1800's Timeline

By Tuxedosarah

  • Convention of 1800

    Hamilton negotiates with France, frees American alliance with France
  • Jefferson Elected

    Jefferson Elected

    Thomas Jefferson is elected in 1800 and takes office in 1801, the government cahnges to Democratic-Republican.

  • Marbury vs. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • 12th Amendment added

  • Tripoli War ends

  • Embargo Act

  • African Slave Trade Ends

  • Nonintercourse Act

  • Madison becomes preisdent

  • Fletcher vs. Pack

  • Charter for US bank rejected

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • War of 1812 Begins

  • Era of Good Feelings begins

  • Hartford Convention

  • Treay of Ghent

  • Clay's American System

  • Monroe becomes president

  • First Protective Tariff

  • American Colonization Society founded

  • Rush-Bagot Disarmament

  • Panic of 1817

  • Convention of 1818

  • McCulloch vs. Maryland

  • Transcontinental Treaty

  • Dartmouth College vs. Woodward

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Land Act

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Gibbons vs. Ogden

  • Corrupt Bargin of 1824

  • Quincy Adams becomes president

  • Erie Canal completed

  • Jackson elected

  • Tariff of Abominations

  • South Carolina Exposition and Protest

  • Second Great Awakening

  • Congress Passes Indian Removal Act

  • The Liberator beings publication

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

  • The Trail of Tears begins

  • Force Bill

  • Ordinance of Nullification

  • Tariff of 1832

  • Seminole War begins

  • Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia

  • Texas War for Independence

  • Van Buren becomes president

  • The Gag Rule

  • Specie Circular

  • Charles Bridge vs. Warren Bridge

  • US recognizes the Republic of Texas

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Oberlin College admits females

  • Manifest Destiny

  • Antebellum Period

  • Tyler becomes president

  • Independent Treasury System started

  • Tariff Bill put into place

  • Dorr Rebellion

  • Oregon Trail

  • Polk becomes president

  • US annexes Texas

  • Mexican War

  • Mexican-American War

  • Slidell Mission

  • Wilmont Proviso

  • Polk Doctrine

  • Gold Discovered in California

  • Trist Mission

  • Seneca Falls Convention

  • Taylor becomes president

  • Sectional Crisis

  • Fillmore becomes president

  • Clay's Compromise

  • Commodore Perry opens Japan to US

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Pierce becomes president

  • Gadsen Purchase

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Walker Expedition

  • Ostend Manifesto

  • Lawrence Mob Violence

  • Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Panic of 1857

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • "A House Divided" Speech

  • Free Port Doctrine

  • Oregon enters the Union

  • Harpers Ferry Raid

  • Crittenden Compromise

  • Gilded Age begins

  • Lincoln Elected

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Fort Sumpter Attacked

  • Confederate States of America Founded

  • Kansas enters as a free state

  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Battle of Bull Run

  • Homestead Act of 1862

  • Ten Percent Plan

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Surrender at Viksburg

  • Battle at Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Wade-Davis Bill

  • Wade-Davis Manifesto

  • Sand Creek Massacre

  • Lincoln wins reelection

  • Confederate Surrender

  • Lincoln Assassinated

  • Reconstrustion Begins

  • Johnson becomes president

  • Freedman's Bureau Established

  • 13th Amendment takes effect

  • Civil Rights Act Passed

  • Ex Parte Milligan

  • National Labor Union Created

  • Fetterman Massacre

  • Alaska Purchased

  • Reconstruction Acts

  • Impeachment trial of Johnson

  • 14th Amendment

  • Tenure of Office Act

  • Washita River

  • Carnegie Steel Company formed

  • Grant becomes president

  • KKK is started

  • Knights of Labor Formed

  • Transcontinental Rail Road Completed

  • Standard Oil Company Formed

  • 15th Amendment

  • Force Acts

  • Credit Mobilier Scandal

  • Grant Reelected

  • Slaughterhouse Cases

  • Red River Wars

  • Farmers Alliances Established

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Pearl Harbor acquired

  • Hayes becomes president

  • US vs. Reese

  • Telephone Invented

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Munn vs. Illinois

  • Hall vs. Decuir

  • Bland-Allison Act

  • Treaty of 1878

  • Edison Invents Electric Light

  • Dust Bowl begins

  • Garfield is elected

  • Tuskeegee Institute Founded

  • A Century of Dishonor written

  • Arthur becomes president

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • European Restriction Act

  • Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

  • Civil Rights Cases

  • Brooklyn Bridge Completed

  • Standard Time Zones are Established

  • Cleveland is elected

  • AFofL Founded

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Haymarket Incident

  • Interstate Commerce Comission

  • Dawes Severally Act

  • Harrison is elected

  • Hull House Founded

  • Berlin Conference

    US, Britain and Germany agree to joint protection of Samoa. Thier plan ends up unsuccessful

  • 1st Pan American Conference

  • The Influence of Sea Power upon HIstory 1660-1783 Published

  • North Amercian Women's Suffrage Association founded

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act

  • McKinley Tariff Act

  • Period: to

    Blacks are deprived of the vote in South

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

  • Ellis Island opens

  • The Homestead Strike

  • Cleveland is reelected

  • Depression of 1893

  • Colorado Women can vote

  • Coxey’s Army marches on Washington

  • Pullman Strike

  • U.S. vs. E. C. Knight Company

  • Pollack vs. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co

  • In reDebs

  • Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • McKinley elected

  • Dingley Tariff

  • Maine explodes

  • Spanish-American War

  • DeLome Letter

  • Williams vs. Mississippi

  • US gets Hawaii

  • Samoa divided between US and Germany

  • Teller Amendment

  • Open Door Notes