Important Events From 1774 - 1898

By chloe.scarola

  • first continental congress

    -all but Georgia -determined grievances -address actions to boycotts -parameters which were considered parlimentary interference

  • Franco-American alliance

    -negotiated by Ben Franklin -brings French into war on colonists side -because of the battle of Saratoga

  • Treaty of Paris

    -gave US land and independence

  • Election of Washington

    -cabinett Jefferson-Hamilton events -National Bank created -Pinckneys treaty

  • John Adams

    -XYZ affair -VA & KY resolutions -alien sedation acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

    -Lewis & Clark

  • James Maddison

    -attacks from Britain and France -battle of New Orleans -American system -Hartford Convention (1809 - 1817)

  • Era of good feelings

    -Panic of 1819 -Monroe Doctorine -Missouri is a slave state -Maine is a free state -Adams-Onis treaty

  • Indian Removal act

    -trail of tears -tariff of 1832 -Nat Turners rebellion

  • Martin Van Buren becomes president

    -Panic of 1837

  • Oregon Treaty established northern border with Canada

    America acquires OR, WA, parts of ID, WY, and MT

  • Compromise of 1850 written by Stephan Douglas and Henery Clay

    -CA is a state -stronger fugitive slave laws -abolished slave trade in DC

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    -replaced Missouri Compromise -republican party emerged -ends Whig party -leads to increased sectionalism

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    -Freeport Doctorine

  • Emancipation Proclomation

  • War Ends

    -Lincoln assasinated

  • Reconstruction Begins

    -14th amendment

  • Military Reconstruction

  • 15th Amendment

  • Scandals Credit Mobilier & Whiskey Ring

  • Financial Panic

  • Compromise of 1877

    -Hayes = President -military reconstruction ends in the south

  • McKinley Tariff

    Sherman Anti-Trust act

  • Wilson Gorman Teriff

  • Spanish-American War

    -America drives Spanish out of Cuba & Philippines -Treaty of Paris ends the war (1898 - 1900)