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Election of 1800
Jefferson and Burr both had 73 votes, and House of rehabilitation decides it -
Washington DC become New capital
moved from Philadelphia to Washington DC -
Liberty of Congress
Liberty of congress founded -
The first Congressional meeting in DC
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Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. president
1801 - 1809 -
First Barbary war
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John Marshall
John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. -
Treat of Cession, and purchase to the Louisiana
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Louisiana Purchase
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Treaty of Cession
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12th Amendment, and Battle of Sitka
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Burr and Hamilton met on dueling ground in Nj
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Period: to
Embargo in effect
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Election of 1808
Between James Madison and Charles Pickney. Jefferson decided not to run again -
Slave trade ended
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James Madison
4th U.S. president
1809 - 1817 -
Non-intercourse Act
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Period: to
War of 1812
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Declaration of War against Britain
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surrendered Betroit without a shot
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Creek War
United States vs. Creek Indians -
Battle of Lake Erie
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Britain defeated Napoleon
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Treaty of Ghent
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British raid Chesapeake Bay
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Ft McHenry
25 hours of British bombardment Francis Scott Key -
Treaty of Ghent
what Britain does agree, border of Canada -
British attacked New Orleans
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established Second bank of the USA
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Tariff of 1816
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James Monroe
5th U.S. president
1817 - 1825 -
Relationship between U.S. and Britain
Rush-Bagot Pact -
Convention of 1818
between U.S. and Britain -
Panic of 1819
First major depression, poor banking policies -
Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine
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Election of 1824
5 candidates -
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. president
1825 - 1829 -
new Lebanon Convention
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Tariff of 1828
Tariff of Abominations -
Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. president
1829 - 1837 -
Railroad era begins
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Period: to
Zenith
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Cyrus Hall McCormick
bring power to gain harvesting -
Nat Turner's rebellion, and Liberator founded
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Political miscalculaion
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Nullification crisis
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Force Bill
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Whig party formed
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Texas Revolution, and Republic of Texas established
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War of Texas Independence
Texas vs. Mexico -
Martin Van Buren
8th U.S. president
1837 - 1841 -
moved to commerce, IL and renamed Navoo
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Pioneer in employing women
4000 worked -
Cities and Town
126 Towns of 2500 or more -
Manifest Destiny, and Telegraph and railroads create a communications revolution
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William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. president
1841 - 1841 -
John Tyler
10th U.S. president
1841 - 1845 -
James K. Polk
11th U.S. president
1845 - 1849 -
First clipper slip "Rainbow" built for speed
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Mexican - American War - begins
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Mexican War begins
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Cyrus Hall McCormick
Build manufacturer to himself -
Mexican - American War - ends
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Mexican war ended
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo ended Mexican War
U.S. acquires California and territory of New Mexico which includes present-day Nevada, Utah, Arizona, new Mexico, and part of Colorado -
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. president
1849 - 1850 -
Gold discovered in California
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Millard Fillmore
13th U.S. president
1850 - 1853 -
Compromise of 1850, California admitted to the union, and Fugitive Slave Law strengthened
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California admission to the US
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Franklin Pierce
14th U.S. president
1853 - 1857 -
Gadsden Purchase
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Germans
2000 more Germans come to U.S. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Republican Party formed
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Sack of Lawrence, Kansas
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Violence in Kansas, and Senator Sumner attacked in the Senate
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James Buchanan
15th U.S. president
1857 - 1861 -
Minnesota admission to the US
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Oregon admission to the US, Harper's Ferry Raid
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
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Pony Express begins
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Democratic Party splits apart
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Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. president
1861 - 1865 -
Kansas admission to the US
Confederate States of America established under President Jefferson Davis
American Civil War begins at Forth Sumter -
American Civil War - begins
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Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
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Richard Gatling invented the Gatling gun during the American Civil War
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Battle of Antietam
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Battle of Gettysburg
West Virginia admission to the US -
Sand Creek Massacre
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Grant's wilderness campaign Sherman takes Atlanta, and Sherman's "March to the Sea"
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Andrew Johnson
17th U.S. president
1865 - 1869 -
Nevada admission to the USA and U.S. Civil War ends
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American Civil War - ends
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Civil Right Act of 1866
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Charles Goodnight who introduces the concept of the chuck wagon used on cattle drives by cowboys
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Nebraska admission to the US, and Alaska purchase from Russia
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First Reconstruction Act launches Radical Reconstruction, and Alaska purchased
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Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Civil Rights
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. president
1869 - 1877 -
George Westinghouse Invented the air brake system
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Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds
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Terrorism against blacks in South, flourishing of Darwinism and ideas of racial inferiority
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Great Chicago Fire
Treaty of Washington with Great Britain regarding the Dominion of Canada -
Yellowstone National Park established
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Red River Wars
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Civil Right Act 1875
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Battle of Big little Horn
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Nicholaus Otto invents the Internal Combustion Engine
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Carl von Linde invents the refrigerator
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Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone
