APUSH Period 4

  • Second Great Awakening Began

    Second Great Awakening Began

    Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States
  • Thomas Jefferson was elected president

    Thomas Jefferson was elected president

    He served as the third President of the United States and was elected the second Vice President of the United States under John Adams
  • Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt

    Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt

    Led a movement in the Richmond area in 1800 to revolt slavery. Literate.
  • Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans from Manchester, EN

    Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans from Manchester, EN

    Lowell thought that in order for the US to have a practical power loom, they would have to steal it from Britain
  • Lousiana Purchase

    Lousiana Purchase

    acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France.
  • Marbury Vs Madison

    Marbury Vs Madison

    landmark case by the United States Supreme Court which forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
  • Beginning of Lewis + Clark Expedition

    Beginning of Lewis + Clark Expedition

    Lewis and Clark began their exploration through the western side of the USA
  • Embargo Act

    Embargo Act

    prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

    Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

    naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
  • Eli Whitney Patented Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Patented Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney (1765–1825) applied for a patent of his cotton gin on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807
  • James Madison Elected President

    James Madison Elected President

    The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively.
  • Non-Intercourse Act

    Non-Intercourse Act

    lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.
  • Rush-Bagot Treaty Signed

    Rush-Bagot Treaty Signed

    Rush-Bagot treaty signed
  • Beginning Of Manifest Destiny

    Beginning Of Manifest Destiny

    This era, from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War, has been called the "age of manifest destiny".
  • Death of Tecumseh

    Death of Tecumseh

    Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy in the early years of the nineteenth century.
  • The British Burn Washington DC

    The British Burn Washington DC

    Happened during war of 1812
  • Treaty of Ghent Ratified

    Treaty of Ghent Ratified

    The Treaty of Ghent (8 Stat. 218) was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, Belgium.
  • Hartford Convention

    Hartford Convention

    series of meetings between 1814 and 1815
  • End of the War of 1812

    End of the War of 1812

    War ended 3 years after beginning
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    series of engagements fought, constituting the last major battle of the War of 1812 American combatants
  • Era of Good Feelings Began

    Era of Good Feelings Began

    Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans
  • James Monroe Elected President

    James Monroe Elected President

    Fifth president of USA
  • Anglo-American Convention

    Anglo-American Convention

    The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    Adams-Onis Treaty

    ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
  • Panic of 1819

    Panic of 1819

    The Panic of 1819 was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821
  • Dartmouth College V Woodward

    Dartmouth College V Woodward

    a landmark decision in United States corporate law from the United States Supreme Court
  • McCulloch Vs Maryland

    McCulloch Vs Maryland

    McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise is the title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress
  • Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt

    Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt

    free slave in south carolina; a mulatto who inspired a group of slaves to seize charleston, south carolina in 1822, but one of them betrayed him and he and his thirty-seven followers were hanged before the revolt started.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823.
  • Gibbons Vs Ogden

    Gibbons Vs Ogden

    Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce
  • John Quincy Adams Elected President

    John Quincy Adams Elected President

    John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as the sixth president.
  • Charles B Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western NY

    Charles B Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western NY

    presbyterian minister appealed to his audience's sense of emotion rather than their reason.
  • Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community

    Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community

    purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.
  • Erie Canal Completed

    Erie Canal Completed

    The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System
  • Lyman Beecher Delivered His "Six Sermons on Intemperance"

    Lyman Beecher Delivered His "Six Sermons on Intemperance"

    American Temperance Society co-founder and leader
  • Tariff of Abominations

    Tariff of Abominations

    designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Andrew Jackson Elected President

    re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson
  • Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

    Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

    founded mormonism in new york in 1830 with the guidance of an angel
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands
  • Worcester v Georgia

    Worcester v Georgia

    Conviction of Samuel Worcester because he did not have citizen license in Georgia.
  • Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of US

    Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of US

    The Bank War refers to the political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
  • Nullification Crisis Began

    Nullification Crisis Began

    involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the "Divinity School Address"

    Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the "Divinity School Address"

    Transcendentalist, leading to the later essays "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar."
  • Black Hawk War

    Black Hawk War

    brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader
  • Creation of Whig Party

    Creation of Whig Party

    Whig Party was formally organized in 1834
  • Treaty of New Echota

    Treaty of New Echota

    forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia
  • Battle of Alamo

    Battle of Alamo

    The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.
  • First McGuffey Reader Published

    First McGuffey Reader Published

    A traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills.
  • Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
  • Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular

    Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular

    The Specie Circular is a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 pursuant to the Coinage Act
  • Panic of 1837

    Panic of 1837

    financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s
  • Martin Van Buren Elected President

    Martin Van Buren Elected President

    Martin Van Buren was an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841.
  • Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies
  • Treaty of Wanghia with China

    Treaty of Wanghia with China

    diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States
  • James Polk Elected President

    James Polk Elected President

    The presidency of James K. Polk began on March 4, 1845, when he was inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States
  • US Annexation of Texas

    US Annexation of Texas

    During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
  • Start of Mexican War

    Start of Mexican War

    Started in 1846
  • Bear Flag Revolt

    Bear Flag Revolt

    short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities.
  • John Humphrey Noyes Founded Oneida Community

    John Humphrey Noyes Founded Oneida Community

    He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities
  • Horace Mann Elected Secretary

    Horace Mann Elected Secretary

    American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory
  • Gold Rush Began In California

    Gold Rush Began In California

    The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
  • Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience

    Resistance to Civil Government is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
  • Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to US

    Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to US

    Opened the US to japan
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
  • Kanagawa Treaty

    Kanagawa Treaty

    On March 31, 1854, the Convention of Kanagawa or Kanagawa Treaty was the first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate
  • Catherine Beecher Published Essays on Education of Female Teachers

    Catherine Beecher Published Essays on Education of Female Teachers

    known for her forthright opinions on female education
  • Transcendental Club's First Meeting

    Transcendental Club's First Meeting

    protest against the arid intellectual climate of Harvard and Cambridge.