1800-1876 By 1ily76 Period: 1801 to 1805 Tripolitan war Period: 1801 to 1806 Thomas Jefferson 1803 Louisiana Purchase Period: 1804 to 1806 Lewis and Clark explore northern half of the Louisiana territory 1806 Zebulon Pike explores southern half of Louisiana Territory 1807 Robert Fulton builds first practical steamboat 1808 U.S. abolishes slave trade 1809 Non Intercourse Act Period: 1809 to 1817 James Madison 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe Period: 1812 to 1815 War of 1812 1815 Battle of New Orleans Period: 1817 to 1825 James Monroe 1821 Independence from Mexico Period: 1825 to 1829 John Quincy Adams Period: 1829 to 1837 Andrew Jackson 1830 Indian Removal Act 1832 Black Hawk’s War 1833 Compromise Tariff Period: 1837 to 1841 Martin Van Buren Period: 1841 to 1845 John Tyler 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican War 1848 First women’s rights convention is held 1849 California Gold Rush Period: 1850 to 1853 Millard Fillmore 1854 Kansas- Nebraska Act Period: 1857 to 1861 James Buchanan 1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln 1861 Telegraph lines link East and West Period: 1861 to 1865 Civil War 1863 Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Gettysburg Adress 1865 13th Amendment 1865 Abraham Lincoln Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Era 1868 14th Amendment 1869 South Carolina secedes from Union Period: 1869 to 1877 Ulysses S. Grant Period: 1877 to 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes