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President Timeline by Trevor
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George Washington
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French Revolution
The French people rebelled against the
King and rich people, at first most
Americans supported the revolt,
but when it turned violent, the American
public split into some who supported it
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Ratification of the constatuiton
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Ratification of the bill of rights
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Neutrality Proclamation
The U.S. said that they would stay
out of foreign policy. They wanted
to stay neutral in France’s rebellion.
However, since the U.S. signed a
treaty with France, the French
expected the U.S. to let them use
their ports for supplies. Then the
U.S. made the Neutrality Proclamation.
This said that the U.S. would remain
neutral and it forbade any American
from helping either side. -
Cotten Gin
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Whiskey Rebellion
Taxes were put on all luxury items,
including whiskey. Farmers found it
cheaper to ship their wheat once it
was turned into whiskey.
Unfortunately, the new tax made it
expensive so the farmers refused to
pay the taxes. Washington sent
troops in to put down the rebellion.
Washington’s actions showed the
citizens that they must obey national laws. -
Jay's Treaty
The French hoped Britain would make
America angry enough to start war. Then
the French learned that the Americans sent a delegate
over to England. They took this as a sign of treason.
After the British stopped capturing U.S.
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Washington's Farewell Adress
At the end of his second term, Washington
decided to retire. During his address, he
gave America some final advice. “Do not
get involved with another nation’s affairs.”
When the French signed a treaty with America
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John Adams
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XYZ Afair
After John Adams was elected,
France got mad at the U.S. for
signing Jay’s Treaty. They saw it as
an act of treason. John Adams sent
delegates to France to smooth things
over. When they got there they were
met by three French delegates. The
French delegates said that the Americans
would have to pay to speak. This outraged
the U.S. A lot of people called for war. So
John Adams declared a half war. -
Alien and Sedition Act
After John Adams refused to declare war on
France after the XYZ Affair people started
calling him names like a coward. John Adams
did not take criticism well, so he made the bad
diction of making it illegal to speak badly about
the government or its officials. A lot of people
argued with this. They said that congress had
gone beyond the Constitution. The good thing
is that the act eventually was repealed. -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolution
After the Alien and Sedition Act, Thomas Jefferson
and James Madison argued with Congress. They
said that Congress had gone beyond the Constitution.
They said that the states wrote the Constitution and so
they could choose which laws to follow. However,
the Kentucky and Virginia act failed and died. -
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Thomas Jefferson
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Marbury v. Madison
The last night of John Adams Presidency
he tried to appoint a judge to the Judicial
Branch. Thomas Jefferson, as the soon to
be, president ordered Madison not to deliver
the papers. The whole Marbury vs. Madison
thing was held in the Supreme Court. In the
end the court ruled against Marbury. This
is very important because it created the
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Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson wanted to purchase
New Orleans so that farmers could
ship more goods. Because he needed
money Napoleon offered all of Louisiana.
Some people did not like the idea
of buying territory from France,
because they thought that the
U.S. would be too big to govern,
and that Jefferson had no right to
buy it. In the end the U.S. doubled
in size. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The goal of this expedition was to
make friendly contact with Indian
tribes. However, the true goal was
to find the Northwest Passage. While
rowing up stream they found several
Indian tribes and they meet a French
fur trapper and his wife Sacagawea
but not the Northwest Passage. -
National Road System
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Impressment of Sailors
In an effort to get the U.S. to aid in
its war effort against France, Great
Britain made a habit of stopping
American ships sailing the Atlantic
Ocean and searching for British
sailors that had deserted the
Royal Navy. Many times, the
sailors they took were American
citizens. The entire event reached
its tipping point when
the American Ship, the Chesapeake,
was fired on and 21 American
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Piracy
The French colonies along the Barbary coast
of Africa made it a habit to stop all foreign
ship sailing near them and demanding that
the ship pay a bribe in order for the ships
to sail in the Barbary waters. Then the
Barbary Coast rulers declared war on the U.S.
and captured the Philadelphia and held the crew
for ransom. Americans soon raided the harbor and
freed their ship and sailors. Eventually a treaty
was struck and bribes were no longer demanded
and American sailors were returned -
Embargo Acts
After years of dealing with both France and
Great Britain’s abuse of our ship, Thomas Jefferson
decided to enact a law that made it illegal for
foreign ships to enter American harbors and
for American ships to sail anywhere except into
other American harbors. He hoped that this act
would avoid war but also teach the foreign nations
that they could no longer interfere with American ships.
The scheme back fired when so many American
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James Madison
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Battle of Tippecanoe
A Native American named Tecumseh was upset
that Americans were settling on Indian territory.
As a result, he and his brother, the Prophet, formed
a confederation made up of certain Indian tribes. However,
not all tribes joined the confederation. Americans sent
William Henry Harrison and 1,000 troops to stop them.
When the Prophet discovered this, he led a surprise attack
against them in the night. However, Harrison and his troops
defeated them, but both sides suffered major casualties. -
War of 1812
President Madison thought that if U.S. soldiers
marched into Canada they would be welcomed
as liberators. He was wrong, instead they were
meet with guns. During the war, the British wanted
payback for one of their forts being burned, so they
burned the White House down. The British then
headed to Baltimore. After this battle, an American
prisoner saw that the U.S. flag was still standing.
