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Second Great Awakening Began
Lead by mostly Baptist and Methodist preachers. More people become members of the christian church -
Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin
Applied for patent on his cotton gin, separated seeds from raw cotton -
Thomas Jefferson Was Elected President
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Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
Large slave revolt in Richmond area coordinated by Gabriel Prosser, unsuccessful -
Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of the U.S. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Judaical court case that established the basis for judicial review -
Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition
Explored Louisiana purchase -
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Naval engagement off Norfolk coast. American Frigate USS Chesapeake and British Warship HMS Leopard, British looking for deserters -
Embargo Act
Prohibited American ships from trading with foreign nations. Put in place by Thomas Jefferson, ruined American economy. -
James Madison Elected President
James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively -
Non-Intercourse Act
Lifted embargo acts except for British and French ports -
Beginning of Manifest Destiny
the territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1860. 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". -
Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans From Manchester, England
Smuggled plans for factory to America -
Death of Tecumseh
Leader of multi tribal confederation, died in battle against U.S. -
The British Burn Washington D.C.
British attack in War of 1812 against American capital Washington D.C. -
Era of Good Feelings Began
A sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812 -
Hartford Convention
The New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government -
Battle Of New Orleans
Last major battle of the War of 1812, troops commanded by Andrew Jackson defeat British soldiers at New Orleans -
Treaty of Ghent Ratified
Ended War of 1812 -
End of the war of 1812
No real gain for U.S. or Britain just peace for years to come -
James Monroe Elected President
James Monroe becomes president, era of good feelings -
Rush-Bagot Treaty
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. -
Anglo-American Convention
Resolved standing boundary issues between U.S. and Britain. The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country -
Adam-Onis Treaty
U.S. acquired Florida from Spain, gained more land -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland -
Panic of 1819
First major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy -
Dartmouth V.S. Woodward
landmark decision in United States corporate law from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations. -
Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, repealed by Kansas-Nebraska Act -
Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt
Led by a free slave Denmark Vesey near Charleston, South Carolina -
Monroe Doctrine
Policy opposing European colonization in the America's -
Gibbons V.S. Ogden
landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce -
Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York
His religious views led him to promote social reforms, such as abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans -
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. -
John Quincy Adams Elected President (Corrupt Bargain)
Only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote -
Erie Canal Completed
The Erie Canal was completed -
Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”
Speeches on America's drinking habits and what is was doing to hurt America -
Tariff of Abominations
A protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.
Created for people against Andrew Jackson's presidential decisions -
Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers
Equal rights for women, especially in education -
Andrew Jackson Elected President
Andrew Jackson was elected President -
Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
LDS church was created -
Indian Removal Act
law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. -
Trail of Tears Began
series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
Black Hawk War
Brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader -
Worcester V.S. Georgia
vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state -
Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of the United States
Jackson argued in his veto message, because it gave the bank considerable, almost monopolistic, market power, specifically in the markets that moved financial resources around the country and into and out of other nations -
Nullification Crisis Began
Ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state -
Treaty of New Echota
Ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation, caused trail of tears -
Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular
pursuant to the Coinage Act and carried out by his successor, President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver. -
First McGuffey Reader Published
A traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills. -
Battle of the Alamo
pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission -
Texas Declared Independence from Mexico
formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution -
Transcendental Club’s First Meeting
Discuss the formation of a new club -
Panic of 1837
financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up -
Martin Van Buren Elected President
8th POTUS -
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”
Emerson proclaimed many of the tenets of Transcendentalism against a more conventional Unitarian theology. He argued that moral intuition is a better guide to the moral sentiment than religious doctrine, and insisted upon the presence of true moral sentiment in each individual, while discounting the necessity of belief in the historical miracles of Jesus -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies -
Treaty of Wanghia with China
diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States -
James Polk Elected President
inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1849. James K. Polk, a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election. -
U.S. Annexation of Texas
Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state -
Bear Flag Revolt
short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities -
Start of the Mexican War
armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. U.S. wanted part of Mexico's land -
John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community
Oneida community’s utopian philosophy focused on the individual relationship to God; it was intended to be a sort of “kingdom of God on earth.” -
Gold Rush Began in California
gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education
Built schools, presented reforms in the field of education -
Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience
argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice -
Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to the U.S.
American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world. -
Gadsden Purchase
a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty -
Kanagawa Treaty
the Convention of Kanagawa or Kanagawa Treaty was the first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate
