Time Line: Chapters 7-13

Michelle Ririe, Cole Christensen, Gerri Cox, Anju Bohora, Spencer Birth, Yue Zhao, Kia Chiang, Rene Orozco
The late 1700s and early 1800s had many major events occur that helped shape our country and its development.
Below is a timeline of many of these events.

1688
1758

Early voice against slavery was ridiculed

First Actions taken socially to compel conformity to abolitionist arguments
The Common Law
Paper Money
Wealth

1780
1782
2
1783

Articles of Confederation
Massachusetts policy
Ship Production
Flour Mill
The Dollar

1784

Rhode Island and Connecticut passed gradual emancipation laws.

1786

Trade Regulations

1787

The Middle Colonies

The Constitution
The Northwest Land Ordinance forbade slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Migration
The Bill of Rights
The First Organized Bank of the United States
The Bank of the United States
Cotton Textiles

1793

French and English Wars

Eli Whitney
Emergence of US factories
Commercial Boom

1799

New York passed a gradual emancipation law.

18001860

Population Boom
Marital Status
Unions
Transportation Revolution
Courts

1804

New Jersey adopted a policy of gradual emancipation.

1805

Antiquated Ruling

1807

Embargo Act
Congress prohibited the foreign slave trade
Steamboat Clermont

1808

Steamboat New Orleans

Gallatins Plan

1809

Constutional Compromise
Non-Importation Act

1811
1812
1814

National Road-
The War of 1812
The Treaty of Ghent
Power Loom

18151843

1816

Canal Building Era

Debt from the War

Black Ball Line

1817
1818
18201860

1820
1825

The Design change of Sailing Ships

Wages
Missouri Compromise
Erie Canal
Slave distribution in Western.

1826

The Mainline of the Pennsylvania Public Works

1828

Railroads

1830

End of the Turnpike Era

1837

Economical Decrease
American Clipper Ann Mckim

1832
18381852
1840
1842

The Plank Road

Concerns for Industrial Safety and Consumer Protection
The Telegraph
Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw

18431860

Second wave of canal building

18451860

Immigration
Change in Labor Force
10-hour day
Public Opinion

1848
1849
1850

Gold
Gold Rush
Textile Factories
Connecticut General Incorporation Act
Political compromises
Antislavery movement in the North became irresistible

1854
1857

Republican Party gained strength

Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision

1858

Abraham Lincolns speech

Production Increase

1860

Stephenson Gauge-
African slave trade ended.

Slavery Population Growth

Regional income
The wealth held in slaves in the South
Slaves numbered almost 4 million
Post-Civil War
Voting

1863

Tariffs

1866

The Transatlantic Cable

1888

Brazil, the last American bastion of slavery abolished it.