Midterm Timeline

  • 1800 Presidential Election

    Political: Marked the first peaceful transition in power from one political party to another
  • The Tripolitan War Begins

    Military: The was helped bring the end of piracy in the barbary coast
  • State of the Union

    Political: Jefferson became the first president to provide a State of the Union in written form
  • Treaty of 1794

    Economic: The U.S. and Britain concluded a convention regarding the Treaty of 1794
  • Library of Congress

    Political: Jefferson signed the act establishing the Library of Congress
  • Appointed James Monro

    Political: Appointed James Monro as Minister to France and Spain
  • Ohio enters the Union

    Economical: Ohio is granted admission into the Union
  • Marbury v. Madison

    Political: The case was decided by the Supreme Court which stated that the Supreme Court can declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the constitution
  • Louisana Purchace

    Economic: The Louisana Purchase Treaty was signed
  • 12th Amendment

    Political: The 12th Amendment was passed. Modified the electoral college requiring separate votes for president and vice president
  • Louisiana Territory Act

    Economic: Thomas Jefferson signed the Louisiana Territory Act
  • Louis and Clark Expidition

    Economical: It was a federally funded venture to explore the North American West
    https://www.nps.gov/lecl/index.htm
  • Judiciary Act of 1802

    Political: An act to amend the judicial system in the United States
  • Pike Expidition

    Economic: Pike sets out to explore the southwest, authorized by Jefferson
  • Chesapeake Affair/Impressment

    Military: Involved the degraded relationship between Great Britain and the United States and led to the hostilities of the War of 1812
  • The Embargo Act of 1807

    Political: Closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports form Britain
  • Erskine Agreement

    Economic: Reestablished trade between the U.S. and Britain
  • Fletcher v. Peck

    Political: This marks the first time a state law has been struck down as unconstitutional
  • Tecumseh's War

    Military: The conflict between the United States and Tecumseh's Confederacy led by the Shawne leader Tecumseh in the Indiana territory
  • Louisiana enters the Union

    Political: Louisana is granted admission into the Union
  • Red Stick's War

    Military: A conflict within the tribes of the Muscogee, but the United States became involved
  • Battle of Lake Erie

    Military: A U.S. victory that secured control of the lake forcing the British to abandon
    https://www.nps.gov/pevi/index.htm
  • Second Bank of the United States

    Economic: The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the bank was chartered from February 1816 to January 1836
  • Washington D.C. invaded by the British

    Military: The British set fire to the White House and Dolley Madison saves the Lans Downe portrait of George Washington
  • Battle of Lake Champlain

    Military: The last great naval battle of the War of 1812
    https://home.nps.gov/fomc/index.htm
  • Star Spangaled Banner

    Political: The day that Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner
    https://www.nps.gov/stsp/index.htm
  • James Monroe as Secretary of War

    Political: James Madison nominated James Monroe as Secretary of War after William Armstrong resigned
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Military: American victory in the Battle of New Orleans
  • Treaty of Ghent

    Economic: The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent in Europe which ended the War of 1812 between the U.S and the United Kingdom
  • Martin v. Hunter

    Political: Gave federal courts the power to review state court interpretation of the Constitution
  • Tariff of 1816

    Economical: It was only used for 3 years to move the country toward protectionism
  • Indiana admitted to the Union

    Economic: The state of Indiana is admitted to the Union
  • Rush-Bagot Treaty

    Economic: Rush-Bagot treaty is signed
  • First Seminole War

    Military: The U.S. authorities attempt to capture runaway slaves living among Seminole Indians
  • Mississippi enters the Union

    Economic: Mississippi is granted admission into the Union
  • U.S. Canadian Border Treaty

    Economic: 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
  • Louisana enters the Union

    Economic: Louisana is granted admission into the Union
  • Panic of 1819

    Economic: The beginning of the first widespread financial crisis in the U.S.
  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward

    Political: The Supreme Court ruled that the state of New Hampshire had violated the contract clause in its attempt to install a new board of trustees for Dartmouth College
  • Adam-Onis Treaty

    Economic: Adam-Onist Treaty was signed
  • McCulloch V. Maryland

    Political: Established a president that states can not tax federal agencies
  • Alabama enters the Union

    Economic: Alabama is granted admission into the union
  • Election of 1820

    Political: The presidential candidate ran effectively unopposed
  • Missouri Comprimise

    Political: This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time
  • Maine enters the Union

    Economic: Maine is granted admission into the Union
  • The Second Great Awakening

    Religious: Revival of religious feelings
  • Missouri Compromise

    Political: The act attempted to maintain a legislative balance between the pro-slavery South and the anti-slavery North by delineating which states would be free and which would not
  • Land Act of 1820

    Economic: Ended the ability to purchase the United States public domain lands on a credit or installment system over four years
  • Cohens v. Virginia

    Social: a 19th-century Supreme Court case that established the court's power to review state Supreme Court decisions in criminal cases
  • Missouri enters the Union

    Economic: Missouri is granted admission into the Union
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Social: Stated that the United States would recognize existing colonies in the western hemisphere
  • Election of 1824

    Political: The House of Representatives shows the winner of the election. The election was the only time since the 12th amendment was passed that an election was decided by the house
  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    Political: Supreme Court case that established the principle that states cannot interfere with Congress's power to regulate commerce
  • Tariff of 1824

    Political: It was a protective tariff in the United States designed to protect American industry from cheaper British commodities
  • Erie Canal

    Economic: It provided a direct water route from New York City to the Midwest allowing for large-scale commercial and agricultural development
  • Russo-American Treaty

    Social: Consolidated U.S. claims to the Oregon territory
    https://www.nps.gov/oreg/index.htm