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Andrew Jackson Elected President
Jackson came from the west and was known as the "common man". Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily won re-election against Henry Clay of Kentucky, candidate of the National Republican Party. -
Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. It makes takes the seeds out of cotton easier and more effiecient. -
Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
Gabriel Prosser, was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked prior to its execution, and he and twenty-five followers were taken captive and hanged in punishment. -
Thomas Jefferson was elected president.
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Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, arguably the most important case in Supreme Court history, was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million. This purchase doubled the size. -
Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition
Their mission was to explore the unknown territory, establish trade with the Natives and affirm the sovereignty of the United States in the region. One of their goals was to find a waterway from the US to the Pacific Ocean. -
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on 22 June 1807, 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. -
Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans From Manchester, England
Francis Cabot Lowell spied on the new British textile industry. He was not able to buy drawings or a model of a power loom, however, he memorized the workings of British power looms. He brought the plans back to be used in the U.S. -
Beginning of Manifest Destiny
It is associated with 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". -
Death of Tecumseh
During the War of 1812, Tecumseh and his followers joined the British to fight the United States. He was killed in the Battle of the Thames in Canada on October 5, 1813. -
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. -
Harford Convention
The New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising. -
Treaty of Ghent Ratified
The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. -
Era of Good Feeling Began
The Era of Good Feeling 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. -
Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was the last major battle of the War of 1812. -
End of the War of 1812
The main result of the war was two centuries of peace between the United States and Britain. -
James Monroe Elected President
Facing little opposition from the fractured Federalist Party, Monroe was easily elected president in 1816, winning over 80 percent of the electoral vote and becoming the last president during the First Party System era of American politics. -
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 of 1818 set the boundary between the Missouri Territory in the United States and British North America (later Canada) at the forty-ninth parallel -
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 was 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. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
It was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
This was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. 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. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
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. -
Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt
Vesey was a literate and intelligent black man who had purchased his freedom in January of 1800. He was the only free black to take part in the revolt. The revolt was planned to occur on an unknown date in May of 1822 near Charleston, South Carolina. -
Monroe Doctrine
The doctrine, passed by James Monroe, warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce 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 (Corrupt Bargain)
After the votes were counted in the U.S. presidential election of 1824, no candidate had received a majority of the Presidential Electoral votes, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives. The House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. He was accused of corrupt bargain during this election. -
Erie Canal Completed
It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. -
Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”
Beecher 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
Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature. -
Tariff of Abominations
The "Tariff of Abominations" was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers
Beecher published a seminal essay on the importance of women as teachers. In this essay, she promoted women as natural teachers, but also advocated for an expansion and development of teacher training programs, claiming that the work of a teacher was more important to society than that of a lawyer or doctor. -
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
Joseph Smith was the founder and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and five associates formally organized the Church at Fayette, New York, on 6 April 1830. He presided over the Church until 27 June 1844, when he was martyred. Under his leadership, Church membership grew from six to over 26,000. (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. -
Worcester v. Georgia
W vs G was a 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 United States
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 -
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. -
Nullification Crisis Began
This was the scene in 1832, when South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutional. -
Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.
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
It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. The Treaty of New Echota was signed ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation. -
First McGuffey Reader Published
McGuffey Readers were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1-6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. -
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 -
Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was 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, killing all of the Texian defenders. -
Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular
he 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. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver. -
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. -
Trail of Tears Began
During the 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. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
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 on July 15, 1838.Emerson proclaimed many of the tenets of Transcendentalism against a more conventional Unitarian theology. -
John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community
Humphrey 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
he Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a 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 -
U.S. 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
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War and 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
Bear Flag Revolt. Bear Flag Revolt, short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. -
Gold Rush Began in California
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) 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. -
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 by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
Kanagawa Treaty
First treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate -
Panic of 1837
he Panic of 1837 was a 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. Pessimism abounded during the time.
