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FIRST PROTECTIVE TARIFF GOES INTO EFFECT
A duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition. -
RUSH-BAGOT TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED SATES AND GREAT BRITAIN
The Rush-Bagot Pact was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain to eliminate their fleets from the Great Lakes, excepting small patrol vessels. ... During the War of 1812, both Great Britain and the United States had built fleets of ships on lakes Erie and Ontario, and fought many battles in the region. -
THE CONVETION OF 1818 ESTABLISHES THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE LOUISIANA
The aim of the Convention of 1818 was to settle outstanding boundary issues and disputes between the US and British North America following the War of 1812. -
PURCHASE AT THE 49TH PARALLEL
The 49th parallel of north latitude forms part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States. The word 'parallel' refers to an imaginary line that represents degrees of latitude that encircle the earth parallel to the plane of the equator. -
PANIC OF 1819
The Panic of 1819 was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States. It was followed by a general collapse of the American economy that persisted through 1821 -
UNITED STATES AND SPAIN AGREE TO THE TRANSCONTINENTAL TREATY
The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
SUPREME COURT ISSUES McCULLOCH V. MARYLAND DECISION
In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 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. -
CONGRESS ACCEPTS THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
On March 3, 1820, 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. -
FLORIDA BECOMES A TERRITORY
The Territory of Florida was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed -
MAINE AND MISSOURI BECAME 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. -
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. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest -
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
It was the first election in which the winner did not achieve at least a plurality of the national popular vote. The Democratic-Republican Party had won six consecutive presidential elections and was the only national political party. -
SUPREME COURT ISSUES GIBBONS V. OGDEN DECISIONS
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. -
ANDREW JACKSON WINS THE PRESIDENCY
Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes in the election of 1824, but still lost to John Quincy Adams when the election was deferred to the House of Representatives -
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 during its 20-year charter from February 1816 to January 1836.
