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Cotton Gin
Cotton gin was an invention created by Eli Whitney. It made extracting seeds more simple aand easy. This invention is very important because it contibuted to the rise of the cotton kingdom. -
Treaty Of Ghent
Treaty that ended War Of 1814 between Britain and United States. There was no territory gained by either side.Approximate starting point of Antebellum Period. -
First Seminole War
General Andrew Jackson crossed into East Florida in 1816. He went beyond official orders and occupied East Florida in 1818. This eventually became to be known The First Seminole War. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
Treaty that ended conflict with spain. Spain relinquished Florida to the United States. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise occurred because of an argument on whether or not slavery would be allowed in Missouri. This started in 1819. Months later in 1820, it was finally decided, particularly because of Henry Clay, that Missouri would be a slave state, and that Maine would be a non-slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine
This document declared that the United States opposes to any further colonization of the Western Hemisphere. This document was not mainly written by James Monroe but by John Quincy Adams. -
Gibson v. Ogden
This case may have also played a prime role in government since it bolstered the power of the congress to regulate commerce. In this case, a steamboat monopoly was challenged be a ferry service operating between between New York and New Jersey. The Ferry service won. -
Election of 1824
It was a close battle between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams but Adams took the victory because of the House Of Representatives. -
Erie Canal
Not sure when the Erie Canal was specifically completed, but it did provide an economic boost for th U.S since transporting good would be easier and cheaper but also faster. -
Election Of 1828
This presidency seen the rise of democracy with Andrew Jackson risiing to power. -
The Bank War
In 1832, there was a strong political struggle between Jackson and his democrats and Henry Clay's U.S. Bank supporters. In President Andrew Jackson's eyes, the Bank of the United States was a horrible idea because he and his followers distrusted large businesses and monopolistic banking. They believed that it wasn't a good idea to give one bank the power of the nations economy. However, Henry Clay devised a plan to pass a recharter bill through congress that would in essence reform the second ba -
Compromise of 1833
reduces the Tariff of 1838 which were the Tariffs Of Abomination. The Compromise Tariff of 1833 was a solution to the Nullification Crisis. The compromise was imagined by John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay. The Tariff was passed by the House with a vote of 119 to 85. -
Panic Of 1837
An already precarious economy was tipped over into crisis by depression in England, which resulted in a drop in the price of cotton, and caused English banks and investors to cut back their commitments in the America and refuse extensions of loans. This was a particularly hard blow, because much of America's economic expansion was very dependent on European economy. It sucked for Van Buren since his presidency started terribly. I couldn't find a specific date but it was 1837 when it started. -
Trail of Tears
This event forced Indians out of their tribal land. It was made under horrible conditions and about 4,000 marchers died. -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
settle the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick in 1783. British sends Lord Ashburton who wants small part to build military road, and Webster agrees to avoid war
turns out the whole area actually belonged to U.S.
diplomatic triumph - U.S. gets more land as thanks -
Mexican War
This war was fought between Mexico and the US. It was started because the US had annexed Texas, and there were differing views on where the boundary between Texas and Mexico was. The US had established the Rio Grande as the border, while Mexico claimed the border was the Nueces River. This war was widely supported by Americans, and many soldiers were volunteers. The war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which stated the US gains the territories of Texas, California, and New Mexico. -
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces. It resulted in the U.S gaining new territories that include, California, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. -
Seneca Falls Convention
This convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. This meeting discussed for the demand for women to to be given rights to vote and married woman be free from unjust laws which would gives husband control of property, persons, and children. -
Know-Nothing Party Rise
Know Nothing Party's main goal was to undercut immigrant voting strengths and to stop any further immigration. They were succesful for a little time with taking governiship,Most seats in legislature, and entire congressinal delegation. In 1855 they took power in Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas. No specific date. -
Compromise of 1850
California becomes a free state. Slave trade in Washington D.C was banned. The Fugitive slave laws were brought which really hurt the slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that sort of motivated abolitionist movement . 300,000 copies sold in first year -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise. It said that the people of Kansas and Nebraska could decide for by themselves if they would or wouldn't allow slavery. This was something the Missouri Compromise prohibited, because Kansas and Nebraska were north its line (therefore, they would be anti-slave states under the terms of the Missouri Compromise). The South supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act, while the North was furious about it. These reactions would later lead to violence. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act basically put a chance of permitting slavery in an area where it wasn't allowed. It was originally created by Stephen A Douglas. It delt with whether Missouri and Iowa would be slave states. It repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude. -
Republicans Rise
The Republican party grew out of the conflicts regarding the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories. The stimulus for its founding was provided by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. That law repealed earlier compromises that had excluded slavery from the territories. The passage of this act served as the unifying agent for abolitionists and split the Democrats and the Whig party. "Anti-Nebraska" protest meetings spread rapidly.No Date. Two such meetings we -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave who had appealed to the Supreme Court about moving to the slave state of Missouri that he be granted freedom. The ruling led by Chief Justice Roger Taney was that all blacks could not become US citizens. It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus allowing slavery in all of the US territories. Conroversy had arose. -
Lecompton Constitution
The Lecompton Constitution was a document written by pro-slavery citizens. It dealt with Kansas being inducted as a state, and explained why slavery should be legal, and rejected the idea of free blacks. This made it another item that increased civil tension. President James Buchanan supported the Lecompton Constitution, but it was rejected by Kansas -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown tried to start a rebellion well atleast help the slaves start one but the slaves did not show up because they simply did not trust him since he was a southerner. John Brown was eventually captured and charged with treason and punishment was Death. He bcame known as a Marty in the North but a Villian in the south. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln wins with no support from slave states.
