Timeline: The Growing Years

Timelines & Date Keys for
Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 4: The Growing Years

Use this page to help you complete the corresponding timeline in Fasttrack to America's Past. Limited reproduction rights are granted to teachers and students - please see details below.

Timeline: The Growing Years American history 1800 to 1860

Dates for the events shown:

Jefferson elected - 1800
Louisiana Purchase - 1803
Lewis and Clark expedition - 1804-06
First steamboat - 1807
War of 1812 - 1812
Factories grow in Lowell, Mass. - 1820s
Erie Canal opens - 1825
First railroad in U.S. - 1830
Indian Removal Act - 1830
The Liberator begins - 1831
Texas declares independence - 1836
Telegraph demonstrated - 1844
Mexican War begins - 1846
Women's Rights Convention - 1848
Calif. Gold Rush - 1849
Uncle Tom's Cabin published - 1852
John Brown's raid - 1859
Lincoln elected - 1860

Copyright Notice - Limited Reproduction Rights

This timeline is posted here for users of our book, Fasttrack to America's Past, and to help all teachers and students of American history. You may download the completed timeline shown above to transparency film, to paper, or to computer media for noncommercial educational use only, provided:

You make no changes, additions, or alterations of any kind.
You leave the copyright and source information visible and legible on all copies.

   You may not post these timelines in any form on any other web site, or use them in any commercial product. You may provide a link from your personal, class, or school web site to this page or this site's home page, if you wish.

   If printing, set your web browser's print menu to 100 percent size for best image quality, and set all margins at .25 inches.

   We hope your school will consider purchasing our book, Fasttrack to America's Past, for your students. The book contains interactive maps, charts, timelines, topic summary pages, primary source readings, and many other resources to help students in their studies of America's story. It is widely used at the secondary level, is very affordable, and has earned a reputation as "The history book that students ask to keep."

   Please see the link to our products on the home page.