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2nd Great Awakening
The 2nd Great Awakening was significant because it influenced many reform movements such as abolitionism and temperance. -
Embargo Act 1807
The Embargo Act 1807 was significant because it prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. -
Nonintercourse Act 1809
The Nonintercourse Act 1809 was significant because it lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was significant because it effectively destroyed the Indians' ability to resist American expansion east of the Mississippi River and the war allowed the United States to rewrite its boundaries with Spain and solidify control over the lower Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. -
Battle Lake Erie
The Battle Lake Erie was significant because it allowed America to gain control of Lake Erie, preventing the British from penetrating the middle of the United States. -
Hartford Convention 1814
The Hartford Convention 1814 was significant because it ended the federalist party the the War of 1812 ended. -
Treaty of Ghent 1814
The Treaty of Ghent 1814 was significant because it was a peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States. -
Antebellum Period
The Antebellum Period was significant because the technological advances and religious and social movements during the period, had a profound effect on the course of American history -
Tariff of 1816
The Tariff of 1816 was significant because it was the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition. -
Asylum Movement
The Asylum Movement was significant because it was the first effort to change the way that people approached the mentally ill and improved the way that the mentally ill were treated. Its purpose was to emphasize treatment and rehabilitation. -
Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819 was significant because it was the first financial crisis in the United States and some historians have called it the first Great Depression. -
Adams-Onis Treaty 1819
The Adams-Onis Treaty 1819 was significant because Adams insisted the United States boundaries be extended to the Pacific Ocean, gaining Florida. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was significant because it marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War. It also added Missouri as a slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine 1823
The Monroe Doctrine 1823 was significant because it made sure Europe would have no intervention within the Western Hemisphere and likewise the United States would not become entangled in European affairs. -
Revolution of 1828
The Revolution of 1828 was significant because the election marked the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The Indian Removal Act 1830 was significant because it authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
“The Liberator”
“The Liberator” was significant because it was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history. -
Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was significant because it was when the entire economy crashed in the United States because banks ran out of money entirely but, it changed the federal banking systems to make sure that wouldn't happen again. -
Women’s Rights Movement
The Women’s Rights Movement was significant because it resulted in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote. -
Seneca Falls Convention ‘48
The Seneca Falls Convention ‘48 was significant because it was the first women's rights convention in the United States that launched the women's suffrage movement.
