1800-1876

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    Second Great Awakening

  • Election of 1800

    Jefferson won
  • Marbury vs Madison

    Ruled Judiciary Act of 1790 unconstitutional
  • Treaty of Cession

    Gained the Louisiana Purchase
  • 12th Amendment

    Election Ammendment
  • Steam Boat

    Robert Fulton "Clermont"
  • Election of 1808

    James Madison won
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Introduced William Henry Harrison
  • War of 1812

    War against Britian
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    Manifest Destiny

  • Surrendered Detroit

    Immediate defeat of American Army
  • Battle of Lake Erie

  • Battle of Thames

    Retook Detroit
  • Ft McHenry

    Francis Scott Key
  • Treaty of Ghent

    Ended the War of 1812
  • Second Bank of the United States

    Located in Philadelphia
  • Tariff of 1816

    Helped the struggling companies of the U. S.
  • Rush-Bagot Pact

    Eliminated British fleets from the Great Lakes
  • Convention of 1818

    Set US-British boundary at 49th parrallel
  • Panic of 1819

    First major depression
  • McColloch v Maryland

    Necessary and Proper
  • Missouri Compromise

    Dealt with slavery. Set a boundary that all states above the line would be free and all states below would be slave states.
  • Harriet Tubman

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    Transcendentalism

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Henry David Thoreau
    Margaret Fuller
    Walt Whitman
  • Cohens v Virginia

    Which court has final say
  • Election of 1824

    John Quincey Adams won
  • Gibbons v Ogden

    Regulate commerce between states
  • Erie Canal

  • Tariff of 1828

    Enraged the South
  • Election of 1828

    Andrew Jackson won
  • Webste-Hayne Debate

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    55-60 whites killed
  • Cyrus McCormick

    Mechanized grain harvester
  • Cherokee Nation v Georgia

    Declared the Cherokees to be a domestic dependent nations
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail the Indians were forced to take when being removed from their land.
  • The Liberator

    William Lloyd Garrison
  • Bank War

    Ended in the death of the bank
  • Worcester v Georgia

    Sided with Cherokees
  • American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Treaty of New Echota

    A few Cherokees sold the Cherokee nation's land to the US
  • Election of 1836

    Martin Van Buren won
  • Texas Independence Declared

  • Alamo

  • First Steel Plow

    John Deere
  • Charles River Bridge Co v Warren Bridge Co

    Legislature charter
  • Panic of 1837

    Due to the shutting down of the Second Bank of America
  • Independent Treasury Act

  • Election of 1840

    William Henry Harrison
  • Brook Farm

    Experimental farm with many bright minds
  • Dorethea Dix

    Discovered insane women jailed alongside male criminals. Set out to change
  • Catherine Beecher

    Treatis on Domestic Economy
  • Great Migration

  • Election of 1844

    James Polk Won
  • Rainbow

    First clipper ship. Built for speed.
  • California Independence

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Us pays Mexico $15 million for more than 1/3 of their territory
  • Sutter's Fort

  • First women's rights convention

  • Compromised of 1850

    Fugitive Slave Act
    California admitted as a free state
    Resolved boundary dispute
    Abolish slave trade in DC
    Slave decision - popular sovereignty
  • Period: to

    Underground Railroad height

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Election of 1852

    Franklin Pierce won
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Period: to

    Bleeding Kansas

    War for free or slave Kansas
  • Election of 1856

    James Buchanan won
  • Dred Scott v Stanford

    Heated up the slavery debate
  • Dred Scott v Sanford

    African Americans were not US citizens
  • Ableman v Booth

    Fugitive slave law - void in Wisconsin
  • John Brown's Raid

    Slave Revolution
  • 1860 Convention

    Winner Lincoln
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    Succession

    South Carolina
    Mississippi
    Florida
    Alabama
    Georgia
    Louisiana
    Texas
    Virginai
    Arkansas
    North Carolina
    Tennessee
  • Confederate States of America

  • First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

    Confederate Victory
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Union Victory
  • Second Battle of Bulll Run

    Confedarate Victory
  • Battle of Antietam

    Winner: Inconclusive
  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Confederate Victory
  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Confederate Victory
  • Battle of Vicksburg

    Union Victory
  • Gettysburg

    Union Victory
  • Battle of Chattanooga

    Union Victory
  • Election of 1864

    Abraham Lincoln won
  • Wilderness Campaign

    Inconclusive
  • Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse

    Inconclusive
  • Battle of Atlanta

    Union victory
  • Surrender

    Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House
  • Sherman's March to sea