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Second Great Awakening Began
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. -
Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin
Allows for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Thomas Jefferson was elected president
Revolution of 1801 -
Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
Was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800 -
Marbury v. Madison
A 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
Was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. Doubled the size of the USA. -
Beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
Embargo Act
Prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports -
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Naval engagement that occurred between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. -
James Madison Elected President
The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively. -
Non-intercourse Act
Lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. -
Beginning of Manifest Destiny
Territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1860. -
Era of Good Feeling
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. -
Death of Tecumseh
Killed in battle. Marked the end of the Indian resistance east of Mississippi. -
Treaty of Ghent Ratified
Ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain -
The British Burn Washington DC
British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States -
Hartford Convention
England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 -
Francis Cabot Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans From Manchester, England
The BMC was the first "integrated" textile mill in America in which all operations for converting raw cotton into finished cloth could be performed in one mill building. -
Battle of New Orleans
American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated British forces -
End of War of 1812
The Treaty of Peace and Amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America is signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium. -
James Monroe Elected President
Oversaw major expansion westward. -
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
The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States of America and the United Kingdom -
Adams-Onis treaty
A treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
The Court held that Congress had the power to incorporate the bank and that Maryland could not tax instruments of the national government employed in the execution of constitutional powers. -
Panic of 1819
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
A 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
The balance of power in Congress between slave and free states -
Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt
Slaves planned an attack on the whites -
Monroe Doctrine
US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
John Quincy Adams elected president (Corrupt Bargain)
It was widely believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. -
Gibbons V. Ogden
The Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce -
Erie Canal Completed
It was the second longest canal in the world and greatly affected the development and economy of New York, New York City, and the United States. -
Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York
One of the most forceful American evangelists, one who was greatly responsible for the rise of religious fervor in western New York -
Robert Owen Founded The New Harmony Community
With the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony. -
Horace Mann elected secretary of the Massachusetts board of education
Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn unruly American children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers -
Tariff of Abominations
Designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Andrew Jackson Elected President
The Democratic Party merged its strength from the existing supporters of Jackson. -
Lyman Beecher Delivered His "Six Sermons on Intemperance"
This is a glowing description of the sin of intemperance. -
Indian Removal Act
President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders -
Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
View faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as fundamental principles of their religion. -
Worcester V. Georgia
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 United States
Argued that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution -
Nullification crisis began
The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina -
Black Hawk War
Conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader -
Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.
The Whigs supported the supremacy of the US Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization -
Treaty of New Echota
Ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation -
Transcendental Club's First meeting
The club was a meeting-place for these young thinkers and an organizing ground for their idealist frustration with the general state of American culture and society at the time -
First McGuffey Reader Published
A traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills. -
Texas Declared Independence from Mexico
The formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. -
Battle of the Alamo
A 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 near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders. -
Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular
It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver. -
Panic of 1837
Was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s -
Martin Van Buren Elected President
During his half-century of public service, he built and perfected a new system of political parties at first the state and then the federal level. -
Trails of tears began
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"
"Divinity School Address" was delivered in 1838 to a graduating class at Harvard College, aroused considerable controversy because it attacked formal religion and argued for self-reliance and intuitive spiritual experience. -
Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers
A book that discussed the underestimated importance of women’s roles in society. -
Webster Ashburton treaty
A treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies -
Treaty of Wanghia with China
Was a diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States -
James Polk Elected President
During his presidency, the United States expanded significantly with the annexation of the Republic of Texas, the Oregon Treaty, and the close of the Mexican-American War. -
U.S. Annexation of Texas
Incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. -
Start of The Mexican War
An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
Bear Flag Revolt
Short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. -
John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community
Upon receiving word that arrest warrants had been issued for several of his loyal followers, the group left Vermont for Oneida, New York, where Noyes knew some friendly Perfectionists with land. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The 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. -
Gold Rush Began in California
When gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
Henry David Thoreau civil disobedience
Resistance to Civil Government is an essay -
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
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
Kanagawa Treaty
The first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate.
