Events
Samuel Slater opens his textile mill in Providence, Rhode IslandCongress passes Post Office ActEmbargo Act prohibits trade with Grea BritainAfrican slave trade abolished by CongressBoston Manufacturing Company opens factory in Waltham, MassachusettsGibbons v. Ogdem promotes interstate tradeSouth Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun argues that slavery is a "positive good"Commonwealth v. Hunt legitimizes trade unionsConfederation Congress charters the Bank of North America in PhiladelphiaFederalists in Congress charted the Bank of the United StatesBank of United States charter expired, JEffersonian Republican-dominated Congress refused to renew itNational Republicans in Congress chartered the Second Bank of the United StatesPanic of 1819War of 1812BEginning of construction on a system of canals and roads linking the Atlantic coast with the trans-Appalachian westNY Legislature finances the Erie CanalMichigan and Illinois Canal finishedFulton piloted the first American steamboat the Clermont up the Hudson RiverPost Office Act of 1792Gibbons v. OgdenTelegraph inventedtelegraph line between DC and baltimoreMagnetic Telegraph Company founded to created the first network of telegraph linesWestern Union forms to consolidate smaller companies' telegraph linesWestern Union completes a transcontinental telegraph line from NY to San Franflying shuttle inventedspinning jenyy, water frame, muleSamuel Slater rebuilds advanced British machienry for spinning cotton in U.S., used waterwaysCongress passed tariff on imported cotton/woolen clothCongress passed tariff on imported cotton/woolen clothCongress passed tariff on imported cotton/woolen clothCognress reduces tariffs on cotton/woolen cloth (southern planters, western farmers, and urban consumers had complained)Boston Manufacturing Company Founded (first US factory to do all the clothmaking steps under one roof)Sellars Family and more founded the Franklin Institute in PhiladelphiaNational Trades Union (first regional union of different trades)Commonwealth v HuntPeriods
Gradual emancipation of slaves in the NorthNatural increase produces surplus of slaves in Old South; domestic slave trade expandsCongress levies protective tariffsConstruction of the Erie CanalUrban population surges in the Northeast and Midwest, New England women take textile jobs, entrepreneurial planters in Cotton South turn to gang laborFrench Revolution and NapoleonConstruction of National Road (approved by Congress)Industrial RevolutionMarket RevolutionLots of importation of enslaved africans until congress outlawes the Atlantic slave tradeAmericans illegally import African slaves through Mexican land like Florida and texasincrease in Domestic slave tradeRising number of patents (200 to 4,000/year)
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