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Thomas Jefferson Elected
Thomas Jefferson was elected -
War of 1812
war hawks lead America into a war with Britain over Jay's Treaty
It creates a sense of nationalism and legitimizes the USA -
McCulloch v. Maryland
a court case that occurred when Maryland tried to tax the national bank to death. It established that the federal government has more power than the states do -
Missouri Compromise
It was a boarder on Missiouri, every state above the line was a slave free state and every state below the line was slave states. It started problems because what if the slaves left and went across the line, are they free ? -
Andrew Jackson Elected
Andrew Jackson was elected -
The Liberator Begins publication
American abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. -
Nullification Crisis
It was a protective tariff established by the government. It lead to a fight when South Carolina refused to pay theirs -
Tocqueville Publishes Democracy in America
It was a book by a Frenchman that observed America's societal changes and shifts in democracy. IT showed what other countries thought of the American democratic revolution -
Emerson publishes self-reliance
It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency -
Dorothea dix visits her first jail with insane inmates
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Frederick Dougless publishes his autobiogragphy
This is when Dougless published his life being a slave. -
Seneca falls convention
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Fugitive slave act
It allowed Southerners to retrieve their runaway slaves from the North forces.The Northerners to recognize the reality of what is going on -
Uncle Toms Cabin
It was a bestselling novel about an escaped slave mother and her son, by white author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It creates sympathy among white people -
Thoreau publishes walden
It is a book written by Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. -
whitman publishes leaves of grass
The book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures. -
Dred Scott decision
a slave who sues his owner because he isn't freed after moving north. Scott technically wins, but a law is passed preventing slaves from going to court -
John Brown Attack's Harper's Ferry
He believes he is God's sword of vengeance against slavery
It made a failed attempt to raid the Harper's Ferry weaponry and is eventually hanged. It also made white Northerners turn him into an abolitionist martyr -
Abraham Lincoln Elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected -
Civial War Begins
The start of the Civial war
