1800-1876

  • Election of Thomas Jefferson

  • Britain and Napolean go to war

  • Treaty of Lession

    Thomas Jefferson used the treaty of Lession to obtain the Louisiana Territory
  • Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton Duel

  • Presidential Election of James Madison

  • Creation of the 12th Amendment

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Declaration of War against Britain

  • Battle of Detroit

    America surrendered without a shot
  • Battle of Lake Erie

    America won
  • British defeat Napoleon

    This allows Britain to focus on America
  • Panic of 1819

    First Major Depression
  • John Quincy Adams Elected President

  • Tariff of 1828

  • Andrew Jackson Elected

  • Nat Turners Rebellion

  • Force Bill

  • Martin Van Buren Elected President

  • Panic of 1837

    Financial Crisis
  • Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!!!

    John Henry Tyler Elected as President
  • Reduced Tariffs

    Tariff rates reduced to levels of 1816 by 1842
  • The first organized wagon train leaves for Oregon

  • James k. Polk Elected President

  • Texas Becomes 28th State

  • Battle of Beuna Vista

  • Compromise of 1850

    Included the Fugitive Slave Act, admitted California as a state, Resolved boundary disputes, abolished slave trade in DC, and established government in New Mexico
  • Franklin Pierce Elected President

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Nebraska was made a free state, but Kansas was more complicated
  • James Buchanan Elected President

  • Dred Scott vs. Stanford

    Chief Justice Roger Taney declares that Negros -slave or free- could not be citizens of the United States
  • Confedarate Staes of America Elect Jefferson Davis as their President

  • Civil War Begins

    General P. G. T. Beauregard fires upon Fort Sumter
  • The Civil War Ends

    General Lee Surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox Court House