Documents in Year 1830                     

Links of Interest:

• Andrew Jackson, Seventh U.S. President

(1829-1837)

• U.S. Census Overview 1830

• U.S. Census Fast Facts 1830

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• Education:

  Common School Movement

"The period from 1830 to 1865 has been designated the age of the common school movement in American educational history.  During this period, the American educational system as we know it today began to take form. Between 1830 and 1860, 1,220,178 square miles of territory were added to the United States. During the same period, the population exploded from 13 million to 32 million. Of this growth, 4 million came from immigration."

Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 130-131 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1831 for next event...

• Native Americans:

After Jackson's election his first priority is Westward Expansion. The population is almost doubling every twenty years. President Jackson introduces a plan called the "Indian Removal Act" despite Congressman Davy Crockett's opposition. After five months of debate in Congress it passes by four votes and President Jackson signs it into law in May 1830. The Indian Removal Act forces 50,000 Native Americans from five tribes (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole) to leave their ancestral homes and relocate 600 miles west to Indian Territory (Oklahoma today). Over the next two decades the Native Americans are relocated. Over 16,000 die on the journey. It is known as the Trail of Tears.

Source:

The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen

• Westward Expansion:

Santa Fe Trail from 1830-1879 Americans start moving to Mexican Territory (Texas today).

Baltimore and Ohio (B&O)

Railroad opened in 1830 as the first public railway in the United States. The first section contained 26 miles of track from Baltimore to Ellicott, Maryland. The cars were originally pulled by horses until the first steam locomotive "Tom Thumb" took over. Extensions to the railroad continued to be built and finally reached the Ohio River near Moundsville, West Virginia in 1852.

• Fur Trade

Rocky Mountain Fur Company, started by General Ashley was sold to Captain Sublette and Robert Campbell in 1830 and competed with American Fur Company, started by Mr. Astor and managed by Mr. Ramsay Crooks.  (Irving 31).  Source: Irving, Washington. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. G.P. Putnam and Son, New York, 1868. Originally published in 1837.