Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1790 Slater's textile mill opens: beginning of the textile industry

1793 Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin: cotton production expands in the lower South

1798 Whitney begins work on a system of interchangeable parts: process of mechanization accelerates

1807 Fulton's Clermont begins regular steamboat service on the Hudson River

1810 Fletcher v. Peck; Supreme Court guarantees enforcement of contracts

1810-1820 Cotton boom begins in the South

1811 First steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans: the western rivers are opened for steam transportation

1813 Waltham system established: all steps in production process done at single site

1816 Second Bank of the United States chartered

Protective tariff enacted: government stimulus to industrialization

1818-1825 Erie Canal constructed: launches the canal age and makes New York City the country's major metropolis

1819 Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Supreme Court protects corporations operating under state charters

McCulloch v. Maryland: constitutionality of the national bank upheld through doctrine of implied powers

1819-1823 Panic and depression

1820 Missouri Compromise enacted: sectional rivalry heightened

Lowell mills established: becomes center of textile industry

1824 Gibbons v. Ogden: Supreme Court establishes federal authority over interstate commerce

1825-1850 Canal era

1830 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins passenger service

1834 National Trades Union founded

1837 Panic

1839-1843 Depression

1844 Samuel F. B. Morse sends first intercity telegraphic message: improved communications

1847 Rotary printing press invented: fast, cheap printing inaugurated

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