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Religious revival among black and white Southerners in the 1790s. Free African Americans founded their own independant churches and demoninations.
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The Bill of Rights is ratified.
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Eli Whitney and Catherine Green made the cotton gin which made it possible to clean up to 50 pounds of cottons a day. Made cotton a very profitable crop.
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The first African American Baptist and Methodist churches were founded in Philadelphia by the Reverend Absalom Jones and the Reverand Richard Allen.
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Poor framers didn't want to pay excise tax. Washington used an army of 13,000 men to put them down.
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Treaty in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the U.S.
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Treaty with Britian in which the U.S. made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships.
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John Adams elected as president with Thomas Jefferson as vice president.
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Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, Virginia
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Jefferson buys a large amount of land from France for small sum of money.
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They charted the Louisiana territory and were the first Americans to reach the Pacific over land.
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Virginia tightens laws on manumission of slaves. Thre freed slave was required to leave the state within a year or be sold back into slavery.
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A bill to abolish the importation of slaves became law. Marking the end of the U.S.'s participation in the international slave trade. Small numbers of slaves were still smuggled in from Africa.
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In one of the swiftest migrations in American history, white Southerners and their slaves flooded into western Georgia and the areas that would become Alabama and Mississppi.
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James Monroe is elected president
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Congress charters Second Bank of the United States
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Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
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The most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and 75 conspirators were executed.
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Declaration by President James Monroe that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the U.S. would not interfere in the internal affairs of Europea nations.
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President Andrew Jackson's measure that allowed state officials to override federal protection of Native Americans. It appropriated funds for relocation of the Indians.
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William Lloyd Garrison begons publishing antislavery newspaper.
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Uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner that resulted in the death of 55 white people.
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A second way of westward expansion
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Sectional crisis in the early 1830s in which a states' rights party in South Carolina attemped to nullify federal law.
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Action of the British Government eliminating slavery on sugar plantations in the West Indies.
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A crowd broke into Charleston post office, made off with bundles of antislavery literature, and set an enormous bonfire, to fervent state and regional acclaim.
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In the South the state legislatures tightened black codes-laws concerning free black people. Free African Americans could not carry firearms, could not purchase slaves, and were liable to the criminal penalties meted out to slaves. They couldn't testify against whites, hold office, vote, or serve in the militia.
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Southners introduced a ''gag rule'' in Washington to prevent congressional consideration of abolitionist petitions.
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James Henry Hammond, a South Carolina congressman, delivered a major address to Congress in which he denied that slavery was evil. Instead he claimed that it had produced "the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth."
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U.S. recognizes the Republic of Texas.
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The forced march of the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Georgia to the Indian Territory in the West. They were escorted by a 7,000-man army and thousands died along the way.
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Thirty-six African slaves comitted mutiny and were tried for murder on the high seas. The court ruled that under Spanish law,the Mendians were considered free men and were sent back to Africa
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It raised the tariffs back to the 1832 status.
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A 2,000-mile historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.
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William Gregg opens a model textile mill in Graniteville, South Carolina. He was convinced that textile factories were a good way to diversify the southern economy and provide jobs for the poor whites who couldn't find work in the slave-dominated employment system.
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George Fitzhugh publishes Sociology for the South, a defense of slavery.
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Hinton Helper published an attack on slavery in The Impending Crisis
