U.s.

APUSH- Period 4

  • Second Great Awakening Began

    Second Great Awakening Began

    Lead by mostly Baptist and Methodist preachers. More people become members of the christian church
  • Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin

    Applied for patent on his cotton gin, separated seeds from raw cotton
  • Thomas Jefferson Was Elected President

    Thomas Jefferson Was Elected President

  • Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt

    Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt

    Large slave revolt in Richmond area coordinated by Gabriel Prosser, unsuccessful
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    Doubled the size of the U.S.
  • Marbury vs. Madison

    Marbury vs. Madison

    Judaical court case that established the basis for judicial review
  • Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition

    Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition

    Explored Louisiana purchase
  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

    Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

    Naval engagement off Norfolk coast. American Frigate USS Chesapeake and British Warship HMS Leopard, British looking for deserters
  • Embargo Act

    Embargo Act

    Prohibited American ships from trading with foreign nations. Put in place by Thomas Jefferson, ruined American economy.
  • James Madison Elected President

    James Madison Elected President

    James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively
  • Non-Intercourse Act

    Non-Intercourse Act

    Lifted embargo acts except for British and French ports
  • Beginning of Manifest Destiny

    Beginning of Manifest Destiny

    the territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1860. This era, from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War, has been called the "age of manifest destiny".
  • Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans From Manchester, England

    Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans From Manchester, England

    Smuggled plans for factory to America
  • Death of Tecumseh

    Death of Tecumseh

    Leader of multi tribal confederation, died in battle against U.S.
  • The British Burn Washington D.C.

    The British Burn Washington D.C.

    British attack in War of 1812 against American capital Washington D.C.
  • Era of Good Feelings Began

    Era of Good Feelings Began

    A sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812
  • Hartford Convention

    Hartford Convention

    The New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government
  • Battle Of New Orleans

    Battle Of New Orleans

    Last major battle of the War of 1812, troops commanded by Andrew Jackson defeat British soldiers at New Orleans
  • Treaty of Ghent Ratified

    Treaty of Ghent Ratified

    Ended War of 1812
  • End of the war of 1812

    End of the war of 1812

    No real gain for U.S. or Britain just peace for years to come
  • James Monroe Elected President

    James Monroe Elected President

    James Monroe becomes president, era of good feelings
  • Rush-Bagot Treaty

    Rush-Bagot Treaty

    A treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812.
  • Anglo-American Convention

    Anglo-American Convention

    Resolved standing boundary issues between U.S. and Britain. The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country
  • Adam-Onis Treaty

    Adam-Onis Treaty

    U.S. acquired Florida from Spain, gained more land
  • McCulloch vs. Maryland

    McCulloch vs. Maryland

    The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland
  • Panic of 1819

    Panic of 1819

    First major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy
  • Dartmouth V.S. Woodward

    Dartmouth V.S. Woodward

    landmark decision in United States corporate law from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, repealed by Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt

    Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt

    Led by a free slave Denmark Vesey near Charleston, South Carolina
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    Policy opposing European colonization in the America's
  • Gibbons V.S. Ogden

    Gibbons V.S. Ogden

    landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce
  • Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York

    Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York

    His religious views led him to promote social reforms, such as abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans
  • Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community

    Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community

    Purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.
  • John Quincy Adams Elected President (Corrupt Bargain)

    John Quincy Adams Elected President (Corrupt Bargain)

    Only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote
  • Erie Canal Completed

    Erie Canal Completed

    The Erie Canal was completed
  • Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”

    Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”

    Speeches on America's drinking habits and what is was doing to hurt America
  • Tariff of Abominations

    Tariff of Abominations

    A protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
  • Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.

    Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.

    Created for people against Andrew Jackson's presidential decisions
  • Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers

    Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers

    Equal rights for women, especially in education
  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Andrew Jackson was elected President
  • Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

    Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

    LDS church was created
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
  • Trail of Tears Began

    Trail of Tears Began

    series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.
  • Black Hawk War

    Black Hawk War

    Brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader
  • Worcester V.S. Georgia

    Worcester V.S. Georgia

    vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state
  • Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of the United States

    Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of the United States

    Jackson argued in his veto message, because it gave the bank considerable, almost monopolistic, market power, specifically in the markets that moved financial resources around the country and into and out of other nations
  • Nullification Crisis Began

    Nullification Crisis Began

    Ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state
  • Treaty of New Echota

    Treaty of New Echota

    Ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation, caused trail of tears
  • Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular

    Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular

    pursuant to the Coinage Act and carried out by his successor, President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
  • First McGuffey Reader Published

    First McGuffey Reader Published

    A traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills.
  • Battle of the Alamo

    Battle of the Alamo

    pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission
  • Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
  • Transcendental Club’s First Meeting

    Transcendental Club’s First Meeting

    Discuss the formation of a new club
  • Panic of 1837

    Panic of 1837

    financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up
  • Martin Van Buren Elected President

    Martin Van Buren Elected President

    8th POTUS
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”

    Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”

    Emerson proclaimed many of the tenets of Transcendentalism against a more conventional Unitarian theology. He argued that moral intuition is a better guide to the moral sentiment than religious doctrine, and insisted upon the presence of true moral sentiment in each individual, while discounting the necessity of belief in the historical miracles of Jesus
  • Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies
  • Treaty of Wanghia with China

    Treaty of Wanghia with China

    diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States
  • James Polk Elected President

    James Polk Elected President

    inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1849. James K. Polk, a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
  • U.S. Annexation of Texas

    U.S. Annexation of Texas

    Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state
  • Bear Flag Revolt

    Bear Flag Revolt

    short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities
  • Start of the Mexican War

    Start of the Mexican War

    armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. U.S. wanted part of Mexico's land
  • John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community

    John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community

    Oneida community’s utopian philosophy focused on the individual relationship to God; it was intended to be a sort of “kingdom of God on earth.”
  • Gold Rush Began in California

    Gold Rush Began in California

    gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
  • Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

    Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

    Built schools, presented reforms in the field of education
  • Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience

    argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice
  • Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to the U.S.

    Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to the U.S.

    American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty
  • Kanagawa Treaty

    Kanagawa Treaty

    the Convention of Kanagawa or Kanagawa Treaty was the first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate