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Cotton Gin invented
Its was invented by Eli Whitney, the cotton Gin made it easier to manufacture cotton. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Required non-slave states to assist in the returning of escaped slaves. -
Gabriel Prosser's rebellion
There were 50 armed slaves around Richmond, they failed to gain control of the main road to Richmond, and someone tipped of the white's. Prosser and 25 of his followers were executed. -
German Coast Uprising
Several hundred slaves, who were poorly armed, marched on New Orleans. the militia stopped the march and more that 60 slaves died. The head of the leaders were posted on the poles along the Mississippi river as a warning. -
Erie Canal Completed
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. Originally, it ran 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. -
American Temperance Society Founded
The American Temperance Society (ATS) began in Boston on February 13, 1826. It was first called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance. Two Presbyterian ministers co-founded the group. They were Dr. Justin Edwards and the better-known Lyman Beecher. -
Sabbatarian Movement
it was a movement to end mail service on Sundays, as part of
attempts to shut down all non-church activity on those days. -
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Slavery in the upper South declines
The upper South is becoming less tied to the plantations and slavery at this time. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Believed that he saw signs from heaven. He led a small band of followers and he killed his owner the first day. Killed 60 more white people the following 2 days. with the help of slaves the white's manage to capture and kill most of Turner's followers. Turner hides for 2 months and then they find him and kill him along with 30 of his followers -
Black Hawk's War
forced those
tribes to cede land promised them in
an earlier treaty. -
New England Anti-Slavery Society Founded
Believed that abolitionism should be
committed to two goals
Immediatism: A moral commitment to
end slavery immediately
Racial equality -
Massachusetts School Board established
The Massachusetts legislature established the nation’s first state board of education. -
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German/Irish Immigration Boom
Germans and Irish Immigrated to America -
World Anti-Slavery Convention (London)
The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840. It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge -
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Oregon Trail Most Active
Major traveling groups began leaving together for safety in 1842,
and would continue until around 1855. -
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Edmund Ruffin reform
He was a Virginia planter and he promoted the use of marl. -
President James K. Polk
Shared the expansionist visions of
his fellow Democrats -
Texas becomes and individual state
Under the command of Sam Houston the Texan
army, along with volunteers from the American
south, defeated the Mexican army at San Jacinto
and established the independence of Texas -
Mormons migrate to Utah
Led by Brigham Young, the Mormons
established a new community at the Great
Salt Lake in 1846. -
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Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The U.S. gained:
Texas north of the Rio Grande
California
New Mexico (Which included Arizona, Utah and Nevada) -
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
Fort Laramie Treaty
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was signed on September 17, 1851 between United States treaty commissioners and representatives of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. -
Gadsden Purchase
Meeting in Mexico City on December 30, 1853, James Gadsden, U.S. Minister to Mexico, and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, signed the Gadsden Purchase. -
“Know Nothing” Party Active
The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the "Know Nothing" movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s. -
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The Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.