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The religious landscape of the nation was dramatically changed by the Second Great Awakening. Many preachers traveled around and spoke. Often people expressed physical and emotional enthusiasm at the revivals. New Christian denominations were born such as the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, and the Mormon Church.
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An enslaved man named Gabriel conspired with one thousand enslaved men to make plans to attack Richmond, Virgina in the hopes of ending slavery in Virginia. However, two slaves reported the conspiracy to their enslaver and Federal authorities put a stop to the slaves' plans. Gabriel was hung along with twenty-five others. The rebellion caused Virginians to become more wary and they increased restrictions on slaves.
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The United States capitol was moved from Philadelphia to Washinton District of Columbia.
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President Thomas Jefferson signed an act to pay France fifteen million dollars for 828 million square miles of land. -
Louis and Clark were commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to go explore the new lands from the Louisiana Purchase. -
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In 1812, Congress declared war against Britain because of their American Canadian border issues.
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Representatives for Britain and America signed a treaty to end the War of 1812. The Treaty of Ghent reverted their relationship to the way it was before the war. -
In 1816, the United States entered a conflict with the Spanish and Native Americans in Florida. The plantation owners of the South were upset that their slaves were escaping to Spanish-owned Florida to become free. At the end of the war, Spain signed the Adams-Onis Treaty which gave Florida to the US in exchange for five million dollars.
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Congress passed the Missouri Compromise to prevent conflict from breaking out. The compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Main as a free state to maintain the political balance. The compromise also stated that any new states admitted above the 36°30’ line of latitude would be free states and any below would be slave states.
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Congress passed an act that allowed the president to exchange land with the Native Americans. Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren used this act to drive Native Americans out of the east and into the west.
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Nat Turner led other slaves and killed fifty-seven people on eleven plantations. Then the local militia stopped the rebellion, and the South was transformed to become even more restrictive toward the black people. -
The United States went to war with escaped slaves and the Seminole Indians. At the end, the United States gained full control of the lands in Florida.
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The term, manifest destiny, was first coined by John O'Sullivan in 1845. John O'Sullivan believed that the United States was destined to grow and occupy the lands in the west. This belief soon spread and became the opinion of many citizens of the United States. -
Texas joined the United States after gaining their independence from Mexico.
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The United States went to war with Mexico over border conflicts. -
The early Nineteenth Century was a time of many advocates and change. Women rights advocates such as Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met at Senecca Falls to discuss the problems women had and how to solve them.
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In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States agreed to pay Mexico fifteen million dollars for California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and other lands along with ending the war. The Mexicans had to accept because the US were occupying the capitol of Mexico.
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South Carolina dissolved their union to the United States and other states soon followed. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the United States. The Confederate States of America created their own legal tender and elected Jefferson Davis to be their first president.
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The soldiers of the Confederate States of America fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand men to volunteer to suppress the rebellion.
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Abraham Lincoln and Congress declared that slaves in parts of the Confederate states were free.
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The Thirteenth Amendment legally abolished slavery and gave Congress the power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulyssess S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
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The Ku Klux Klan was an organization made of members from all the former Confederate states. The members harassed and acted against the black people. -
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The Chicago Fire burned down a large amount of Chicago and caused the residents to avoid building wooden structures.