1800-1860

By Bradyfro1
  • Thomas Jefferson Elected

    Thomas Jefferson Elected

    Thomas Jefferson was elected
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

    war hawks lead America into a war with Britain over Jay's Treaty
    It creates a sense of nationalism and legitimizes the USA
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

    McCulloch v. Maryland

    a court case that occurred when Maryland tried to tax the national bank to death. It established that the federal government has more power than the states do
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    It was a boarder on Missiouri, every state above the line was a slave free state and every state below the line was slave states. It started problems because what if the slaves left and went across the line, are they free ?
  • Andrew Jackson Elected

    Andrew Jackson Elected

    Andrew Jackson was elected
  • The Liberator Begins publication

    The Liberator Begins publication

    American abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp.
  • Nullification Crisis

    Nullification Crisis

    It was a protective tariff established by the government. It lead to a fight when South Carolina refused to pay theirs
  • Tocqueville Publishes Democracy in America

    Tocqueville Publishes Democracy in America

    It was a book by a Frenchman that observed America's societal changes and shifts in democracy. IT showed what other countries thought of the American democratic revolution
  • Emerson publishes self-reliance

    Emerson publishes self-reliance

    It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency
  • Dorothea dix visits her first jail with insane inmates

    Dorothea dix visits her first jail with insane inmates

  • Frederick Dougless publishes his autobiogragphy

    Frederick Dougless publishes his autobiogragphy

    This is when Dougless published his life being a slave.
  • Seneca falls convention

    Seneca falls convention

  • Fugitive slave act

    Fugitive slave act

    It allowed Southerners to retrieve their runaway slaves from the North forces.The Northerners to recognize the reality of what is going on
  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin

    It was a bestselling novel about an escaped slave mother and her son, by white author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It creates sympathy among white people
  • Thoreau publishes walden

    Thoreau publishes walden

    It is a book written by Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
  • whitman publishes leaves of grass

    whitman publishes leaves of grass

    The book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures.
  • Dred Scott decision

    Dred Scott decision

    a slave who sues his owner because he isn't freed after moving north. Scott technically wins, but a law is passed preventing slaves from going to court
  • John Brown Attack's Harper's Ferry

    John Brown Attack's Harper's Ferry

    He believes he is God's sword of vengeance against slavery
    It made a failed attempt to raid the Harper's Ferry weaponry and is eventually hanged. It also made white Northerners turn him into an abolitionist martyr
  • Abraham Lincoln Elected

    Abraham Lincoln Elected

    Abraham Lincoln was elected
  • Civial War Begins

    Civial War Begins

    The start of the Civial war