America 1800-1876 By abdaniel 1800 Library of Congress founded 1801 Thomas Jefferson elected President Period: 1801 to 1815 Barbary Wars 1803 Ohio 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1804 Lewis and Clark 1804 Alexander Hamilton duel 1806 The National Road 1808 James Madison elected President 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe Period: 1812 to 1814 War of 1812 1813 Battle of York 1814 White House Burned Period: 1814 to 1857 Seminole Wars 1816 Indiana 1817 James Monroe president 1817 Mississippi 1818 U.S. & Canada border 1819 Florida 1819 Tallmadge Amendment 1820 Missouri Compromise 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1824 John Quincy Adams elected president 1826 Internal combustion engine 1826 Fredonian Republic 1829 Andrew Jackson elected president 1830 Indian Removal Act 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion 1832 Oregon Trail Begins 1835 1st Presidential assassination attempt 1836 Texas Independence 1836 Martin Van Buren 1838 Trail of Tears 1840 William Henry Harrison elected president 1841 John Tyler sworn in as president 1844 James K. Polk elected as President 1845 Manifest Destiny 1846 Mexican War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1851 The first YMCA opens 1857 Dred Scott decision 1859 John Brown's Rebellion Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War 1862 Battle of Shiloh 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 New York Draft riot 1864 Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania 1865 13th Amendment 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrenders 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated Period: 1865 to 1869 Reconstruction 1866 The Klu Klux Klan forms 1867 Alaska Purchase 1871 National Rifle Association 1876 Custer's Last Stand