Early 19th Century Timeline

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Marbury v. Madison

1801

The Marshall Court

1801 - 1835

The Textile Industry

1814

The Steamboat

1816

Missouri Compromise

1820

Erie Canal

1825

James Fenimore Cooper- The Last of the Mohicans

1826

Theory of Nullification

1828

Jackson becomes President

1829

The Lowell System

1830 - 1840

The Removal Act

1830

The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison

1831

The Taney Court

1835 - 1864

The Trail of Tears

1838

Manifest Destiny began

1840

Nativism began/ mass immigration

1840

Brook Farm

1841 - 1847

The Telegraph

1844

Frederick Douglass's Autobiography is Published

1845

California Gold Rush

1848

Seneca Falls

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848

Compromise of 1850

1850

Transcontinental Railroad

1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852

Gadsden Purchase

1853

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

"Bleeding Kansas"

1855

Dred Scott Case

1857

John Brown's Raid

1859