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Second Great Awakening Began
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. -
Eli Whitney Patented Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which changed the rate at which the south could produce cotton. -
Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
A Blacksmith who wanted to start a slave rebellion in the Richmond area -
Thomas Jefferson Elected President
He was the 3rd president elected of the United States. He was vice president prior to his presidential election against John Adams. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs -
Maubery vs Madison
Case Brought to the supreme court about Adam's midnight hour appointments -
James Madison Elected President
James Madison beat the prior Federalist candidate to become president -
Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis chose William Clark as his co-leader for the mission. The excursion lasted over two years -
Embargo Act
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars -
Chesapeake Leopard Affair
Naval engagement in Norfolk Between an American and British warship. -
Non-Intercourse act
They replaced the Thomas Jefferson's embargo act with this act -
Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans from Manchester England
It was illegal for him to smuggle the plans of the Textile Mills from Manchester. -
Death of Tecumseh
Directed fights against the whites that were taking the indian's land -
The British Burn Washington DC
The British Invaded Washington DC and Burn down the White house and the town during the War of 1812 -
Era of Good Feelings
This is after the war of 1812 and a time where there was only one major political party. -
End of the War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right -
Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought on Sunday, January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham, and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson. -
Treaty of Ghent Radified
Ended the War of 1812 between Great Britain and America -
Hartford Convention
Series of meetings which the federalist party met to talk about the war of 1812 -
James Monroe Elected President
He studied law with Thomas Jefferson he became the fifth president of the United States. -
Rush-Bagot Treaty
The Rush–Bagot Treaty or Rush–Bagot Disarmament was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812 -
Anglo-American Convention
Oregon was split for 10 years between US and Britain -
Adams-Onis Treaty
The Adams-Onís Treaty 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. -
McCulloch vs Maryland
This is where Maryland tried to destroy the federal bank by taxing it to destroy it. -
Panic of 1819
Banks across the country kept failing mortgages were foreclosed forcing people off their farms and homes. -
Dartmouth College V Woodward
This was about a charter that was developed by king george that was being revisited by the American Government. -
Missouri compromise
This was the compromise that said above the 30* 60* line there wouldn't be any more slavery allowed. -
Charles B. Finny Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York
He was the leader of the Second Great Awakening in the United States. -
Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt
Most extensive slave result in United States History -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. -
John Quincy Adams Elected President (Corrupt Bargain)
This is the election where Jackson won the popular vote but did not get the necessary amount of electoral votes and was put off to the House of REP. -
gibbons v ogden
Decision made by the supreme court to make the decision of this to be made by state and not federal unless commerce between states. -
Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community
established the village as his preliminary model for a utopian community -
Erie Canal Was Completed
Connected Lake Erie to The Hudson River -
Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”
He was a minister, leading revivalist and social reformer. Lyman Beecher helped build the organizations that became known as the "benevolent empire" -
Tariff of Abominations
In order to make American industry more prominent in America, these tariffs were put in place. -
Andrew Jackson Elected President
7th president of the United States he was part of the Democratic Party -
Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers
She published an essay on why women are great teachers and the imporance of women in teaching. -
Indian Removal Act
This allowed the United States to move the Native Americans from their land and move them west. -
Worcester V Georgia
This said that native americans cannot be moved from their lands, but was done anyways because Jackson didn't follow this ruling. -
Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-charter of the Second Bank of the United States
which was a blow against monopoly, aristocratic parasites, and foreign domination, as well as great victory for labor -
Black Hawk War
This was a brief conflict between the US and Native Americans led by Black Hawk -
Creation of the Whig Party in The US
This party was started by Henry Clay and eventually turned into the Republican Party -
Nullification Crisis Began
The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina -
Treaty of New Echota
It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. -
Texas Declared Independence from Mexico
This occured after the revolution of texas in which they succeeded from mexico and started their own country. -
First McGuffey Reader Published
The First Widely used textbooks in the United States. -
Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege -
Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular
This required payment for government land to be in gold and silver. -
Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s -
Martin Van Buren Elected President
Eighth president of the United States and was one of the founders of the Democratic party. -
Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Members of the church were called Latter Day Saints and changed the name to Church of Jesus Christ -
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”
The "Divinity School Address" is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838 -
Trail of Tears Began
This was a part of Jackson's Indian Removal Policy. This forced the Cherokee Indians to give up their land east of the Mississippi -
John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community
An American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Treaty to solve the issues and fightings in the north with Britian and modern day Canada -
Treaty of Wanghia with China
The Treaty of Wanghia was a diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States. Its official title name is the Treaty of peace, amity, and commerce, between the United States of America and the Chinese Empire. -
James Polk Elected President
Democratic which defeated Whig party Henry Clay in election -
Beginning of Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable -
U.S. Annexation of Texas
Polk gained texas through annexation as was the biggest annexation to America to date. -
Start of the Mexican War
Armed Conflict between United States and Mexico -
Bear Flag Revolt
The California Republic was an unrecognized breakaway state that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California -
Gold Rush Began in California
when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This added 525,000 square miles to the US after the War with Mexico -
Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education
Inspired by the Whig Party.This law is not local, but universal; not temporary, but eternal is one of his central themes -
Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to the U.S.
Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world -
Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience
In 1846, the United States declared war against Mexico. Thoreau and other Northern critics of the war viewed it as a plot by Southerners to expand slavery into the Southwest -
Gadsden Purchase
This was a purchase that bought parts of present day Arizona from Mexico. -
Kanagawa Treaty
opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan. -
Transcontinental Club First Meeting
the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads
