Interactive Timeline – 1789-1832

correct incorrect Samuel Slater immigrates to United States from England

correct incorrect Jul Congress passes first tariff in the United States

correct incorrect Sep Congress creates U.S. Postal Service

correct incorrect Samuel Slater and Moses Brown found the first mechanized cotton mill in United States

correct incorrect Apr Congress establishes U.S. Patent Office and 14-year monopolies on inventions

correct incorrect Aug Congress votes to fund the U.S. national debt

correct incorrect THE WORLD: First rolling mill powered by steam in England

correct incorrect Alexander Hamilton sends report encouraging domestic manufacturing to Congress

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Paris Academy of Sciences standardizes metric system

correct incorrect Apr Congress establishes U.S. currency system

correct incorrect Jan Eli Whitney demonstrates interchangeable parts by assembling a musket from pieces selected from a pile by President Thomas Jefferson

correct incorrect May Congress encourages U.S. settlement with favorable sales terms in Harrison Land Act

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Italian Alessandro Volta invents the electric storage battery

correct incorrect Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin proposes a comprehensive plan of national canals and roads

correct incorrect Jul Twelfth Amendment to Constitution is ratified

correct incorrect Frederic Tudor uses insulated ships to begin U.S. ice trade abroad

correct incorrect Aug Robert Fulton begins commercial steamboat service on the Hudson River

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British colonies of Sierra Leone and Gambia founded

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar British ejected from Alexandria, Egypt

correct incorrect Oliver Evans installs first steam-powered flour mill in Pittsburgh

correct incorrect Mar Supreme Court decides in Fletcher v. Peck that contracts are sacred and that court can overrule state laws

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Hidalgo's "Grito de Dolores" launches Mexican independence war

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Frenchman François Appert invents canning process to preserve food

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Workers in the Luddite movement riot and destroy textile machinery

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British suffrage activists found Hampden Clubs

correct incorrect Boston Associates incorporate their mill business in Waltham, MA

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Two-sided cylindrical printing press invented in Germany

correct incorrect THE WORLD: London Times begins publication using steam press

correct incorrect Jul Construction on Erie Canal begins

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British workers riot for higher wages in Derbyshire

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Spain opens West Indies to British trade

correct incorrect May Vessel Savannah uses backup steam-power to cross Atlantic

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British establish colony at Singapore

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Parliament passes maximum 12-hour workday for children in Britain

correct incorrect Congress sets minimum price of $1.25 for sale of public lands

correct incorrect William Becknell opens trade from Missouri to New Mexico on Santa Fe Trail

correct incorrect Sep Russia claims exclusive settlement rights in Alaska

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Costa Rica wins independence

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Greek war of independence begins

correct incorrect Mar Supreme Court decides case of Gibbons v. Ogden

correct incorrect Dec When electoral college reveals its votes, no presidential candidate receives a majority

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement in England

correct incorrect Feb House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president

correct incorrect Mar President Adams appoints Henry Clay as secretary of state, part of what their enemies dub "the corrupt bargain"

correct incorrect Jun Britain cuts off U.S. trade to its colonies in the West Indies

correct incorrect Oct Erie Canal is opened with great ceremony

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep First ever passenger railroad opens in England

correct incorrect May Congress passes a trade tax, called by opponents the "Tariff of Abominations"

correct incorrect Dec Andrew Jackson is elected president

correct incorrect South Carolina legislature protests "Tariff Abominations"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Shaka, Zulu king, is assassinated

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Mexico outlaws slavery in Texas, but exempts Stephen Austin's colony

correct incorrect Baltimore & Ohio Railroad becomes first U.S. railroad to carry passengers and freight

correct incorrect Mexico forbids further colonization of Texas by American citizens

correct incorrect THE WORLD: English patent for push lawnmower issued

correct incorrect Cyrus McCormick builds first mechanical reaper, making crops much easier to harvest

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Scotswoman Jane Stewart invents hook-and-eye clothing fastener

correct incorrect Jan Second Bank of the United States president Nicholas Biddle begins the "Bank War" with President Jackson

correct incorrect Sac and Fox Indians return to vacated lands in Illinois, touching off Black Hawk War

correct incorrect Aug Black Hawk's Indians are destroyed in battle on Bad Axe River

correct incorrect Dec Andrew Jackson reelected president

correct incorrect THE WORLD: First French passenger railroad opens