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Fulton's Steam Boat
Robert Fulton had use the previous prototypes of such steam powered transportation boats, and demonstrated the the potential of the machins by propelling his steam boat 150 miles up the Hudson river. -
Louisiana admitted as a State
The former French colony was admitted as a state, but other then that small concentrate area about the Mississippian bay, white settlement was sparse. -
Boston Manufacturing Company
This factory was of the first textile factories. The company marked the beginning of the transition of texile work into a manufacturing ordeal. -
The Enterprise
The Enterprise marked to be the first steamboat to make a round trip from Pittsburg to New Orleans and back. within five years there were 69 steam boats working along the Mississippi waters. -
War of 1812 Ends
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The Second Bank of the United States
At the time, trade among farmers was beginning to be a very common practice, and with the new found trading system, capital was need. The country hadn't printed out any new currency under the constitution. The second Bank of the Unite States was made to regulate this, but it only ended in two national depressions after wards. -
James Monroe Elected President
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Rush-Bagot Agreement
Limited British Navy in the Great Lakes, and Britain promised they would not invade America from Canada as long as the U.S. did vice versa. -
Missouri Applies for statehood
Besides Louisianna, Missouri was the first state to be carved out of the Louisianna purchase. And seeing as the state contained two thousand to three thousand slaves, it was obvious the territory was going to enter the union as a slave state, and a petition for emancipation was out of the question. -
Anglo-American convention of 1818
Set the borders of Canada and the Louisiana Purcahse at the 49th paralel, and joint ocupation of the Oregon Territory. -
First National Road
The national road project was built as a way to satisfy the countries ever growing need for cheap, fast transportation, but although this did represent the government first public transportation project, they failed the need for cheap, being it became a toll road. -
Occupation of east Florida
After persuit of Semolian Indians, Andrew Jackson. This occupation was known as the first Semolian war. Although government offcials of the capital did not agree with such acts, they paid no objection seeing as public opinion aprove of it. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Supreme court case debated wheather New Hamshire had the permission to comvert Dartmouth private college into a state university. Dartmouth's spokesperson claimed that their charter from 1769 was still valid. Cheif of Justice Marsall declared that any charter by the state would be fully protected. -
Adams-Onic Treaty
Florida was given to the U.S. in return that the United States assumed $5 million of the financial claims of American citizens against Spain. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
The supreme court case was argued about the tax that the state of Maryland had put on the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States. the court was ruling if congress had the right to make a national bank, and if a state had the right to tax a institution created by congress. -
The Missouri Comprimise
The contradictions among the idea of letting Missouri come in as a slave state were finally colved when Maine, was looking for separation from Massachussetts. Congress wasted no time letting in both Maine, as a free state, and Missouri as a slace state at the same time, and declared that any state was was admitted above the 36 paralell, were closed to slavery. But this only postponed the inevidable. -
Monroe's second term
The republican party wins the election almost unanimously, and Monroe becomes president. The Era of Good feelings is rumored seeing as there is only one party. -
Rocky Montain Fur Company founded
Unlike other fur companies, who relied on trade with indians, the Rocky Mountain company relied on mountain men, who caught the game on their own. These characters made up many legends of the west. -
Monroe Doctrine
After much debate over the United States relationship with European powers if the country recognized all of the new found countries going through revolutions of their own in south America, the doctorine declared the country opposed any further colonization by European nations, in return, the U.S. would not interfer in future European affairs. Although Europeans paid no mind to the doctorine, the U.S. itself felt a newfound independence and self confedence. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
The court debated on the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce. The steamboat monopoly granted by the state of New York was challenged by a ferry service operating between New York and New Jersey. The court judged New York's actions against the competition unconstitutional.