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First Census
Congress meets in Philadelphia and plans a new capital on the Potomac. Seneca chief Cornplanter appeals to Pres. Washington to abide by the land boundaries set in the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. -
Bill of Rights is Ratifies
Vermont enters the Union as the 14th state. Benjamin banneker writes Jefferson to apply the Declaration's principles to enslaved people. -
Presidential Elections
The first state to grant universal manhood suffrage. Washington and Adams are re-elected president and vice-pres. -
Northwest Territory
Spain allows the U.S. navigation rights on the Mississippi River. The 31th parallel is set as the border between the U.S. and the Spanish empire -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Restrict political opposition and order deportation of "dangeroud aliens". Eli Whitney opens factory to build rifles for the U.S. government using his system of interchangeable parts. -
Second Census
Federal capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. A new Land Act provided credit and low down payments for buying land in the Northwest Territory, opening the area to greater settlement. -
Louisiana Territory
Purchased from France fro $15 million, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Supreme Court declares its right to review the constitutionality of acts of Congress. -
Ban on Slave Trade
Embargo Act is passed by Congress in response to British and French interference with U.S. trade, Jefferson orders British warships to leave U.S. waters after British attack the
Chesapeake. Impressment continues approximately 1,000 U.S. seamen are pressed annually into the British navy. -
Presidential Election
The Osage tribe cedes its lands in Missouri and Arkansas regions to the U.S. The U.S. ships and cargoes in European ports are confiscated by France. -
Presidential Election
Embargo Act is repealed, Congress allows trade with all countries except France and Britain. Abraham Lincoln is born. -
Third census
Construction of Cumberland Road begins in Maryland, reaches Vandalia, Illinois, in1840 -
Presidential Election
U.S. defeats British in the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames. British seize Fort Niagara, burn Buffalo, NY, and blockade coastal ports. -
Presidential Election
British attack and burn Washington D.C. U.S. wins Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor -
Old Southwest
Opened to migration of American settlers after the defeat of the Indians in the Creek War -
Old Southwest
African Methodist Episcopak Church is established by Rev. Richard Allen in Phyiladelphia -
Presidential Election
James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins are elected presidemt and vise president -
First Seminole War
U.S. and Britain demilitarize the Great Lakes, set the northern U.S. border at the 49th parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mts., and agree to joint custody of the Oregon Territory. Erie Canal construction begins and completed in 1825, it connects the Great lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys with the Hudson River and thus the Atlantic Ocean. -
First Semionole War
Gen. Andew Jackson leads troops into Floride to fight the Seminoles. Connecticut abolished property ownership as a requirement for voting. -
Missouri Compromise
allows admission of and Missouri as a slave state, and bans slavery in the Louisiana Territory. Maine enters the Union as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise.
