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Timeline
1825 - The Erie Canal opens and allows goods to flow between the Great Lakes and New York City.
1828 - Work began on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation’s first commercial railroad.
1830s- Women made up 80% of the textile mill work force in America.
1832 - Cholera Pandemic in New York state caused by water pollution of densely populated urban slums.
1837 - The Panic of 1837- Second Bank of the United states closed, millions of dollars in bank notes, rising business failures, high unemployment rate
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the first functional telegraph.
1828 - Work began on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation’s first commercial railroad.
1830s- Women made up 80% of the textile mill work force in America.
1832 - Cholera Pandemic in New York state caused by water pollution of densely populated urban slums.
1837 - The Panic of 1837- Second Bank of the United states closed, millions of dollars in bank notes, rising business failures, high unemployment rate
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the first functional telegraph.
Image 1 "1830s Textile Mill": http://www.authentichistory.com/1600-1859/2-manifest/
Image 2 "Monroe Railroad 1830s":
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gastudiesimages/Train%201830s%20Monroe%20RR%202.htm
Image 3 "Opening of the Erie Canal": http://www.eriecanal.org/general-1.html
Image 2 "Monroe Railroad 1830s":
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gastudiesimages/Train%201830s%20Monroe%20RR%202.htm
Image 3 "Opening of the Erie Canal": http://www.eriecanal.org/general-1.html
