1800 - 1876

By Jacob Parkman

  • The Republicans defeated Adams in the 1800 Presidential election

  • Jefferson won the 1800 election

  • In the Marbury v. Madison case established the power of the Supreme court to perform judicial reviews

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Native American leaders Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh forge an alliance

  • Great Britain demands that American ships pay a transit duty before shipping to France

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    Britain, Frances, and others seize around nine hundred American ships

  • Embargo Act of 1807 is signed into law

  • The United States ends its legal participation in the global slave trade

  • The Embargo Act of 1807 is repealed by Congress

  • Supreme Court extends judicial review to state laws

  • The Shawnee Indians are defeated at the battle of Tippecanoe by Major General William Henry Harrison

  • The United States Declared war on Great Britain

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    War of 1812

  • American naval forces secure control of the Great Lakes

  • Shawnee chief Tecumseh dies on the battlefield of Moraviantown, Ontario

  • The USS Constitution defeats the British HMS Guerriere

  • Captain Philip Broke of the HMS Shannon destroyed the USS Chesapeake

  • Americans defeat the British at Lake Champlain

  • The British Burned Washington, D.C.

  • The United States and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Ghent

  • The British achieve a naval victory at lake Borgne

  • Jackson defeats the British forces at the Battle of New Orleans

  • Congressman John C. Calhoun calls for internal development projects across the nation

  • Jackson orders the execution of two British subjects, causing an international diplomatic crisis

  • White settlers in the territory of Missouri apply for statehood

  • Spain accepts the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819

  • The Missouri compromise is passed

  • President James Monroe issues a declaration that both North and South America was off-limits to further European colonization

  • Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams in the 1828 Presidential election

  • A special South Carolina state convention nullified the federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832

  • President Jackson vetoes the bill to renew the Bank of the United States' charter

  • Massachusetts stopped giving support to official religious denomination

  • Henry Clay brokers a deal with Calhoun that culminates in a compromise bill to slowly lower federal tariff rates

  • South Carolina rescinds the tariff nullification but nullifies the Force Bill

  • Jackson directs his cabinet to stop depositing federal funds in the Bank of the United States

  • Congresses passes the Force Bill

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    Trail of Tears

  • New York Banks stop redeeming their notes for gold and silver

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    1.7 million Irish fled the famine in their home country and immigrated to the US

  • New Hampshire passes a statewide ten-hour-workday law

  • Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as 14th President of the United States

  • Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana secede from the United States

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    The Civil War

  • Texas secedes from the Union

  • Confederate forces attack Ft. Sumter; The Civil War Begins

  • The Emancipation Proclamation is issued

  • Lincoln is assassinated

  • The United States buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million

  • President Jackson is impeached

  • The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

  • Ulysses S. Grant is sworn in as 18th President

  • Fifteenth Amendment to the Amendment is ratified

    This Amendment gives Black Americans the right to vote.

  • The Chicago fire kills about 300 people, and destroys homes of 90,000 more

  • Grant is elected President for a second term

  • Custer's regiment is slaughtered by Sioux Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn