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Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to increase central government power -
Telegraph Invented
The non-electric telegraph was invented in 1794 by Claude Chappe, In 1843, the first experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore was constructed, using Morse's concepts.
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Jay’s Treaty
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, the British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794, was a treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Great Britain that is credited with averting war,[3] resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783 -
Pickney’s Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. It also defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River -
Farewell Address
George Washington's Farewell Address' is a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States". Washington wrote the letter near the end of his second term as President, before his retirement to his home Mount Vernon. Originally published in Daved Claypole's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796 under the title "The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United Sta -
Election of 1800
The United States Presidential election of 1800 was the 4th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Wednesday, December 3, 1800. In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800,Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams. -
Steamboat invented
In 1803 Robert Fulton invented the steamboat, In 1736, Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat.by 1774 Marquis Claude de Jouffroy and his colleagues had made a 13-metre (42 ft 8 in) working steamboat with rotating paddles. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles 2,140,000 of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($233 million in 2012 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre). -
Adams-Onis Treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy -
Lewis & Clark Expedition
(1804–1806) was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific coast undertaken by the United States. President Thomas Jefferson Jefferson himself, one goal was to find "the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce -
Start of War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their Indian allies which resulted in no territorial change, but a resolution of many issues which remained from the American War of Independence. -
start of war of 1812
The United States declared war on Great Britain, June 18, 1812 – February 18, 1815, James Madison was the president involved,The American leaders who declared war on Great Britain in 1812 firmly believed that they were beginning a second war of independence. -
Treaty of Ghent
James Madison was the president involved, The Treaty of Ghent was signed in the city at the old Carthusian monastery of Meerhem on 24th December 1814. The Treaty put a formal end to the state of war that had existed between Great Britain and the United States of America since 1812 www.treatofghent.org -
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson is the only president, American victory in a battle that never had to happen. American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated British forces on January 8, 1815
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.The Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. -
Election of 1824
October 26 – December 2, 1824 John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825. The election of 1824 is often claimed to be the first in which the successful presidential candidate did not win the popular vote; however, the popular vote was not measured nationwide at the time. Several states did not permit a popular vote, but rather allowed the state legislature to choose their electors. -
“54 – 40 or Fight”
During his tenure, US President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest expansion in the size of the United States to date. Polk accomplished this through the annexation of Texas in 1845, the negotiation of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848. From 1818 until 1846, the Oregon Country was under "Joint Occupancy" by both Great Britain and the United States, which was scheduled for renewal in 1847. In 1844 -
Annexation of Texas
In 1845, the United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. The U.S. thus inherited Texas' border dispute with Mexico; this quickly led to the Mexican-American War, during which the U.S. captured additional territory... -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.The first to hear confirmed information of the Gold Rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America, who were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848 -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase known as Venta de La Mesilla, or Sale of La Mesilla, in Mexico is a 29,670-square-mile 76,800 region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853.
