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Thomas Jefferson was elected President
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Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
Literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area. -
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. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. -
Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition
First American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney 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. -
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. -
Embargo Act
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a law passed by the United State Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson on December 22, 1807. It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. -
James Madison Elected President
The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively. -
Non-Intercourse Act
This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. -
Beginning of Manifest Destiny
e 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
Just before the War of 1812, Francis Cabot Lowell of Massachusetts smuggled plans for a power loom out of England. -
Death of Tecumseh
Tecumseh's death marked the end of Tecumseh's Confederacy. -
The British Burn Washington DC
The Burning of Washington was a British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812 -
Battle of New Orleans
A series of engagements fought between December 14, 1814 and January 18, 1815, constituting the last major battle of the War of 1812 -
Hartford Convention
Series of meetings in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 -
Era of Good Feeling Began
Mood of victory that swept the nation at the end of the War of 1812 -
Treaty of Ghent Ratified
Ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. Peace negotiations began in Ghent, Belgium. -
End of the War of 1812
Results of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States, 1812-1815, involved with no geographical changes. The main result of the war was two centuries of peace between the United States and Britain. -
James Monroe Elected President
Monroe was elected the fifth president of the United States in 1817. -
Anglo-American Convention
Treaty signed between the United States and the United Kingdom. It resolved standing boundary issues between the two nations, and allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country -
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812. Provided for a large demilitarization of lakes along the international boundary, where many British naval arrangements and forts remained. -
Dartmouth College V. 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 -
Panic of 1819
First major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821 -
Adam-Onis Treaty
Treaty between the United States and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
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. -
Second Great Awakening Began
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. -
Missouri Compromise
n an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt
The original attack date was set for in July, 1822 but had to be moved forward after two conspirators were arrested on May 30. Unfortunately for the rebels, Vesey was unable to communicate the change of date to thousands of slaves, and the revolt never occurred. -
Monroe Doctrine
A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
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. -
Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community
Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist and social reformer, purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony. -
John Quincy Adams Elected President
The United States presidential election of 1824 was the tenth quadrennial presidential election, held from Tuesday, October 26, to Thursday, December 2, 1824. John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825. -
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. Originally, it ran 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. -
Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”
He helped establish missionary organizations, pressured influential men to keep their businesses closed on Sundays, and became a leading voice in the temperance movement, publishing his Six Sermons on Intemperance in 1826. -
Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education
Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature. -
Tariff of Abominations
Protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Andrew Jackson Elected President
Re-match between President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election. -
Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers
She published a seminal essay on the importance of women as teachers, "Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education." In this essay, she promoted women as natural teachers -
Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York
Charles Grandison Finney is credited with being one of the most forceful American evangelists, one who was greatly responsible for the rise of religious fervor in western New York from the 1820s to the 1850s. -
Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
The LDS Church was formally organized by Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830, in western New York. Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon -
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. -
Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Case in which the United States Supreme Court 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 was unconstitutional. -
Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-charter of the Second Bank of the US
The Bank War refers to the political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States (BUS) during the presidency of Andrew Jackson -
Nullification Crisis Began
The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
Creation of the Whig Party in the US
Whigs supported the supremacy of the US Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking, and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing -
Treaty of New Echota
Treaty signed in New Echota, Georgia by officials of the United States government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, the Treaty Party. -
First McGuffey Reader Published
A traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills. -
Battle of the Alamo
Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar -
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
The Specie Circular is a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 pursuant to the Coinage Act and carried out by his successor, President Martin Van Buren. -
Transcendental Club’s First Meeting
Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 1836, to discuss the formation of a new club; -
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. -
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. -
Trail of Tears Began
As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”
The "Divinity School Address" is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School -
John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community
John Humphrey Noyes was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage". -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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
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
The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America -
Start of the Mexican War
In Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
Bear Flag Revolt
Small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Gadsden Purchase
29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty -
Kanagawa Treaty
First treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate -
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.
