U.S History

By Lexee

  • 1789-GOVT. UNDER THE CONSTITUTION BEGINS

    1789-GOVT. UNDER THE CONSTITUTION BEGINS
    Washington is inaugurated.
    Suggestions for addressing the president include "excellency" and "Highness."

  • 1790-FIRST CENUS

    1790-FIRST CENUS
    Congress meets in Philadelphia and plans a new capital on the Potomac.
    First petition t congress to emancipate slaves is submitted by Quakers.

  • 1791- BILL OF RIGHTS IS RATIFIED

    1791- BILL OF RIGHTS IS RATIFIED
    Vermont enters the Union as the 14th state.
    First bank of the United States is chartered for a twenty-year period.

  • 1792-PRESIDENTAL ELECTION

    1792-PRESIDENTAL ELECTION
    Washington and Adams are re-elected president and vice president.
    Kentucky enters the Union as the 15th state; first state to grant universal manhood suffrage.

  • 1794-WHISKEY REBELLION

    1794-WHISKEY REBELLION
    Farmers in Western Pennsylvania protest the excise tax on whiskey, is put down by federal troops.U.S. troops defeat the Shawnee Indians near the Ohio River.

  • 1798-QUASI WAR

    1798-QUASI WAR
    Began when France attempted to bribe the U.S.
    Commissioners in Paris, sparking the building tension between the nation's.

  • 1800-SECOND CENUS

    1800-SECOND CENUS
    Federal capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
    Free African Americans petition Congress to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.

  • 1801-BARBARY WAR BEGINS

    1801-BARBARY WAR BEGINS
    Tripoli declares war on U.S.;Jefferson sens U.S. shops to the Mediterranean Sea. 25th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is celebrated.

  • 1805- BARBERY WAR ENDS

    1805- BARBERY WAR ENDS
    The war ended after U.S. troops captured Darna.
    Lewis and Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean.

  • 1807-BAN OF SLAVE TRADING

    1807-BAN OF SLAVE TRADING
    Passed by congress,as required by the constitution.
    Cotton is the U.S. leading export.

  • 1810- THIRD CENSUS.

    1810- THIRD CENSUS.
    U.S. population totals 7.2 million, including 1.4 million African Americans. 1.2 million African Americans were inslaved.

  • 1812-WAR OF 1812

    1812-WAR OF 1812
    The U.S. delcares war on Great Britian over issues of corders,trade,freedom of seas, and the rights of neutrals.
    Louisiana enters the Union as the 18th state.

  • 1815-OLD SOUTHWEST

    1815-OLD SOUTHWEST
    New England Federalists who opposed the War of 1812 consider secession but compromise at the recommending constitutional amandments to protect state sovereignty. General, Andrew Jackson defeats British at the Battle of New Orleans

  • 1817-FIRST SEMINOLE WAR

    1817-FIRST SEMINOLE WAR
    Began with attacks on settlers in Flordia and Georgia.
    Mississippi enters Union as the 20th state.

  • 1819-McCULLOCH v. MARYLAND

    1819-McCULLOCH v. MARYLAND
    Washington Irving publishes " Rip Van Winkle."
    Alabama enters the Union as the 22nd state.

  • 1820- FOURTH CENSUS

    1820- FOURTH CENSUS
    U.S. population totals 10 million, including 1.7 million African Americans. 6% of Americans live in cities.

  • 1823-MONROE DOCTRINE.

    1823-MONROE DOCTRINE.
    Europe is warned not to interfere in Western Hemisphere affairs.
    Cotton mills begin production in Lowell, Massachusetts, with water-powered machinery.