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Much of Britain's favored position came from the English Revolution of the 1600's and the triumph of a wealthy middle class with both the money and willingness to invest in new ventures. This created five basic lines of development that together would trigger the Industrial Revolution.
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Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton.
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Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. Paine's original work was published in two parts in 1794 and 1795, titled Part First and Part II, and it sold very well in America.
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Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.
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Robert Fulton invented the first successful steamboat - the Clermont.
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A society established on February 13, 1826 in Boston, MA. Within five years there were 2,220 local chapters in the U.S.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828
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Raised tariff on imported manufactured goods
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Authorized President Jackson to negotiate with the Native Americans in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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A protectionist tariff in the United States.
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Political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the Andrew Jackson administration.
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An estimated 150 battles, skirmishes, raids, and military engagements between Mormons and other settlers in Sanpete County, Sevier County and other parts of central and southern Utah.
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The Tariff of 1833 was proposed by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis.
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Organizations that sponsored public programs and entertainments, flourished in the mid-19th century, particularly in the northeast and middle west, and some lasted until the early 20th century.
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An executive order issued by U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and carried out by succeeding President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold.
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No other bill to renew the Bank's charter was presented to Jackson, and so the Second Bank of the United States expired in 1836.
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Financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time. The panic had both domestic and foreign origins.
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A utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s.
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The Oneida Community was a religious commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York.
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The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.
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The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States.
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels.
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Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
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Express mail carried by relays of riders on horseback; especially between Missouri and California around 1860.
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A milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the United States of America. It served as the only method of near-instantaneous communication between the east and west coasts during the 1860s.