1800-1876

  • U.S. Congress meets

    first time
  • The third president

    Thomas Jefferson
  • Supreme Court decision

  • Louisiana Purchase

    spend 15 million dollars in buying the Louisiana from France
  • Lewis and Clark

    Found the way to the Pacific Ocean.
  • The fouth president

    James Madison
  • Period: to

    War of 1812

    USA and Britain
  • Treaty of Ghent

    War of 1812 ended
  • the fifth president

    James Monroe
  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Articles of Confederation

    the first U.S. constitution
  • the sixth president

    John Quincy Adams
  • the seventh president

    Andrew Jackson
  • Indian Removal Act

  • the eighth president

    Martin Van Buren
  • the ninth president

    William Henry Harrison
  • manifest destiny

    John L. O'Sullivan
  • U.S. annexes Texas by joint resolution of Congress

  • Oregon Treaty

    U.S. acquires Oregon territory.
  • Period: to

    Mexican War

  • the 12th president

    Zachary Taylor
  • Enact a law to hunt down fugitives

    Suppression of the abolitionist movement
  • Perry led to Japan, and the following year, he coerced Japan into signing a treaty open to US ships

  • The United States forced the Qing government of China to conclude the China-US Tianjin Treaty.

  • Seven southern states form the U.S. Federal League

  • American Civil War

  • Declaration of Liberation

  • The Confederate army surrendered and the American Civil War ended.

  • President Lincoln was killed while watching a movie at the Washington Ford Theater and died the next day.

  • The United States purchased Alaska and the Aleutian Islands from Tsarist Russia, thereby expanding the US border to the Arctic Ocean.

  • The Central Pacific Railway and the United Pacific Railway were officially connected in Promontole, Utah, becoming the first transcontinental railway.