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Haitian Revolution
Washington, then Adams, then Jefferson. This was the very first successful slave revolt and it led to many more slave revolts because they hoped the future revolts would also be just as successful. The revolution hurt France financially, gave Haiti freedom, spread the fear of slave rebellion. The US was the first free slave nation in the western hemisphere and it ended Napoleon's dream of an American empire which led to him selling the Lousiana territory to America for $15 million. -
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1800 - 1812
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Judiciary Acts
Adams and the Federalists created 16 new Federal Judgeships. These acts were also known as the midnight acts. This was because up until midnight of election night, Adams was still in charge. The republicans try to remove the new judges, but Federalists claim this is unconstitutional. -
Jefferson Presidency
3rd president from 1801-1809. He was from Virgina and he was a democrat republican or Jeffersonian republican. During this time, he helped to purchase the Louisiana territory and oversaw the corps of discovery. -
Tripolitan War
Jefferson wanted to make our military smaller, but when pirates began seizing our ships. So Jefferson used Adams' army and navy to protect the US ships. This was not an official war, but the US ended up having to pay 60k for them to release our sailors. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Marbury was one of the midnight judges that the Republicans were trying to get rid of. Madison cut his pay to make him leave and make him an example for the other judges they wanted gone. Madison did not have the authority not to pay him, so they went to court. The court ended up ruling that Maybury has the right to be paid, but they had no way to make Madison give him his salary. -
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon convinced the King of Spain to give France the Lousiana territory and Jefferson is scared that if we want to expand west we will have to fight France. The French wanted to fight Britain and weaken their empire. The French don't want the British to get the land while at war with them, so they are willing to sell to the US. The US ends up buying all of it for $15 million. Since we don't know anything about this new land, Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark to explore. -
Lewis and Clark (Corps of Discovery)
After Jefferson purchased the Lousiana territory, he sent two men, by the names of Lewis and Clark, to go explore the new unknown land. They explored for 2 years (1804-1806). They traveled by the Missouri river, through the Rocky mountains, and to the mouth of the Columbia River. This exploration gave the Americans knowledge about their newfound land and opened the west to Indian trade. -
Chesapeake Affair
An issue between the British and the US created the Embargo Act of 1807. The problems arose when a British ship went searching for deserters and fired on the American Chesapeake off the coast of Virgina. -
Orders in council
The Orders in Council were British laws that lead to the war of 1812. These laws permitted the impressment of sailors and forbade neutral ships from visiting ports from which Britain was not included unless they first go to Britain and traded for British goods. -
Embargo Act
This act forbade the export of all goods from the US. Jefferson wanted to avoid all foreign affair. It failed to effect the Britsh. -
Non Intercourse Act
This act was passed with the repeal of the Embargo Act. This reopened trade with all except Britain and France. The Act continued Jefferson's policy of economic coercion still with little effect. -
Fletcher vs Peck
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Supreme Court first ruled a state law unconstitutional. The decision also helped create a growing precedent for the sanctity of legal contracts and hinted that Native Americans did not hold title to their own lands. -
Macon's Bill No. 2
This was intended to hint Great Britain and France to stop seizing American ships during the Napoleonic Wars. It replaced the Non-Intercourse Act and reopened trade with Britain and France, but said that if either country didn't follow the rules, the US would cut off trade. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
This battle was fought in Indiana and the result of the battle is the defeat of Shawnee Chief Tenskwatawa "the Prophet" at the hands of Governor William Henry Harrison in the Indiana wilderness. After the battle of Tippecanoe, Chief Tenskwatawa's brother, Tecumseh built an alliance with the British against the Americans. -
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1812 - 1824
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War of 1812
Fought between Britain and the United States largely over the issues of trade and impressment. Though the war ended in a relative draw, it demonstrated America’s willingness to defend its interests militarily, earning the young nation newfound respect from European powers. -
USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere
A single ship action between two ships during the War of 1812 approximately 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place shortly after war had broken out, and would prove to be an important victory for American morale. -
Battle of Great Lakes (Lake Erie)
Sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-bay, fought in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the war of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and the Battle of Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the war of 1812. -
Battle of Thames
Proctor was forced to retreat north up the river Thames to Moraviantown, where his allies, the tribal confederacy under shawee leader Tecumseh, had no choice but to follow. Happened in Upper Canada, near present-day Chatman, Ontario. British troops under Major General Henry Proctor had occupied Detroit until the US navy gained re-established, the tribal confederacy collapsed and Proctor would later be court-martialled for his poor leadership. -
Battle of Horseshoe bend
Andrew Jackson and his forces won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. Horseshoe Bend was the major battle of the Creek War, in which Jackson sought to "clear" the Mississippi Territory for American settlement. He commanded an army of Tennessee militia men, which he had turned into a well-trained fighting force. -
Burning of Washington DC
Wash was a British attack against Wash, D.c the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a British force led by Robert Ross occupied Wash and set fire to public buildings, including the White House (known as the Presidential Mansion at the time) and the Capitol, as well as other facilities of the U.S. government. It marks the only time in U.S. history that Wash, D.C. has been occupied by a foreign force. -
Battle of McHenry
British forces under Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane and Major General Robert Ross advanced up the Chesapeake Bay to attack Baltimore, MD. A vital port city, Baltimore was believed by the British to be the base of many of the American privateers that were preying on their shipping. To take the city, Ross and Cochrane planned a two-prong attack with the former landing at North Point and advancing overland, while the latter attacked Fort McHenry and the harbor defenses by water. -
Treaty of Ghent
Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border. -
Hartford Convention
a series of meetings from December 15, 1814 – January 5, 1815 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which 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's increasing power. Despite radical outcries among Federalists for New England secession and a separate peace with Great Britain, moderates outnumbered them and extreme proposals were not a major focus of the debate. -
Dartmouth College vs Woodward
A landmark decision in US corporate law from the Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the US Constitution to private corporations; arose when the president of Dartmouth C. was deposed by its trustees, leading to the NH legislature attempting to force the college to become a public institution. The Supreme Court upheld the sanctity of the original charter of the college, which pre-dated the creation of the State. -
Panic of 1819
The impressive post-War of 1812 economic expansion ended. Banks throughout the country failed; mortgages were foreclosed, forcing people out of their homes and off their farms. Falling prices impaired agriculture and manufacturing, triggering widespread unemployment. -
Tallmadge Amendment
Failed proposal to prohibit the importation of slaves into Missouri territory and pave the way for gradual emancipation. Southerners vehemently opposed the amendment, which they perceived as a threat to the sectional balance between North and South. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
A treaty between the United States and Spain. Signed on February of 1819, the treaty gave the US the acquisition of Florida and established a new boundary line between Spanish and US territory. -
McCulloch vs Maryland
The state of Maryland tried 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. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was when Missouri was admitted as a slave state into the union and Maine was admitted as a free state in order to preserve the balance between slave and free states in Congress. -
Land Act of 1820
Fueled the settlement of the Northwest and Missouri territories by lowering the price of public land. Also prohibited the purchase of federal acreage on credit, thereby eliminating one of the causes of the Panic of 1819. -
Cohens vs Virginia
A United States Supreme Court decision most noted for the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters when the defendant claims that their Constitutional rights have been violated. -
Monroe Doctrine
A principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Gibbons vs Ogden
A 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 -
Russo American Treaty
was signed in St. Petersburg between representatives of Russia and the United States on April 17, 1824, ratified by both nations on January 11, 1825 and went into effect on January 12, 1825. The accord contained six articles. It gave Russian claims on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America south of parallel 54°40′ north over what Americans known as the Oregon Country to the United States. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and is considered the founder of the Democratic Party.