His name was Francis Scot Key. He wrote about the whole
battle with pure excitement that the flag was still -
Hartford Convention
Federalist form New England gathered at Hartford
to form a convention. The Federalist gathered because
they disliked the Republican president and they were
unhappy about the War of 1812. In the end they threatened
to leave the Union, but ended up falling apart after hearing
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James Monroe
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Building of the Erie Canal
The purpose of this canal was to let western
farmers ship there goods through the Great
Lakes and to New York. When people laughed
at the idea they started calling it Clinton’s Ditch.
However, this project was an instant success after
it was finished. -
American Colonization Society
President James Monroe supported this dumb
idea. The goal was to free slaves and resend them
to West Africa. This was a dumb idea because most
of the slaves were born in America. When the government
asked the slaves if they wanted to go home they were
confused. They said they were Americans because they
were born in America. This dumb act ended up failing. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri had trouble becoming a state because there was an
equal number of slave and free states. However, Henry Clay came
up with an idea. Missouri wanted to be a slave state,
Maine wanted to be a free state, so they could accept both into the Union
and still have a tie in the states. This was called the Missouri compromise. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe doctrine kept countries from retaking
independent colonies in America. If the Latin countries
ignored this, a lot of the U.S. would not be here.
This Doctrine showed that the U.S. would keep foreign
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Election of 1824
The election of 1824 started out with four men
running for President. (Jackson, Adams, Clay & Crawford)
None of the four received enough electoral votes to
win the Presidency. According to the Constitution,
the election goes to the House of Representative
to decide the winner. Only the top three vote- getters
are eligible to win, so Mr. Crawford dropped out.
The election was won by John Q. Adams, but Andrew Jackson
believed he should have won and accused Clay and Adams
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John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson
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Indian Removal Act
Settlers in America were interested in the land
owned by Native Americans in southern America.
At first, the government tried to buy the land,
but the Native Americans refused to sell and
the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Indians.
Nevertheless, President Jackson ordered the forced
removal of all Native Americans to sections in
present day Oklahoma. This became known as the
Trail of Tears because too do many Native Americans
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Nat Turner Uprising
Nat Turner was a slave and a minister who led a slave
uprising that resulted in the deaths of 57 white
Southerners. Turner and the slaves were hunted
down and killed. Even though the uprising was
not a success, it really scared white slave owners
and so they began to pass even stricter law in an
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Veto Charter of the Bank of the United States
The president of The Bank of the United States was Nicholas
Biddle. Andrew Jackson dis-liked the bank president
because he thought that he was an arrogant, vain man
and that he only supported the rich people. Congress
tried to trick Jackson by sending the bank renewal order
just before the election, thinking that he would not
turn them down. Jackson avoided the
trick by vetoing the renewal anyways. -
Panic of 1837
The Bank of the United States had sold land in the
west before it was closed. The buyers of the land had
borrowed money from the state banks. They had hoped
to gain huge profit from the land. However, Jackson closed
the Bank of the US. With no limit to the money they could
give, state banks printed more money. To stop this, Jackson
passed a law that said you had to pay with gold or silver to
get land. So buyers hurried to the state banks to convert their
money. However, the state banks did not h -
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Martain Van Buren
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Willam Henry Harrison
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John Tyler
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Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail started in Independence, Missouri and ended
in Oregon. This trip was 2,000 miles, that’s 5 months of travel!
On the trail people traveled by wagon trains. You basically packed
up everything you owned in a very small wagon, strapped a horse to
it and took turns riding. This trip was very dangerous for the settlers.
They risked dying by drowning, extreme heat or freezing.
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James K Polk
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Manifest Destiny
The United States thought that God’s plan for the
U.S. was to expand all the way to the Pacific. This
was good for America, but not too good if you were
a Mexican or a Native American. In the end, the Mexicans
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Annexation of Texas
The president of Texas, Sam Huston, wanted the U.S. to
do two things after it gained its independence. One, pay
off the debt Texas had, and two, accept Texas as a state.
Congress had two reasons for not accepting Texas as a state.
One, there was still a tie in slave and free states, and two, it
would start war with Mexico. When the U.S. accepted Texas
as a state they ended up at war with Mexico. After the U.S. won
this war, they gained California, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Arizona,
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Mormons Settle Utah
Mormons are a group of Christians with different beliefs.
Because of that, they were opposed everywhere they went.
So Brigham Young Lead them west. They ended up in the
Valley of Great Salt Lake. The problem was that this was
in the middle of the desert. This meant it was
hard to grow plants because there was not much water, it was
cold in the winter and hot in the summer. However, by making a
irrigation system, they managed to survive and make a large city. -
Gold Rush
The discovery of gold in California brought people
from all over the world and all over the U.S. to
California in the pursuit of striking it rich. The population
of California grew so fast that it became a state long
before other western territories. Along with gold,
the rush also resulted in: a more diverse population,
the displaced of Native Americans from their land,
and a lot of economic opportunities. -
The Free Soil Party
With the birth of the Free Soil Party, slavery was a
national issue for the first time in an American election.
The Free Soil Party was formed in order to keep the
spread of slavery out of the western territories.
While the party did win some Congressional
Seats, it was unsuccessful in its bid for the Presidency.
