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1816 Second Bank of the United States is established
The Second Bank of the United States, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States -
1816 First Protective tariff goes into effect
the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition. -
1817 Rush-Bagot Treaty between the United States and Great Britain
The Rush-Bagot Treaty took place between the United States and Great Britain following the War of 1812 and its goal was to significantly eliminate both countries' burgeoning naval fleets stationed in the Great Lakes. Both nations aimed to ease tensions as a way to prevent another Anglo-American war. -
1818 The Convention of 1818 establishes the northern border of the Louisiana Purchase at the 49th parallel
The Convention of 1818 was a treaty between the United States and Britain that set the 49th parallel as the boundary between British North America and the US across the West. Cutting on the 49th parallel, on the right bank of the Moyie River, looking west, 1860 -
Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819 was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States -
1819 Supreme Court issues McCulloch v. Maryland decision
the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank. -
1819 United States and Spain agree to the Transcontinental (Adams-Onís) Treaty
the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest. In return, the United States recognized Spanish sovereignty over Texas. -
1820 Congress accepts the Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri -
1821 Florida becomes a territory
The Territory of Florida was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that until March 3, 1845, when it was admitted to the Union as the state of Florida. -
1821 Maine and Missouri become states
the decisive votes in the House admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and made free soil all western territories north of Missouri's southern border. ... Missouri so agreed and became the 24th state on August 10, 1821; Maine had been admitted the previous year on March 15. -
1823 President Monroe Announces the monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. -
1824 Supreme Court issues Gibbons v. Ogden decision
was 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. -
John Quincy Adams wins the presidential election by what some claim is a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay
It was widely believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. Jackson's supporters denounced this as a "corrupt bargain." -
1828 Andrew Jackson wins the presidency
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. As incumbent Vice President John C. Calhoun had sided with the Jacksonians, the National Republicans led by Adams, chose Richard Rush as Adams' running mate.
