1800-1876

By nashd.2021

  • Thomas Jefferson Elected President

  • Louisiana Purchase

    U.S. bought 828,000 square miles of land from France.

  • Lewis and Clark

    They begin exploring in 1804 and return in 1806.

  • James Madison Elected President

  • Congress Declares War with England

    Congress declares war.

  • British Attacks Washington

    British attacks Washington and burns the Capitol and Library of Congress down.

  • James Monroe elected President

  • Florida Purchased

    Purchased from Spain.

  • The Savannah Crossing the Atlantic

    The first steamboat to cross the Atlantic.

  • Monroe Doctrine Signed

    Declares the U.S. will not tolerate the European interference in the Western Hemisphere.

  • John Quincy Adams Elected President

  • Erie Canal Completed

  • Started Construction of First Railroad

    Constructed in Baltimore-Ohio in the U.S.

  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

  • Martin Van Buren Elected President

  • William Henry Harrison Elected President

  • John Tyler Elected President

  • Telegraph Invented

    Samuel Moore sends the first telegraph from Washington to Baltimore, reading "What hath God wrought?"

  • James K. Polk Elected President

  • U.S.- Mexican War

    Ended in February 1848.

  • California Gold Rush

  • First Women's Rights Convention in America

    First convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York

  • Zachary Taylor Elected President

  • Millard Fillmore Elected President

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is Written

    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

  • Franklin Pierce Elected President

  • James Buchanan Elected President

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected President

    Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president

  • Civil War Begins

    Ended April 9, 1865.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Abolished Slavery in America

  • Gettysburg Address

    A speech Abraham Lincoln delivered during the Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    John Wilkes Booth kills Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.

  • Andrew Johnson Elected President

  • Buying Alaska

    U.s. buys Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million

  • Ulysses S. Grant Elected President

  • Railroad Completed

    First Continental Railroad is complete

  • Invention of the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone