• The Second Great Awakening

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    Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act

  • First commercial steamboat service on Hudson River

  • Period: to

    Presidency of James Madison

  • Transportation Revolution

  • Industrial Revolution

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Madison signed declaration of War of 1812

  • Battle of Horseshoe Bend

  • Francis Scott Key composed The Star Spangled Banner

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • First Seminole War

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    Presidency of James Monroe

  • Panic of 1819

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Texas gained independence from Spain

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Texas declared itself a separate state within Mexico

  • Erie Canal completed

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    Presidency of John Quincy Adams

  • Evangelical ministers organized the American Temperance Society

  • First long-distance rail line in America

  • Tariff of 1828

  • Petticoat Affair

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Andrew Jackson

  • Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon

  • Indian Removal Act

  • William Garrison established The Liberator

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • The Bank War

  • Blank Hawk War

  • Ten-Hour Movement

  • Period: to

    Second Seminole War

  • Period: to

    Texas Revolutioin

  • Unitarian ministers founded the Transcendental Club

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Martin Van Buren

  • Trail of Tears

  • Potato Famine

    (Ireland)
  • Period: to

    Presidency of William Henry Harrison

  • Period: to

    Presidency of John Tyler

  • Period: to

    Presidency of James K. Polk

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Zachary Taylor

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Millard Fillmore

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Franklin Pierce

  • The Gadsden Purchase

  • Period: to

    Presidency of James Buchanan

  • Congress created the nation's first currency

  • Period: to

    A War for Union

    (First part of Civil War)
  • Period: to

    Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

  • First Confiscation Act

  • Second Confiscation Act

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Congress passed the first national income tax

  • Period: to

    The Civil War

  • Period: to

    A War for Emancipation

    (Second part of Civil War)
  • Period: to

    Reconstruction of the entire United States

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Andrew Johnson

  • Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment

  • Lincoln was assassinated at Ford Theatre

  • Ku Klux Klan formed and organized in Pulaski, Tennessee

  • The House of Representatives approved the Fourteenth Amendment

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    Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

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    Enforcement Acts

  • Depression of 1873