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Whiskey Rebellion
<ahref='http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/whiskeyrebelliondef.htm' >social studies for kids</a><ahref='http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande22.html' >pbs</a> In order to create a self-supporting and effective government, Treasury Secretary Hamilton knew he needed to find a steady source of revenue. He proposed an excise tax on whiskey produced in the United States, and Congress instituted the levy in 1791. In July of 1794, a force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector. The rebellion grew in numbers, if not in actions, and threatened to spread to other states. -
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Jay's Treaty
jays treay The treaty was approved by Congress on August 14, 1795, with exactly the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. Jay's Treaty was signed with Great Britain and because of this treaty the British gave up forts and the US repays prewar debts to Great Britain. -
Farewell Address
washington farewellWashingtons farewell address The Farewell Address was written to eliminate washington as a candidate for a third term in office. Washington stated his fear that party factionalism would divide the country. -
Election of 1800
presidential electionselections in history
The significance of the 1800 election lay in the fact that it entailed the first peaceful transfer of power between parties under the U.S. Constitution: Republican Thomas Jefferson succeeded Federalist John Adams. This peaceful transfer occurred despite defects in the Constitution that caused a breakdown of the electoral system. -
Louisiana Purchase
louisanapurchase On April 30, 1803 the nation of France sold 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 square km) of land west of the Mississippi River to the young United States of America in a treaty commonly known as the Louisiana Purchase. President Thomas Jefferson, in one of his greatest achievements, more than doubled the size of the United States at a time when the young nation's population growth was beginning to quicken. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
questgardenhistory.com In 1804, Jefferson sends a team to explore lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery will travel nearly 8,000 miles over three years, reaching the Pacific Ocean and clearing the path for westward expansion. -
Treaty of Ghent
wikipediahistory.com On December 24, 1814, The Treaty of Ghent was signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada. -
Battle of New Orleans
EVResourceSiteHistory.com The Battle of New Orleans was the last major battle of the War of 1812. The fight took place on January 8, 1815 when 7,500 British soilders marched against 4,500 U.S. troops led by General Andrew Jackson. In thirty mintutes Jackson defeated the British, halting their plans to attack New Orleans and establishng himself as a national military hero. -
War of 1812
ancestry.comHistory.com In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain. Causes of the included British attempts to resrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy's impressment American seamen and America's desire to expand its territory and on February 17, 1815, the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent ended the war. -
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Monroe Doctrine
monroe doctrine The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. -
Eection of 1824
John adamshistory.com John Quincy Adams won the presidency in a highly contentious election in 1824, and served only one term. -
California Gold Rush
imagegold rush In January 1848, James Wilson Marshall discovered gold while constructing a saw mill along the American River northeast of present-day Sacramento. The discovery was reported in the San Francisco newspapers in March but caused little stir as most did not believe the account. The spark that ignited the gold rush occurred in May 1848 when Sam Brannan, a storekeeper in Sutter's Creek, brandished a bottle filled with gold dust around San Francisco shouting 'Gold! Gold! Gold from American River!' Th -
Trail of Tears
pbshistory.com At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida--land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. -
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Annexation of Texas
picinfo The annexation of Texas to the United States became a topic of political and diplomatic discussion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and became a matter of international concern between 1836 and 1845, when Texas was a republic. After many issues the United States passed the annexation resolution on February 28, 1845. -
"54-40 or Fight"
picsite In 1818, the United States and the United Kingdom established a joint claim over the Oregon Territory. Joint control worked for over a decade and a half but ultimately, the parties decided that joint occupancy wasn't working well so they set about to divide Oregon. Through negotiations with the British after Polk's inauguration, the boundary between the U.S. and British Canada was established at 49° with the Treaty of Oregon in 1846. -
