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Second Great Awakening
Religious revival among black and white Southerners in the 1790s. Free African Americans founded their own independant churches and demoninations. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is ratified. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney and Catherine Green made the cotton gin which made it possible to clean up to 50 pounds of cottons a day. Made cotton a very profitable crop. -
First African American Baptist and Methodist churches
The first African American Baptist and Methodist churches were founded in Philadelphia by the Reverend Absalom Jones and the Reverand Richard Allen. -
The Whiskey Rebellion
Poor framers didn't want to pay excise tax. Washington used an army of 13,000 men to put them down. -
Treaty of Greenville
Treaty in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the U.S. -
Jay's Treaty
Treaty with Britian in which the U.S. made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships. -
Adams Elected
John Adams elected as president with Thomas Jefferson as vice president. -
Gabriel's Rebellion
Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, Virginia -
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson buys a large amount of land from France for small sum of money. -
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Lewis and Clark
They charted the Louisiana territory and were the first Americans to reach the Pacific over land. -
Virginia Tightens Laws
Virginia tightens laws on manumission of slaves. Thre freed slave was required to leave the state within a year or be sold back into slavery. -
End of International Slave Trade for U.S.
A bill to abolish the importation of slaves became law. Marking the end of the U.S.'s participation in the international slave trade. Small numbers of slaves were still smuggled in from Africa. -
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Alabama Fever
In one of the swiftest migrations in American history, white Southerners and their slaves flooded into western Georgia and the areas that would become Alabama and Mississppi. -
Monroe as President
James Monroe is elected president -
Second Bank of U.S.
Congress charters Second Bank of the United States -
MIssouri Compromise
Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. -
Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy
The most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and 75 conspirators were executed. -
Monroe Doctrine
Declaration by President James Monroe that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the U.S. would not interfere in the internal affairs of Europea nations. -
Indian Removal Act
President Andrew Jackson's measure that allowed state officials to override federal protection of Native Americans. It appropriated funds for relocation of the Indians. -
The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison begons publishing antislavery newspaper. -
Nat Turner's Revolt
Uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner that resulted in the death of 55 white people. -
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Flush Times
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Nullification Crisis
Sectional crisis in the early 1830s in which a states' rights party in South Carolina attemped to nullify federal law. -
British Eliminate Slavery
Action of the British Government eliminating slavery on sugar plantations in the West Indies. -
Charleston Crowd Burns
A crowd broke into Charleston post office, made off with bundles of antislavery literature, and set an enormous bonfire, to fervent state and regional acclaim. -
Tightening of Black Codes
In the South the state legislatures tightened black codes-laws concerning free black people. Free African Americans could not carry firearms, could not purchase slaves, and were liable to the criminal penalties meted out to slaves. They couldn't testify against whites, hold office, vote, or serve in the militia. -
Gag Rule
Southners introduced a ''gag rule'' in Washington to prevent congressional consideration of abolitionist petitions. -
Slavery Is Not Evil
James Henry Hammond, a South Carolina congressman, delivered a major address to Congress in which he denied that slavery was evil. Instead he claimed that it had produced "the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth." -
Republic of Texas
U.S. recognizes the Republic of Texas. -
Trail of Tears
The forced march of the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Georgia to the Indian Territory in the West. They were escorted by a 7,000-man army and thousands died along the way. -
The Amistead Case
Thirty-six African slaves comitted mutiny and were tried for murder on the high seas. The court ruled that under Spanish law,the Mendians were considered free men and were sent back to Africa -
Tariff Bill
It raised the tariffs back to the 1832 status. -
Oregon Trail
A 2,000-mile historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between. -
Model Textile Mill
William Gregg opens a model textile mill in Graniteville, South Carolina. He was convinced that textile factories were a good way to diversify the southern economy and provide jobs for the poor whites who couldn't find work in the slave-dominated employment system. -
Sociology for the South
George Fitzhugh publishes Sociology for the South, a defense of slavery. -
The Impending Crisis
Hinton Helper published an attack on slavery in The Impending Crisis
