1800 1876

1800-1876

By BillyJHumphrey

  • Thomas Jefferson is elected 3rd President

  • Tripoli declares war against America

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery

  • Lewis and Clark begin their expedition and ends

  • Alexander Hamilton dies after a duel with Aaron Burr

  • Tripoli war against America ends

  • Aaron Burr is arrested for treason

  • James Madison is elected 4th President

  • The importation of slaves is outlawed

    Even though more than a half million slaves were illegally imported.

  • Declaring war against the United Kingdom

    James Madison asks Congress to declare war against the United Kingdom. Little did they know, they set up a blockade before they could even vote.

  • Going to war with Great Britian

    Congress declared war against Great Britain. Some states approved, while others said that they would not participate.

  • The Battle of York

  • America loses the Battle of Stoney Creek

  • The Battle of Lake Erie is won by America

  • America wins the Battle of Thames

  • White House is burned by the British

  • America wins the Battle of Lake Champlain

  • A peace treaty is signed between American and Britian at Ghent

  • The first railroad charter is granted

  • James Monroe is elected 5th President

  • The Construction of the Erie Canal begins

  • Panic of 1819

    The Panic of 1819 was America's first financial crisis.

  • The Missouri Compromise bill passes

  • John Quincy Adams is elected 6th President

  • Erie Canal is finished

  • The internal combustion engine is patented.

  • Andrew Jackson is elected 7th President

  • William Austin Burt patents the typewriter

  • Martin Van Buren is elected 8th President

  • The Battle for the Alamo

  • William Henry Harrison is elected 9th President

  • John Tyler becomes the 10th President after William Henry Harrison's death

  • James K. Polk is elected 11th President

  • Zachary Taylor is elected 12th President

  • Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President after Zachary Taylor's death

  • The debate on slavery escalates

  • Franklin Pierce is elected 14th President

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published

  • James Buchanan is elected 15th President

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th President

  • South Carolina secedes

    Shortly after President Abraham Lincoln's election, South Carolina seceded from the Union.

  • Mississippi secedes

  • Florida secedes

  • Alabama secedes

  • Georgia secedes

  • Louisiana secedes

  • Texas secedes

  • Confederacy is formed with Jefferson Davis as the President

  • Civil War begins

  • Fort Sumter marks the first battle in the Civil War

  • Virginia secedes

  • Arkansas secedes

  • North Carolina secedes

  • Tennessee secedes

  • Union wins the Battle of Shiloh

  • The Homestead act is approved

  • Battle of Antietam

    Considered the bloodiest battle in the Civil War

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    This was a huge turning point for the Union.

  • Andrew Johnson is elected 17th President

  • Union cuts railway supply line in Petersburg, eventually leading to the surrender of Robert E. Lee

  • Abraham Lincoln's Death

    Lincoln was murdered in the theater by John Wilkes Booth

  • The Civil War has officially ended

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment that abolished slavery was approved.

  • The Ku Klux Klan was secretly formed

  • Ulysses S. Grant is elected 18th President