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| 1790 | Samuel Slater opens his cotton mill in Providence, R.I. |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney manufactures cotton gins |
| 1807 | Robert Fulton builds Clermont |
| 1810 | Fletcher v. Peck expands contract clause |
| 1814 | Waltham (Lowell) system is born |
| 1817 | New York Stock Exchange founded Erie Canal begins |
| 1819 | McCulloch v. Maryland enhances power of federal government Dartmouth College v. Woodward protects corporate property rights First cast-iron plow is invented Panic of 1819 |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1824 | John Quincy Adams wins disputed election Gibbons v. Ogden |
| 1825 | Erie Canal completed |
| 1830 | Baltimore & Ohio becomes first American railroad company |
| 1831 | McCormick invents mechanical reaper |
| 1834 | Women workers at Lowell mills stage first strike |
| 1837 | Financial panic |
| 1844 | Baltimore-Washington telegraph line |
| 1849 | California gold rush |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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