1800-1876

By TimGreen

  • United States Military Academy founded

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Robert Fulton's steamboat makes first trip

  • Importation of slaves made illegal

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner

  • White House burned by British

  • Missouri Compromise

    creates compromise between slave and free states

  • Monroe Doctrine

    first important foreign affair policy dealing with America's interaction with other countries

  • Samuel Morey invents internal combustion engine

  • Mormon Church formed by Joseph Smith

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

  • Battle for the Alamo

  • Texas annexed to the US

  • Department of the Interior created

  • Compromise of 1850

    last bill introduced by Henry Clay

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

  • Dred Scott case ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in states

  • Pony Express founded

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes President

  • President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    abolishes slavery

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    extends voting rights to black Americans

  • Civil Rights Act passed by Congress

  • Battle of Little Bighorn