https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb en-us 2021-03-06 16:03:53 UTC 2021-03-06 17:24:02 UTC hello@padlet.com 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276828700 Invented by Eli Whitney. A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. Cotton became  America's leading export.]]> 2021-03-06 16:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276828700 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276830593 The Second Great Awakening spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, sparked a number of reform movements.]]> 2021-03-06 16:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276830593 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276831709

The U.S. Library of Congress is founded on April 24, 1800.

Alexander Hamilton dies following a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr

Thomas Jefferson signs "The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807" into law on March 3, 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade.

]]> 2021-03-06 16:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276831709 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276832149 A more organized, radical and immediate effort to end slavery than earlier campaigns. After escaping from slavery, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement]]> 2021-03-06 16:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276832149 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276832603 A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. doubled their total amount of land for only for $15 million.]]> 2021-03-06 16:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276832603 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276832927 Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase]]> 2021-03-06 16:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276832927 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276833517 The Erie Canal linked Lake Erie and all the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and New York. Its completion helped to speed up the development of the West.]]> 2021-03-06 16:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276833517 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276834064 The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states.]]> 2021-03-06 16:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276834064 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276834418 The election showed in favor of  Andrew Jackson over John Quincy Adams. Shifting the politics to the democratic party.]]> 2021-03-06 16:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276834418 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276834726 Indians were eventually forcibly removed by the United States government in a march to the west that later became known as the Trail of Tears.]]> 2021-03-06 16:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276834726 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276835225 The concept that the United States had a God-given right to claim territory across North America]]> 2021-03-06 16:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276835225 2davisgrace https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276835600 The first women's rights convention in the United States. The meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.]]> 2021-03-06 16:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2davisgrace/1zimg50t4l90owyb/wish/1276835600