Events
John Deere invents
steel plow (1837)Cyrus McCormick makes
mechanical mower-reaper
(1831)Lancaster Turnpike in Penn
built (1795)Cumberland Road
started (1811)Clermont goes from
NYC → Hudson Riv
toward Albany (1807)Sultana blows up
(Apr 1865)Erie Canal begins (1817)1st US Railroad
built (1828)NY Legis prohibited
railroads from carrying
freight (1833)Cyrus Field connects
Newfoundland + Ireland
(1858)Cyrus Field successfully connects
Newfoundland + Ireland
(1866)Panic of 1819Panic of 1837Savannah crosses Atlantic
(1819)Pony Express est
(1860)Morse code messages get to
Cali (1861)1/2 of pop
still <30
(1850)George Catlin observes NAmer
killing buffalo for whiskey
(1832)Yellowstone Park est
(Mar 1872)Boston pioneers
sewer system
(1823)Demographic center of US past
Ohio Riv (1840)33 states in union,
other pop landmarks
(1860)NY makes
piped-in water
supply (1842)Failed German democratic
uprising (Mar 1848)est of "Know-Nothing"
Party (1849)Awful Disclosures
(1836)Catholic covenant near
Boston burned by mob
(early 1834)Irish Catholics fought
against “nativists” for
several days in Philly
(1844)Slater makes 1st US
machinery for spinning
cotton (1791)Eli Whitney builds cotton gin
(1793)peace in Ghent (1815)Protective tariff of 1816Whitney makes standardized
assembly for guns
(1798)Sewing machine invented
by Elias Howe (1846)Morse tests his wire
from Washington to
Baltimore (1844)London's World Fair
(1851)President Martin Van Buren
est 10-hour day for fed
employees in public works
(1840)Commonwealth v Hunt
(1842)Periods
Influx of immigrants to US x3
(1840s)Influx of immigrants to US x4
(1850s)Wages rise 1% per year
(1820-1860)
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