1800-1876

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  • Election of 1800

    Jefferson and Burr both had 73 votes, and House of rehabilitation decides it

  • Washington DC become New capital

    moved from Philadelphia to Washington DC

  • Liberty of Congress

    Liberty of congress founded

  • The first Congressional meeting in DC

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    3rd U.S. president
    1801 - 1809

  • First Barbary war

  • John Marshall

    John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.

  • Treat of Cession, and purchase to the Louisiana

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Treaty of Cession

  • 12th Amendment, and Battle of Sitka

  • Burr and Hamilton met on dueling ground in Nj

  • Period: to

    Embargo in effect

  • Election of 1808

    Between James Madison and Charles Pickney. Jefferson decided not to run again

  • Slave trade ended

  • James Madison

    James Madison

    4th U.S. president
    1809 - 1817

  • Non-intercourse Act

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Declaration of War against Britain

  • surrendered Betroit without a shot

  • Creek War

    United States vs. Creek Indians

  • Battle of Lake Erie

  • Britain defeated Napoleon

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • British raid Chesapeake Bay

  • Ft McHenry

    25 hours of British bombardment Francis Scott Key

  • Treaty of Ghent

    what Britain does agree, border of Canada

  • British attacked New Orleans

  • established Second bank of the USA

  • Tariff of 1816

  • James Monroe

    James Monroe

    5th U.S. president
    1817 - 1825

  • Relationship between U.S. and Britain

    Rush-Bagot Pact

  • Convention of 1818

    between U.S. and Britain

  • Panic of 1819

    First major depression, poor banking policies

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Election of 1824

    5 candidates
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams

    6th U.S. president
    1825 - 1829

  • new Lebanon Convention

  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of Abominations
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    7th U.S. president
    1829 - 1837

  • Railroad era begins

  • Period: to

    Zenith

  • Cyrus Hall McCormick

    bring power to gain harvesting

  • Nat Turner's rebellion, and Liberator founded

  • Political miscalculaion

  • Nullification crisis

  • Force Bill

  • Whig party formed

  • Texas Revolution, and Republic of Texas established

  • War of Texas Independence

    Texas vs. Mexico
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    8th U.S. president
    1837 - 1841

  • moved to commerce, IL and renamed Navoo

  • Pioneer in employing women

    4000 worked

  • Cities and Town

    126 Towns of 2500 or more

  • Manifest Destiny, and Telegraph and railroads create a communications revolution

  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison

    9th U.S. president
    1841 - 1841
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    10th U.S. president
    1841 - 1845
  • James K. Polk

    James K. Polk

    11th U.S. president
    1845 - 1849

  • First clipper slip "Rainbow" built for speed

  • Mexican - American War - begins

  • Mexican War begins

  • Cyrus Hall McCormick

    Build manufacturer to himself

  • Mexican - American War - ends

  • Mexican war ended

    Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo ended Mexican War
    U.S. acquires California and territory of New Mexico which includes present-day Nevada, Utah, Arizona, new Mexico, and part of Colorado
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor

    12th U.S. president
    1849 - 1850

  • Gold discovered in California

  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore

    13th U.S. president
    1850 - 1853

  • Compromise of 1850, California admitted to the union, and Fugitive Slave Law strengthened

  • California admission to the US

  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce

    14th U.S. president
    1853 - 1857

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • Germans

    2000 more Germans come to U.S.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Republican Party formed

  • Sack of Lawrence, Kansas

  • Violence in Kansas, and Senator Sumner attacked in the Senate

  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    15th U.S. president
    1857 - 1861

  • Minnesota admission to the US

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • Oregon admission to the US, Harper's Ferry Raid

  • John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Pony Express begins

  • Democratic Party splits apart

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    16th U.S. president
    1861 - 1865

  • Kansas admission to the US

    Confederate States of America established under President Jefferson Davis
    American Civil War begins at Forth Sumter

  • American Civil War - begins

  • Civil War begins at Fort Sumter

  • Richard Gatling invented the Gatling gun during the American Civil War

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    West Virginia admission to the US

  • Sand Creek Massacre

  • Grant's wilderness campaign Sherman takes Atlanta, and Sherman's "March to the Sea"

  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson

    17th U.S. president
    1865 - 1869

  • Nevada admission to the USA and U.S. Civil War ends

  • American Civil War - ends

  • Civil Right Act of 1866

  • Charles Goodnight who introduces the concept of the chuck wagon used on cattle drives by cowboys

  • Nebraska admission to the US, and Alaska purchase from Russia

  • First Reconstruction Act launches Radical Reconstruction, and Alaska purchased

  • Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Civil Rights

  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    18th U.S. president
    1869 - 1877

  • George Westinghouse Invented the air brake system

  • Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds

  • Terrorism against blacks in South, flourishing of Darwinism and ideas of racial inferiority

  • Great Chicago Fire

    Treaty of Washington with Great Britain regarding the Dominion of Canada

  • Yellowstone National Park established

  • Red River Wars

  • Civil Right Act 1875

  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

  • Battle of Big little Horn

  • Nicholaus Otto invents the Internal Combustion Engine

  • Carl von Linde invents the refrigerator

  • Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone