Francis Cabot Lowell Waltham System In 1818 the
Francis Cabot Lowell
Waltham System
In 1818 the first weekly transatlantic packet ship began with the “Black Ball” Line, known for a black ball on its sails.
Regularly scheduled transatlantic voyages spread, especially just after the early national period, in 1845, with the new “clipper Ships”
Early railroad
By the end of the early national period, inventor Samuel Morse was experimenting with magnets and later invented the magnetic telegraph and “Morse Code” in 1840 s.
By 1836 the new steam boats had begun to make St, Louis grow tremendously
New York City in 1836 continued its urban dominance
Castle Gardens processed immigrants in NYC
In 1837 John Deere invented the steeltipped plow
Steel plow
By 1836 there were almost one thousand regular newspapers in the US
Steam-powered rotary press
Theaters blossomed in 1836
Racist “black-faced” minstrels began in 1830 s
Cyrus Mc. Cormick
Mc. Cormick’s reaper
Anti-union cartoon showing trade unions in unsympathetic manner
Flier for the Working Men’s Party
Sports were becoming popular as games like tennis developed
Alexis de Tocqueville
Romantic Movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Cole
Cole’s painting of fall of civilization
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper
Mother Ann Lee Stanley
Shaker Movement
American Temperance Union
Efforts to reform prison conditions began in 1830 s
Joseph Smith
Multiple wives in polygamy
Stephen F. Austin
General Santa Anna
Alamo
Sam Houston
Battle of San Jacinto
“Lone Star Republic” = The Republic of Texas
Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar
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