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1808 |
Congress bans further importation of slaves |
1842 |
Massachusetts declares unions legal in |
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1822 |
Thirty-seven slaves are executed when Denmark |
Commonwealth v. Hunt | |
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Vesey’s “conspiracy” is exposed |
1846 |
Elias Howe invents sewing machine | |
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1825 |
Erie Canal is completed, connecting the East and |
1850 |
Congress grants land to aid construction of Illinois |
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The Midwest |
Central Railroad | ||
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1830 |
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins operation |
1854 |
Clipper ship Flying Cloud sails from New York to |
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1831 |
Nat Turner’s slave uprising kills fifty-seven whites |
San Francisco in eighty-nine days | |
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1837 |
Cyrus Hall McCormick invents reaper to |
1857 |
Brief economic depression (Panic of 1857) |
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Harvest wheat |
Collapses economy | ||
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1839 |
John Deere begins manufacturing steel plows | ||
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1840- |
Economy surges during boom in manufacturing, | ||
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1857 |
Railroad construction, and foreign commerce |
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