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Led to the establishment of reform movements to address injustices and alleviate suffering such as the Temperance Movement, the Women's suffrage Movement and the Abolitionist Movement in which people advocated for emancipation on religious grounds.
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Gabriel intended to lead slaves into Richmond, but the slaves' owners had suspicion of the uprising, and two slaves told their owner about the plans
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Doubled the size of the US, bought from France
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The First U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review"
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The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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Prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
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A naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The crew of Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the American frigate, looking for deserters from the Royal Navy.
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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) a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
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Fourth president of the United States
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Lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports (Illegal to import US made goods to France & Britain)
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Smuggled drawing of British textile machines into US, opened Boston Manufacturing Co in Waltham, hired young farm girls as mill workers
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Killed in War of 1812, death is important because it marked the end of Tecumseh's Confederacy (who sought to stop Anglo-Americans from seizing American Indian land)
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A British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812.
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Ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain
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A series of meetings held in Hartford, Connecticut where 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's increasing power.
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Main result was two centuries of peace between the US and Britain
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Last major battle of the War of 1812. Under the command of General Andrew Jackson, American forces successfully repelled the invading British army
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The mood of victory that swept the nation at the end of the War of 1812. Exultation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, the North and South, and the East Coast cities and settlers on the American frontier.
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Fifth President of the United States
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Treaty between the US and UK limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812
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Set the boundary between the Missouri Territory in the United States and British North America (later Canada) at the forty-ninth parallel.
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Gave Florida to the US, bought from Spain
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Determined if the United States government had the right to establish a bank in Maryland and if the state had the right to tax the government for doing so. (United States government did have the right to establish a bank in Maryland and that the state of Maryland could not tax the bank for doing so)
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The first major financial crisis in the United States. It featured widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. It marked the end of the economic expansion that had followed the War of 1812.
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New Hampshire had attempted to take over Dartmouth College by revising its colonial charter. The Court ruled that the charter was protected under the contract clause of the U. S. Constitution; upholds the sanctity of contracts.
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Failed slave revolt that resulted in The African Methodist Episcopal Church being torn down and stricter laws on southern states
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Opposed European Colonialism in the Americas
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No candidate had received a majority of the Presidential Electoral votes, so the outcome was left to House of Representatives. Following the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment only the top three candidates in the electoral vote were admitted as candidates. Surprisingly the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. It was believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State
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Clarified the commerce clause and affirmed Congressional power over interstate commerce.
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Longest artificial waterway and the greatest public works project in North America, put New York on the map as the Empire State—the leader in population, industry, and economic strength.
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The Harmonists built a new town in the wilderness, but in 1824 they decided to sell their property and return to Pennsylvania. 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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The excessive use of alcohol, known as "intemperance," was a source of concern in New England and the United States. In 1826 he delivered and published six sermons on intemperance. They were sent throughout the United States, ran rapidly through many editions in England, and were translated into several languages on the European continent, and had a large sale even after the lapse of 50 years
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Designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
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Seventh president of the United States
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She declared that the primary goal of education should be to provide a basis for the development of the student's conscience and moral makeup.
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Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
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Deciphered the book of mormon from some golden plates given to him by an angel.
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Established tribal autonomy within their boundaries, i.e. the tribes were "distinct political communities, having territorial boundaries within which their authority is exclusive."
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Jackson vetoed the bill re-chartering the Second Bank by arguing that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution.
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South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutional. Despite sympathetic voices from other Southern states, South Carolina found itself standing alone.
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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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Originally formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. 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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Ceded Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation. The treaty had been negotiated by a Cherokee leader, Major Ridge, who claimed to represent the Cherokee Nation when, in fact, he spoke only for a small faction
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Membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.
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A 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 near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio Texas) killing all of the Texian defenders. Santa Anna's cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States to join the Texian Army. Looking for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto
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Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 1836, to discuss the formation of a new club; their first official meeting was held eleven days later at Ripley's house in Boston.
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Nearly every schoolchild read from, also had contained both English lessons as well as patriotic and moral lessons
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Many American settlers and Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted to break away from Mexico. They did not like laws made by Santa Anna, Mexico's president.
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It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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Made a major reform movement that won widespread support and was the effort to make education available to more children.
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A 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. Pessimism abounded during the time.
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Eighth President of the United States
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The speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School
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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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A treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (i.e. the region that became Canada)
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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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The attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
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Eleventh President of the United States
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The incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state
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Mexico claimed the Nueces River as its northeastern border, while the U.S. claimed the Rio Grande River, and the day that both troops met at the Rio Grande and the Mexican army opened fire, the Mexican American War began.
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The California Republic was an unrecognized breakaway state that, for twenty-five days in 1846, militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County State of California.
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The community believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, making it possible for them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just in Heaven (a belief called Perfectionism). They practiced communalism (in the sense of communal property and possessions), complex marriage, male sexual continence, and mutual criticism.
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Ended the Mexican-American War and 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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The California Gold Rush began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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An outspoken opponent of slavery and bitterly opposed the Mexican-American War, which he viewed as an act of American aggression. In protest, Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes. Thoreau lectured before the Concord Lyceum in January of 1848 on the subject "On the Relation of the Individual to the State."
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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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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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A 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time.
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Japan's first treaty with a Western nation. Concluded by representatives of the United States and Japan at Kanagawa (now part of Yokohama), it marked the end of Japan's period of seclusion.
