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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin made it easier and faster to clean cotton.
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Gabriel Prosser and 50 other armed slaves failed to gain control of main road to Richmond because someone tipped off the white authorities. Prosser and 25 of his followers were executed.
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A revolt of black slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans
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The American Temperance Society was founded by evangelicals in order to bring attention to alcohol and its role in social life.
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Attempt by evangelicals to end mail service on Sundays as part of attempt to shut down all non-church activities on Sundays.
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Upper South is becoming less tied to the plantations and slavery at this time, so slave population makes up only half of the total percent it used to.
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A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed 55-65 people, the largest and deadliest slave uprising in U.S. history.
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Founded by William Lloyd Garrison and was the first abolitionist society in the country to really speak out against slavery.
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Sauk, Fox an Potawotami tribes were defeated by the Americans and were forced to cede land that was promised to them in an earlier treaty.
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Texas army defeats Mexican army at San Jacinto and Gen. Santa Anna is captured trying to escape and was forced to sign a treaty recognizing Texas as an independent state
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The Mexican army (4,000 men) annihilated the American defenders (187 men) after Texas declared independence from Mexico. Among the Americans that died were David Crockett and Jim Bowie.
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Established by the Massachusetts legislature. The head of the board (Harace Mann) demanded the state assume central control over schools in the area.
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The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time in 1840. It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
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4.2 million immigrants entered from 1840-1860 and a majority of them were Irish and German.
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Most traveling groups began traveling together through the trail after the panic of 1837. Around 90,000 settlers migrated and about 5,000 died on the way.
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Was a Virginia planter who suggested farmers use Marl and rotate crops. He was known as the Father of soil science.
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Polk was elected as the 11th president of the United States in 1844 and unlike other democratic presidents, he was willing to take Texas in and started war with the Mexicans.
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After Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, was killed in a mob in 1844, the Mormons sought to relocate and found Utah appealing because of the lack of white settlers and its isolated location.
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After the Mexican Army attacked a U.S. fort in Rio Grande, Polk announced to congress that the Mexicans shed American blood on American soil, and congress declared war. After a swift victory for the U.S. because the Mexican Army lacked the modern artillery and naval unit, a treaty was signed to end the war.
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The first convention devoted to women's suffrage and voting rights.
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Treaty signed by Mexico in order to end the Mexican-American war. Off of the treaty, the United States gained Texas north of the Rio Grande, California, and New Mexico (which included Arizona, Utah and Nevada). The U.S. agreed to pay the Mexican government 15 million and grant Mexicans citizenship in the new territories.
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After gold is discovered in 1848, mass immigration moved to California. The population rose from 100,000 to 400,000 during one year. 50% of population was made up of minorities and in 1850 California becomes a free state.
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Passed by United States congress as part of the compromise of 1850 between southern slave holding interests and Northern free Soilers
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The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs tried to draw boundaries for the various tribes offer the 50,000 every year for 50 years (later reduced to 10 years by congress).
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Established the boarders of the lower 48 Sates for the U.S.
