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Gabriel intended to lead slaves into Richmond, but he was caught.
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A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism.
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U.S. acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 for $15 million. The purchase secured American control of the Mississippi river and doubled the size of the nation.
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The Supreme Court first asserted the power of judicial review by declaring the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional.
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Overland expedition to the Pacific coast lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
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In response to British attack on American warship of the coast of Virginia, this law prohibited foreign commerce.
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Occurred between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
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Eli Whitney 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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Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Pinckney.
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This lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.
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This decision placed important restrictions on the ability of state governments to control corporations.
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Made sketches of what he observed. Returned to America and improved Slater's cotton spinning machine. Opened first integrated cotton mil in Waltham, MA in 1814.
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Killed at the Battle of the Thames.
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The Burning of Washington was a British attack against Washington, D.C during the War of 1812.
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Where the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and political problems.
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It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
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The last major battle of the War of 1812
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Ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.
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Reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
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A treaty that demilitarized the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S and British North America.
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Elected 5th president.
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Allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country.
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Signed by John Adams and Spanish minister Luis de Onis, this treaty allowed for US annexation of Florida.
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The courts ruled that the states cannot tax the federal government.
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Fault of the Second Bank of the US, which had tightened credit in a belated effort to control inflation
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This compromise set it up so that Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state.
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Led by Denmark Vesey, the revolt took place near Charleston, South Carolina.
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Declared the western hemisphere off limits to new European colonization and in return, the US promised not to meddle in European affairs.
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When Henry Clay allegedly met with JQA before the House election to break a deadlock. Adams was elected president against the popular vote and Clay was named Secretary of State.
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Did Congress have the power to give Gibbons a license to operate his ferry superseded the state of New York's power to grant Ogden a monopoly.
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Allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West.
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Purchased the town with the intention of creating a new Utopian community.
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Its goal was to protect industry in the northern U.S from competing European goods by increasing the prices of European products.
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Election of 1828. Jackson vs JQA.
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Six sermons on the nature, occasions, signs, evils, and remedy of intemperance.
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Essay on the importance of women as teachers.
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Authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate land-exchange treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi. Forced emigration of Indians to the west.
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Deciphered the book of Mormon from some golden plates given to him by an angel.
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A war in Illinois between an alliance of Sauk and Fox Indians under Black Hawk against white settlers in an effort to overturn an illegal treaty ceding tribal lands in that state to the U.S.
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Marshall affirmed and explained the rights of the tribes to remain free from the authority of state governments.
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Argued that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution.
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When South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutional.
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Formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.
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An agreement that the Cherokee would remove themselves from their land and take up new land in the West.
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Known as the "father of modern revivalism," he was a pioneer of cooperation among Protestant denominations.
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Met to discuss the formation of a new club.
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A traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills.
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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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It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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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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He began the work which was to place him in the foremost rank of American educators. (1st position in U.S)
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Bank of the U.S. failed, cotton prices fell, businesses went bankrupt, and there was widespread unemployment and distress.
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Eighth President of the U.S.
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Speech he gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838.
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Apart 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.
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A treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies.
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Signed by the U.S. and China, it assured the United States the same trading concessions granted to other powers, greatly expanding America's trade with the Chinese.
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Served as the 11th President of the United States.
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The belief that Americans had the right/duty to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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The incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America
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A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule.
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The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico's true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande.
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A Perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York.
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Ended Mexican-American War; Mexico gave up all claims to land from Texas to California for $15 million.
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Began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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Resistance to Civil Government is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
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Commodore Matthew Perry, representing the U.S. government, sails into Tokyo Bay, Japan, with a squadron of four vessels
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Treaty in which the United States bought from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico.
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Ended Japan's two-hundred year period of economic isolation, establishing an American consulate in Japan and securing American coaling rights in Japanese ports.
