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The United States Census of 1800
It showed that 5,308,483 people were living in the United States, of whom 893,602 were slaves. The 1800 Census included the new District of Columbia.The census for the following states were lost: Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia. This would be the last census in which Virginia was the most populous state. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government. The Republican minority in Congress complained that these acts violated the First Amendment to the Constitution, which protected freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Since Jefferson’s victory over Adams, all of the Alien and Sedition Acts had been repealed. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of territory by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars,the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. The Louisiana Purchase extended United States sovereignty across the Mississippi River, nearly doubling the nominal size of the country. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition(1805-06)
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it. The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to establish trade with local American Indian tribes. -
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. This legislation was promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, who called for its enactment in his 1806 State of the Union Address. It reflected the force of the general trend toward abolishing the international slave trade which Virginia, followed by all the other states, had prohibited or restricted since then. -
War of 1812
Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. The tensions that caused the War of 1812 arose from the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.During this nearly constant conflict between France and Britain, American interests were injured by each of the two countries’ endeavours to block the United States from trading with the other. -
Burning of Washington
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.The Burning of Washington marks the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power has captured and occupied the United States capital. -
Battle of New Orleans
between British troops led by General Edward Pakenham and American forces led by General Andrew Jackson.The battle took place directly after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814, before news of the treaty could reach the United States. American troops defeated a poorly executed British assault on New Orleans in slightly more than 30 minutes, despite the British having a large advantage in training, experience, and fielded troops. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty; his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings. James Monroe is known for his "Monroe Doctrine," disallowing further European colonization in the Americas. -
Missouri Compromise
was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. -
Denmark Vesey
He was accused and convicted of being the leader of "the rising", a major potential slave revolt planned for the city in June 1822. He was executed shortly thereafter. Vesey won a lottery and purchased his freedom around the age of 32. He had a good business and a family, but was unable to buy his first wife Beck and their children out of slavery. Vesey became active in the Second Presbyterian Church. -
The Monroe Doctrine
Was a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." The Doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved, or were at the point of gaining, independence from the Portuguese and Spanish Empires.
