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Jefferson and Bur tie and the vote is up to Congress. James Bayard and Alexander Hamilton support Jefferson. Marked a peaceful transition of power from one political party to another.
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The President and Vice President run as a ticket.
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Arron Burr and Alexander Hamilton dueled on July 11, 1804. Hamilton is shot by Burr and dies shortly after from the wound. Burr is charged with murder, so he flees.
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Arron Burr attempted to carve out his own legacy by creating his own country in the Southwest. Burr then gets arrested for treason, but gets aquitted.
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Jefferson did not run for a third term. James Madison won the election.
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On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war against Britain.
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The charter for the First Bank of the United States had expired back in 1811. The war of 1812, proved the necessity of a central banking system, and so the Second Bank of the United States received its charter in 1816. The Second Bank of the United States was located in Philadelphia.
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This tariff was a protective tariff to protect United States industry against the threat of cheap Brittish goods after the war. The tariff was only authorized for three years, but it became permanent in 1820. This tariff, however, harmed Southern farmers, as the South was not yet industrialized.
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This treaty removed British fleets from the Great Lakes.
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This convention set the boundary between the United States and British North America at the 49th parallel. Thus giving us the Oregon territory.
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This was the first major depression in the United States, caused by poor banking policies. The abrupt drop in world agricultural prices meant that planters and farmers could not pay their debts.
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Missouri wanted to enter the Union with a constitution that allowed slavery. The compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. The compromise also set the 36th parallel as the Missouri compromise line. States below the line would enter the Union as a state that allows slavery, and the states above the line would enter the Union as a state that prohibited slavery.
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Five Republican candidates: John Quincy Adams, John C Calhoun, William Crawford, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson. In the end, a "corrupt bargain" wins John Quincy Adams the presidency.
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This was the most famous slave rebellion. On August 22, 1831, Nat Turner along with 70 armed slaves and free blacks slaughtered white neighbors who had enslaved them. They attacked 15 homes, and killed between 55 to 60 whites.
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Supreme Court case declared Indian peoples to be "domestic dependent nations"
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This treaty gave the Cherokees land in Oklahoma, but it forced them to move. This move devastated the Cherokee tribe in what is known as the Trail of Tears.
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Whig party candidate William Henry Harrison won the election against the incumbent president Martin Van Buren. Harrison died shortly after from an illness, and vice president John Tyler became the "accidental" president.
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Democrat candidate James K. Polk versus Whig candidate Henry Clay. Polk won the election with 170 electoral votes. This election would determine the path that American policy would follow with California, Oregon, and Texas.
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In December 1845, Texas became the 28th state to join the Union. Mexico then broke off diplomatic relations with the United States that very same year.
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At the end of the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted the United States about a third of Mexican land in exchange for $15 million.
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- Fugitive Slave Act (designed to mollify the South)
- California admitted as a free state (to satisfy the North)
- resolved a boundary dispute
- Abolished the slave trade in D.C.
- popular sovereignty to decide the slavery dispute in New Mexico and Utah
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The slavery conflict split the Whig party. Democrat Franklin Pierce won the election.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was an abolitionist novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel evoked empathy and outrage throughout the North.
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- repealed the Missouri compromise line
- Formed two new territories, Nebraska and Kansas
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The Republican Party denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and nominated Colonel Joun C Fremont. The American Party did not take a stance on slavery and ended up splitting. The Democrats nominated James Buchanan. Buchanan won the election.
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The Democrats were split between Stephen Douglas and John C Breckinridge. The Republicans nominated Lincoln, and Lincoln won the election.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20th, 1860, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennesee.
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The Battle of Bull Run took place on July 16th, 1861. This was the first major battle of the Civil War. The Union forces were defeated. A famous Confederate general got the nickname "Stonewall" Jackson. The battle proved the Confederacy was a force to be reconed with.
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Union General John Pope is cut off. Pope attacks Jackson and fails, but the Union forces are able to escape.
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Confederate General Johnston vs. Union General Grant. The Union forces were surprised by the attack, but were able to hold. In the end, the battle was a clear-cut Union victory.
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This battle was the largest concentration of troops in the war. It was General Lee vs. General Burnside. This battle resulted in yet another Confederate Victory.
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This was the first ever battle between ironclad ships, the CSS Virginia vs. the USS Monitor. The battle was inconclusive since neither ship could sink the other. This battle ushered in the modern age of the navy.
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This was the single most bloody day in United States military history. There were repeated Union attacks and Confederate counterattacks. The results were inconclusive, but Lincoln claimed the battle as a Union victory.
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Union General George Meade vs Confederate General Robert E Lee. The battle ended in a Union victory. At this point the war began winding down.
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Grant sieged the city from May 18th to July 4th, 1863.
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The Confederates won the battle, but it was here that Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by one of his own men. Jackson died 10 days later from pnemonia.