1800-1876

By JohnCassetta

  • Lousianna Purchase

    Territory purchased from France for 15 million dollars

  • Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton

    Burr challenged Hamilton, who couldn't refuse but didn't shoot at Burr, Burr kills Hamilton

  • 1804 Presidential Election

    Thomas Jefferson reelected

  • 12th Amendment Added

    Vice-President no longer second highest in votes, they run as a bill with the president

  • 1808 Presidential Election

    James Madison elected

  • 1st Bank of the United States' Charter Expires

    Led to war of 1812

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Led by William Henry Harrison, caused by British attempts to make Indians attack America, leads to War of 1812

  • 1812 Presidential Election

    James Madison reelected
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    War of 1812

    Forced Native Americans to relinquish land

  • Treaty of Ghent

    Officially ended war of 1812, though the fighting didn't end immediately

  • Tariff of 1816

    Placed high duties on import of English cotton cloth

  • 2nd Bank of the United States Established

    Nearly bankrupt by 1819

  • 1816 Presidential Election

    James Monroe elected

  • Panic of 1819

    2nd Bank of United States had poor banking policies, but saved by Langdon Cheves

  • 1820 Presidential Election

    James Monroe reelected

  • Tariff of 1824

  • 1824 Presidential Election

    John Quincy Adams elected after corrupt bargain

  • Erie Canal Completed

    Built for ease of transportation, instant success

  • Sojourner Truth Walks to Freedom

    Later becomes a Perfectionism preacher

  • 1828 Presidential Election

    Andrew Jackson elected

  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of Abominations, enraged South
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    Bank War

    Andrew Jackson's campaign to shut down the 2nd Bank of the United States

  • Indian Removal Act of 1830

    Granted land to native Americans to get them to leave and move to Kansas or Oklahoma

  • Joseph Smith Publishes Book of Mormon

    Starts Mormonism

  • Charles Finney's Career Zenith

    Preaches 98 sermons in under a year

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Turner and his supporters slaughter their masters and many other whites in the area, Turner executed

  • 1832 Presidential Election

    Andrew Jackson reelected

  • American Anti-Slavery Society Founded

    Primary founder was William Lloyd Garrison

  • Treaty of Echota

    Treaty made with a minor Cherokee faction which forced the removal of all Cherokees

  • 1836 Presidential Election

    Martin Van Buren elected, first president of Dutch ancestry

  • Panic of 1837

    Likely caused by Jackson's shutdown of the 2nd Bank of United States

  • Oneida Community

    Perfectionist community, residents practiced complex marriage

  • American Slavery as it is Published

    Written by Grimke sisters

  • 1840 Presidential Election

    William Henry Harrison elected, Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign, Harrison dies in office almost immediately, John Tyler succeeds him

  • Treatise on Domestic Economy Published

    Written by Catherine Beecher
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    Brook Farm

    A transcendentalist community, economic failure however, and burned in 1846

  • 1844 Presidential Election

    James K. Polk elected

  • First Clipper Ship Built

    Named Rainbow, built for speed

  • Texas Enters United States

    28th state

  • Battle of Buena Vista

    Battle in American-Mexican War, U.S. troops nearly defeated

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    U.S. pays 15 million dollars for over a third of Mexico's territory

  • 1848 Presidential Election

    Zachary Taylor Elected

  • Compromise of 1850

    5 separate laws, angered South

  • Moby Dick Published

    Written by Herman Melville

  • Life in the Woods Published

    Written by Henry David Thoreau, about his time living alone in a cabin

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • 1852 Presidential Election

    Franklin Pierce elected

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Led to Bleeding Kansas
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    Bleeding Kansas

    Chaotic political battle over whether Kansas should be a free or slave state

  • 1856 Presidential Election

    James Buchanan elected

  • 1860 Presidential Election

    Abraham Lincoln elected

  • 1864 Presidential Election

    Abraham Lincoln reelected

  • 1868 Presidential Election

    Ulysses S. Grant elected

  • 1872 Presidential Election

    Ulysses S. Grant reelected

  • 1876 Presidential Election

    Rutherford B. Hayes elected, one of the most controversial elections in history