A New Nation 1800-1876 By trammellbr73 1800 U.S. Capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. 1800 U.S. Congress meets in Washington D.C. for first time 1801 Thomas Jefferson inaugurated as 3rd President 1803 Marbury v. Madison 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1804 Lewis and Clark set out 1805 Thomas Jefferson 2nd inauguration 1806 Benjamin Thompson Rumford invented coffee peculator 1809 James Madison is inaugurated as 4th President 1812 Manifest Destiny 1812 War of 1812 1814 James Madison 2nd inauguration 1814 British capture Washington D.C. and set Whitehouse on fire 1814 Francis Scott Key wrote Star Spangled Banner 1817 James Monroe inaugurated as 5th President 1819 Spain agrees to cede Florida to United States 1819 McCulloch v Maryland 1820 Missouri Compromise 1821 Monroe's 2nd inauguration 1821 Battle Weary 1821 Great Britian acknowledges American Independence 1822 Denmark Vesy hanged 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1823 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation 1824 Gibbons v. Ogden 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th President 1825 Erie Canal opened for traffic 1828 Construction began on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad-1st public Railroad in U.S 1828 Washington inaugurated as President 1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President 1830 President Jackson signs Indian Removal Act 1830 Nat Turner hanged 1830 William Lloyd Garrison published the Liberator 1833 Jackson's 2nd inauguration 1834 Hiram Moore invents the Combine Harvester 1835 Wiliam Austin Burt invents the Steam Shovel 1836 Texas Declares its Independence from Mexico 1836 Samuel Morse invents Morse Code 1837 Martin Van Buren inaugurated as 8th President 1838 Cherokee Indians forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory(Present day Oklahoma) 1841 William Henry Harrison inaugurated as 9th President he dies after 1 month in office Vice President John Tyler steps up 1845 United States Annexes Texas by joint resolution of Congress 1845 James Polk inaugurated as 11th President 1846 United States acquires Oregan territory 1848 Mexican War 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe of Hidalgo 1848 Womens Rights Convention 1849 Zachary Taylor inaugurated as 12th President 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes slavery 1850 President Taylor dies and Vice President Millard Fillmore steps up 1850 Compromise of 1850 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin published 1853 Franklin Pierce inaugurated as 14th President 1853 Gadsden Purchase Treaty signed 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act passed 1857 James Buchanan inaugurated as 15th President 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford 1858 Abraham Lincoln comes to National attention 1859 John Brown abolitionist and followers attempt to spark a slave revolt 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President 1861 Confederate states of America established 1861 Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederacy 1861 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President 1863 Homestead Act 1865 Lincoln assassinated 1865 Civil War 1865 Ft. Sumter 1865 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Battle of Gettysburg 1865 Gettysburg address delivered 1865 Abraham Lincoln 2nd inauguration 1865 General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders 1867 United States acquires Alaska 1868 President Johnson impeached 1868 14th Amendment ratified 1869 Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as 18th President 1870 15th Amendment ratified 1871 Chicago fire 1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal 1873 Grant's 2nd inauguration 1876 Lt. Col. George A. Caster regiment wiped out/American Indian Wars:Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Sitting Bull
