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2.  Up to the Industrial Revolution

Three major trends in the 1800s: Expansion (E) Slavery vs. Freedom (F) Industrialization (I)

                  Timeline of United States History   (1492-1935)
By Mr. Stanley, available http://www.serve.com/ushistory/timeline.htm

*Covered in the movie “Growth of A Nation” – we won’t cover in class

1787- Constitutional Convention
1789- George Washington's Inauguration
1791- Bill of Rights adopted
1793- Eli Whitney's cotton gin (I)
1794- Whiskey Rebellion
1796- Washington's Farewell Address
1800- Capitol moved to Washington, D.C.

*1803- *Louisiana Purchase (E)
1805- Lewis and Clark Expedition (E)
1808- Slave importation prohibited (F)
*1812- *Congress, led by the "War Hawks," declares war on Britain (E)
*1814- *Washington, D.C. burned and Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner"
*1815- *Battle of New Orleans and Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 (E)
*1818- *49^th Parallel agreed as north boundary of US (E)
1820a- *Missouri Compromise (F)

1820b- missionaries from New England arrive in the Hawaiian Islands (E)
1822- Opening of the Erie Canal (E)
1823- Monroe Doctrine (E)
1826- Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 4th of July
1827- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad incorporated (I)
1831- Nat Turner's slave rebellion (F)
1834- McCormick's reaper is patented (I)
1835- Liberty Bell cracks tolling for John Marshall's death

*1836- *"Remember the Alamo!" and the Republic of Texas is formed (E)
*1838- *15,000 Mormons driven out of Missouri
*1843- *The start of the "Great Migration" on the Oregon Trail (E)
1844- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph and sends the first message "What hath God wrought!" (I)
1845- The inauguration of President Polk signals the beginning of "Manifest Destiny" (E)
*1846- *Mexican War begins (E)

*1846b- *the "Bear Flag Revolt" occurs in California (E)

*1847a- *Mexico City conquered (E)

*1847b- *Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young reach Great Salt Lake (E)
*1848a- *Gold is discovered in California (E)

*1848b- *Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ends the Mexican War (E)
*1849- *The Gold Rush begins in force with more than 50,000 miners heading to California (E)
*1850- *California in as the 31st state (E)
1851- Second National Women's Rights Convention held (F)

1852- Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin (F)
1853- Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan (E)

*1853- *Gadsen Purchase rounds out the continental U.S. (E)
*1854- *Kansas-Nebraska Act (F)
1855- Treaty of Kanagawa opens Japan to foreign trade (E)
1857- Dred Scott v. Sandford
1858- Lincoln-Douglas Debates (F)
1859- John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (F)
*1860- *Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th President and South Carolina secedes (F)
*1861- *Fort Sumter and First Bull Run (F)
*1862- *Antietam and Fredricksburg and the Emancipation Proclamation (F)
*1863- *Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Gettysburg Address (F)
*1864- *Sherman's March to the Sea and Lincoln is reelected (F)
*1865a- *Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox (F)

*1865b- *President Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth (F)
*1867- Alaska purchased from Russia　(Seward’s Folly)

1868- President Johnson is impeached, but he is not removed from office
*1869- Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory Point, UT. (E)
1870- Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator (F)
1872- Susan B. Anthony is arrested while attempting to vote. (F)
*1875- Black Hills' gold rush in Dakota Territory (E)
*1876- Custer's Last Stand (E)
1878- Thomas Edison patents the phonograph (I)
1879a- California outlaws the employment of Chinese workers

1879b- Edison invents the light bulb (I)
1881- The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton
1882- Chinese Exclusion Act
1884- Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885- The Washington Monument is dedicated and the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City.
1886- The Haymarket Riot; and the American Federation of Labor is founded with Samuel Gompers as president. (I)
1889- The Oklahoma land rush (E)
1890a- Sherman Antitrust Act (I)

1890b- Wounded Knee Massacre (E)
1891- Thomas Edison patents his moving picture camera (I)
1894- The Pullman Strike and its leader, Eugene V. Debs, is sent to prison (I)
1895- The first automobile race is run from Chicago to Evanston, IL (I)
1896- The election of William McKinley ends the cry for a silver standard (I)

1897- The Socialist Party is formed by Eugene V. Debs, he will run for President five times (I)
*1898- U.S.S. Maine is sunk and Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill as the U.S. wins the Spanish-American War (E)
1899- The Open Door Policy is proposed by John Hay (E)
1901a- J.P. Morgan's United States Steel Corp. is first billion dollar industry (I)

1901b- President McKinley is assassinated
1902- President Roosevelt helps settle rather than break a coal miner strike (I)
1903- Wright brothers fly the first plane at Kitty Hawk, NC (I)
1904- U.S. granted the Panama Canal Zone (E)
1905- Roosevelt negotiates an end to the Russo-Japanese War
1906- The great San Francisco earthquake

1907- Roosevelt sends out the Great White Fleet to demonstrate American naval power (E)
1908- Ford Motor Company introduces the Model-T; cost-$850 (I)
1911- Standard Oil Co. and the American Tobacco Co. are broken up by the Sherman Antitrust Act (I)
1912- The Titanic sinks killing over 1,500 people
1914- Clayton Antitrust Act (I)