enslaved men planned to end slavery in Virginia by attacking Richmond in late August
French secretly reacquired Louisiana
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Tenskwatawa’s witch hunts
United States had purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French at a fire-sale price.
Marbury v. Madison
Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh built their alliance.
British demanded that neutral ships first carry their goods to Britain to pay a transit duty before they could proceed to France.
Britain was in the process of outlawing the slave trade
Embargo Act
British attacked the USS Chesapeake
efferson’s embargo sent the nation into a deep depression and drove exports down from $108 million
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Britain, France, and their allies seized about nine hundred American ships
Jefferson retired from the presidency
United States ended its legal participation in the global slave trade
constitutional ban on the international slave trade
Supreme Court extended judicial review to state laws.
A free Black population of fewer than 60,000 in 1790 increased to more than 186,000
Hillis Hadjo, who accompanied Tecumseh when he toured throughout the Southeast
Battle of Tippecanoe
Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan expired
War of 1812
emocratic-Republicans held 75 percent of the seats in the House and 82 percent of the Senate, giving them a free hand to set national policy.
American naval forces secured control of the Great Lakes
Tecumseh fell on the battlefields of Moraviantown, Ontario
Atlantic Theater
U.S. Navy won their most significant victories in the Atlantic Ocean
American industrial espionage
Napoleon’s defeat
Americans gained naval victories on Lake Champlain near Plattsburgh
United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent
New England Federalists met in Hartford
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Southern Theater
The British sailed for New Orleans, where they achieved a naval victory at Lake Borgne before losing the land invasion to Major General Andrew Jackson’s troops
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explosion of patents on agricultural technologies.
the last Federalist to run for president, Rufus King, lost to Monroe
U.S. soldiers and their Creek allies had already destroyed the “Negro Fort,”
South Carolina congressman John C. Calhoun called for building projects to “bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.”
Depressions devastated the economy
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Louisiana Purchase, applied for statehood
Adams-Onís Treaty
Missouri Compromise
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More than five million immigrants arrived in the United States
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over 250,000 Irish immigrants arrived in the United States.
only three states still had rules about how much property someone had to own before he could vote.
New York State completed the Erie Canal
The United States’ first long-distance rail line launched from Maryland
Calhoun secretly drafted the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest,” an essay and set of resolutions that laid out the doctrine of nullification.”
Adams and Jackson squared off in one of the dirtiest presidential elections to date
David Walker, a Black abolitionist in Boston, wrote an Appeal that called for resistance to slavery and racism.
English traveler Frances Trollope made the journey across the Allegheny Mountains from Cincinnati to the East Coast.
New England was losing its competitive advantage to the West.
census data suggests that at least 3,500 people were still enslaved in the North.
textile companies made up 88 out of 106 American corporations valued at over $100,000.
Martin Van Buren, a New York political leader replaced Calhoun as vice president when Jackson ran for reelection
Massachusetts, stopped supporting an official religious denomination. Historians call that gradual process disestablishment.
Jackson directed his cabinet to stop depositing federal funds in it.
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Textile operatives in Lowell, Massachusetts, “turned out” (walked off) their jobs
citywide strike in Boston
Congress decided to increase the number of banks receiving federal deposits.
Treasury Department issued an order called the Specie Circular
Federal land sales plummeted.
Vice President Martin Van Buren, easily won election
Depressions devastated the economy
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1837
Runs on banks began in New York
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economic depression.
Ohio created two navigable, all-water links from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
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1.7 million Irish fled starvation and the oppressive English policies that accompanied it
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labor activists organized to limit working hours and protect children in factories.
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Ten-Hour Movement
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of a union
child labor became a dominant issue in the American labor movement.
Samuel Morse had persuaded Congress to fund a forty-mile telegraph line stretching from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
Germans fled declining agricultural conditions and repercussions of the failed revolution
nativism spawned its own political party
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Know-Nothing Party even nominated candidates for president
Immigration declined
Depressions devastated the economy
Americans had laid more than thirty thousand miles of railroads.