1800-1876 in America

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  • Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney

  • Election of 1800

    Thomas Jefferson (anti-federalist)

  • Marbury Vs. Madison

    John Marshall (Chief Justice), judicial review

  • 12th amendment

    president and vice president run as ticket

  • Duel

    Burr and Hamilton duel. Burr was later arrested.

  • Steamboat

    Robert Fulton, "clermont"

  • Election of 1808

    James Madison

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    William Henry Harrison

  • Attack on New Orleans

    was a delayed attack (they didn't know the treaty was signed)

  • Declaration of war against Britain

    Beginning war of 1812

  • Detroit surrender

    We surrendered Detroit without a single shot

  • Battle of Lake Erie

  • British Raid on Chesapeake Bay

  • Ft. McHenry

    25 hours of British imprisonment
    Francis Scott Key

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Election of 1816

    James Monroe

  • Second Bank of the United States

    Established in Philadelphia, by 1819 it was nearly bankrupt.

  • Tariff of 1816

    Purpose to protect US manufactured items

  • Panic of 1819

    1st major depression, poor banking policies.

  • Missouri Compromise

    36, 30.

  • Second Great Awakening

    started in 1790, picked up vastly by 1820.

  • Urban Popular Culture

    200 New York City brothels.

  • Monroe Doctrine

    James Monroe, United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas.

  • Election of 1824

    John Quincy Adams, corrupt bargain.

  • Erie Canal

    364 miles. Major invention

  • Walk to Freedom

    Sojourner Truth

  • Election of 1828

    Andrew Jackson, "King Andrew I"

  • Tariff of 1828

    enraged south, Jackson and Van Buren supported it.

  • Shakers

    Mother Ann Lee- the 1900's they disappeared

  • Mechanical Reaper

    Cyrus Hall McCormick

  • Crisis

    SC exposition and protest, Daniel Webster's opposition,

  • Force Bill

    reduced tariff rates to modest levels by 1842

  • American Anti-Slavery Society

    William Lloyd Garrison

  • Tyranny censure

    Senate censured Jackson and warned him about tyranny

  • Election of 1836

    Martin Van Buren

  • Panic of 1837

    Van Buren believed that the gov't shouldn't be involved in helping the unemployed

  • Election of 1840

    William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler. First campaign with songs and slogans.

  • Education

    78% of the total population could read/write, 91% of the white population could read/write.

  • Brook Farm

    transcedental communal experiment

  • Election of 1844

    James K. Polk, "54, 40 or fight"

  • First Clippership

    built for speed, "rainbow"

  • Texas Annexation

    28th state

  • Steel Plow

    John Deer, 1847- mass production

  • Battle of Buena Vista

    Mexico almost beat Taylor's army

  • March on Mexico's Capital

    General Winfield Scott defeated Santa Anna.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

  • Election of 1848

    Zachary Taylor

  • Harriet Tubman

    returned to Maryland to escort her sister and kids to freedom.

  • Compromise of 1850

    1. fugitive slave act
    2. california is a free state
    3. resolved boundary dispute
    4. abolished slave trade is DC
    5. popular sovereignty

  • Election of 1852

    Franklin Pierce, slavery was main issue.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    abolitionist book by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman, Transcendentalism

  • Election of 1856

    James Buchanan

  • Pottowatomie Creek

    John Brown hacked pro-slavery men to death, after they had sacked Lawrence (free-state headquarters) (Bleeding Kansas)

  • Kansas Applies for Admittance to Union

    as a free state

  • Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln

  • Kansas admitted as free state

  • Election of 1864

    Andrew Johnson

  • Election of 1868

    Ulysses S. Grant

  • Election of 1876

    Rutherford B. Hayes