-A-full time army was established.

-U.S. Military Academy and Naval Academy set-up to train military leaders

-The first writtrn plan of government:

Weak central government

Economic issues

No national army

Quarreling among the states

-Daniel Shays and other former Colonial Army soldiers tried to close the Massachusetts courts so they would not lose their farms due to unpaid taxes.-They did not have money for taxes because the U.S. government had not paid them the money they were owed for serving in the army.

-The rebellion was stopped by Massatusetts state troops.

-Land Ordinence of 1785- a plan to measure and divide western lands

-North ordinence of 1787- a plan to govern the area and form new states

-Texas declared its independence from Mexico on March 2,1836.

-Texas became a U.S. state in 1845

Fun Fact: Texas was its own country from when it was freed from Mexico to the time it joined the U.S.

Americans continued to move west on trails like the Oregon

Mormons travled to the Great Salt Lake area to practice their religion freely.

Texas statehood led to a conflict with Mexico over the Texas/Mexico boarder

U.S. defeated Mexico

In 1849 settlers rushed to California in hopes of striking it rich by finding gold.

The called themselves the fourty-niners.

-National Road was the first important highway joining the eastern U.S. and places west of the Appalation Mountains

-Erie Canal was built to ship goods faster and cheaper from NY to Lake Erie

-Steamboats and railroads moved people and goods faster and cheaper

-Samual Slater opened the first spinning mill in the U.S.

-Franis Cabot Lowell developed a system of organizing factories in which all the work for turning cotton into cloth was done in one factory.

-Cyrus McCormick invented a mechanical reaper for harvesting grain.

- John Deere developed the first cast-steel plow.