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Failed slave revolt in Richmond, VA that was found out about once it had been planned, so he and his followers were hanged
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United States doubles in size
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U.S Supreme Court case which forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the U.S
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First American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the US
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Prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
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Naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, VA, between British warship HMS Leopard and American frigate USS Chesapeake
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Patent granted in 1794 but wasn't verified until 1807
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Lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports
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Killed at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812
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British attack against Washington D.C, capital of the U.S, during the War of 1812
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Series of meetings in the U.S where New England Federalist Party discussed grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812
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No geographical changes, two centuries of peace between US and Great Britain
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Last major battle of the war of 1812, US combatants prevented the British from seizing New Orleans
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Ended War of 1812 between U.S and Britain, peace negotiations made in Ghent, Belgium
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Marked a period in the political history of the U.S that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans after the War of 1812, less fighting between political parties
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Treaty between US and Great Britain to eliminate both countries' burgeoning naval fleets stationed in the Great Lakes
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Resolved standing boundary issues between U.S and Britain
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Ceded Florida to the US, defined boundary between US and New Spain
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U.S Supreme Court case that passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank
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First major peacetime financial crisis in the U.S followed by a general collapse of American economy
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U.S Supreme Court case which was a landmark decision in U.S corporate law dealing with application of the Contract Clause of the U.S Constitution to private corporations
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, prohibited slavery in the Louisiana territory north of the 36 30 latitude line, with the exception of Missouri
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Charles Finney, American evangelist
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Protestant religious revival in the U.S, membership in Baptist and Methodist churches rose significantly
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Failed slave rebellion in Charleston, SC, Denmark Vesey executed for being the "ringleader" of the planned revolt
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US policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas
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When John Quincy Adams won presidency it was believed that Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, had convicted Congress to elect Adams, who made Clay Secretary of State
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U.S Supreme Court case, landmark decision in which the Supreme Court held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation
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Canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York Canal System
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Purchased the town of New Harmony in hopes of creating a new Utopian community
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This speech he delivered was based around his belief that temperance is key and that those who drink alcohol are going to destroy America
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Horace Mann was a member of the Whig party
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Tariff passed in the U.S designed to protect industry in the north
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Step in the direction of more rights for women by having better educated female teachers
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Authorized the U.S president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
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People were inspired to convert due to the release of the Book of Mormon
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U.S Supreme Court case, Supreme Court considered its powers to enforce the rights of Native American "nations against the U.S, vacated conviction of Samuel Worcester based on this
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He claimed to do this because the bank was incompatible with "justice", "sound policy", and the U.S Constitution
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U.S sectional political crisis during Andrew Jackson's presidency, which involved confrontation between South Carolina and the Federal Government over the Tariff of Abominations
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Brief conflict between the U.S and Native Americans lead by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader
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Political party formed in opposition of president Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, distant links to Federalist Party
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Forcible removal of Cherokee Nation from Georgia, ceded Cherokee land to the U.S in exchange for compensation
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Oneida community was a perfectionist religious society in Oneida, New York
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Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
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Pivotal event in Texas revolution
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Required payment for government land to be in gold and silver
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Lead by Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam, transcendentalism was a philosophy formed as a reaction to the general state of intellectualism and spiritualism at the time
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William Holmes McGuffey published the first widely used series of elementary school level textbooks
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Financial crisis in the U.S that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid 1840's
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Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the Mississippi River and migrate to present-day Oklahoma as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy
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Speech of Transcendentalism, against a more Unitarian theology, delivered for the senior class at the Harvard Divinity School Chapel
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Resolved several border issues between U.S and British North American colonies
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Treaty of peace, amity, and commerce between the U.S and the Chinese empire
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Territorial expansion of U.S from east to west
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U.S claims the territory of Texas
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Armed conflict between U.S and the United Mexican States
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Small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California as an independent republic
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Gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
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Added an additional 525,000 square miles to U.S territory
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Thoreau was a transcendentalist who wrote this in resistance to civil government
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He was seeking to re-establish regular trade and discourse between the western world and Japan in over 200 years
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Arizona and New Mexico purchased by the U.S
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First treaty between the U.S and the Tokugawa Shogunate
