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| 1830 |
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America has over 50,000 mills with machinery driven by waterpower. |
| Louis Godey publishes the Lady's Book, the first successful women's magazine in the United States. | ||
| 1831 |
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Nat Turner leads a revolt of enslaved African Americans in Southampton County, Virginia. |
| William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, to encourage the end of enslavement. | ||
| Steam locomotive DeWitt Clinton pulls ornate railroad coaches filled with passengers on a 12 mile journey between Albany and Schenectady, New York. | ||
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Cyrus McCormick invents a labor-saving mechanical reaper, allowing farmers to harvest grain more efficiently. | |
| 1832 | The first school for the blind opens in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| 1833 | The first national abolitionist organization, the American Anti-Slavery Society, is formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| 1834 |
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Henry Blair, the first African American to receive a patent, invents a corn planter. |
| 1835 | Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville writes a report on American society, Democracy in America, after traveling 7,000 miles throughout the United States. | |
| 1836 |
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Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and 200 Texans are killed when the Alamo, a fort in San Antonio, Texas, is captured by Mexican leader Santa Anna. |
| 1837 | A mob attacks and kills abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy in his newspaper office in Alton, Illinois. | |
| John Deere creates a steel-bladed plow that turns moist soil with ease, contributing to the expansion of farming in the midwest and western United States. | ||
| 1838 |
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"Trail of Tears" claims 4,000 lives as 15,000 Cherokee Native Americans are forced to leave their lands in Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, and travel to new lands in Oklahoma. |
| 1839 | American farmers grow over 84,000,000 bushels of wheat. | |
| Charles Goodyear invents a process for vulcanizing rubber, hardening the naturally sticky substance for use in many different products. | ||
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The era of photography begins in the United States, as Louis Daguerre's process for capturing photographic images is introduced. |
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