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Revolution of 1800
The election of Thomas Jefferson was the first time power had shifted from one party to another -
Judiciary Act
Perpetuated the Federalists' plan of six regional circuits -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
An expedition to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it -
Embargo Act
A law passed by the United State Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson. It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. -
James Madison Elected President
Fourth President of the United States. He made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers -
Nonintercourse Act
This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports -
Fletcher v. Peck
A landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Supreme Court first ruled a state law unconstitutional -
Battle of Tippecanoe
A conflict between the confederacy of native warriors led by Tecumseh, a Shawnee tribe member, and United States armed forces under the leadership of General William Henry Harrison. Fought primarily over white expansion into Indian territory, the battle lasted approximately one day with the United States securing victory. The conflict at Tippecanoe was the primary catalyst for the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States -
War of 1812
Conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights.It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent -
Battle of Lake Erie
Major U.S. naval victory in the War of 1812, ensuring U.S. control over Lake Erie and precluding any territorial cession in the Northwest to Great Britain in the peace settlement. -
Star Spangled Banner Written
Francis Scott Key pens a poem about the garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the naval portion of the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812. It was later set to music and in 1931 became America’s national anthem -
Battle of New Orleans
U.S. victory against Great Britain in the War of 1812 and the final major battle of that conflict -
Tariff of 1816
The first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition -
Era of Good Feelings
1816 - 1819 A period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812 -
Monroe's Presidency
1816 - 1825 The fifth President of the United States and the last President from the founding fathers -
Rush-Bagot Agreement
A treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812 -
Treaty of 1818
A treaty between the United States and Great Britain which resolved most long standing border issues between the U.S. and British North America (Canada) -
Panic of 1819
The first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States.It was followed by a general collapse of the American economy that persisted through 1821 -
Missouri Compromise
The legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
A landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation -
Monroe Doctrine
A statement of foreign policy issued by President James Monroe in 1823, declaring that the United States would not tolerate intervention by European nations in the affairs of nations in the Americas -
Revolution of 1828
Andrew Jackson's victory broke the line of presidents from Virginia and Massachusetts, and to many citizens represented the triumph of the common man -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands -
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
This bill is brought by the Cherokee Nation, praying an injunction to restrain the state of Georgia from the execution of certain laws of that state, which as is alleged, go directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a political society, and to seize, for the use of Georgia, the lands of the nation which have been assured to them by the United States in solemn treaties repeatedly made and still in force -
Proclamation to the People of South Carolina
President Jackson rejected John Calhoun and the state legislature of South Carolina's insistence that states were sovereign and therefore had the right to nullify laws passed by the federal government -
Trail of Tears
A series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west (usually west of the Mississippi River) that had been designated as Indian Territory
