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Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.
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Just before the War of 1812, Francis Cabot Lowell of Massachusetts smuggled plans for a power loom out of England
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On August 30, 1800, Gabriel intended to lead slaves into Richmond, but the rebellion was postponed because of rain. The slaves' owners had suspicion of the uprising, and two slaves told their owner
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The acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803
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Forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
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The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
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A naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on 22 June 1807, between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
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Lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.
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applied for a patent of his cotton gin on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.
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The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively.
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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".
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He died in battle and was disfigured by enemy soldiers
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The Burning of Washington was a British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812
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During the year of 1814, Lyman gave approximately six sermons on intemperance, that were sent throughout the U.S.
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The War of 1812 ended in a stalemate. The treaty of Ghent signed on December 24, 1814 returned all territorial conquests made by the two sides.
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A series of meetings from December 15, 1814 – January 5, 1815, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which 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
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Andrew Jackson defended New Orleans against the British.
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Ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain
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Exaltation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, between northern and southern states, and between east-coast cities and settlers on the western frontier.
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He was elected the fifth president of the United States in 1817
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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.
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The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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Also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
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Congress has power to incorporate a bank
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a 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.
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The first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821.
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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
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Failed slave revolt that was the most extensive in history.
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A United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823
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the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson.
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a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce
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Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east
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Charles Grandison Finney is credited with being one of the most forceful American evangelists, one who was greatly responsible for the rise of religious fervor
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Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist and social reformer, purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.
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Protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
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Re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election.
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Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
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A brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader
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The laws instituted a prohibition of non-Indians from living in Indian territories.
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Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill re-chartering the Second Bank in July 1832 by arguing that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution.
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The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. They said that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession.
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Whigs supported the supremacy of the US Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking, and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing.
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Provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. The Treaty of New Echota was signed on this day in 1835, ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation
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founded a school for girls in Hartford, Connecticut, aimed at training women to become mothers and teachers.
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Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam (1807–1878; the Unitarian minister in Roxbury) met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 1836, to discuss the formation of a new club
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first widely used textbooks in the U.S.
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an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".
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he Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
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Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar
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United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 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.
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An American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education
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financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s
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American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841.
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The common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838.
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.
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resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies
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diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States, signed on July 3, 1844 in the Kun Iam Temple.
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a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
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The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
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was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
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During the Bear Flag Revolt, from June to July 1846, a small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic.
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The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The 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.
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gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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Originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government. Thoreau wrote this classic essay to advocate public resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust.
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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.
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southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time.
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Convention of Kanagawa or Kanagawa Treaty was the first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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