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Second Great Awakening Began
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. -
Eli Whitney Patented the Cotton Gin
Used to efficiently pick cotton and by slave labor. -
Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
A literate black slave who planned on a large slave rebellion in Richmond -
Thomas Jefferson was elected president
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Louisiana Purchase
A purchase that Jefferson made when Napoleon provided to sell the land from Louisiana westward double the territory of U.S. -
Marbury v. Madison
Exercised Judicial review by the Supreme Court, a landmark case. -
Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark scouting the area of the new land of the Louisiana Purchase with Sacajawea. -
The Embargo Act
Jefferson enacted an embargo that stopped trade between U.S. and Great Britain. -
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
A naval engagement between Britain and U.S. near Norfolk, Virginia -
James Madison Elected President
The Sixth President of the United States -
Non-Intercourse Act
Congress added in this act to lift all embargo acts from British and French ports -
Rush-Bagot Treaty
A treaty between United States and United Kingdom that would limit navel armaments on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain after the War of 1812. -
Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans From Manchester, England
Cabot memorized Britain manufactures to take out of Britain. -
Death of Tecumseh
Tecumseh was a large multi-tribal leader during the 19th century. -
End of the War of 1812
Treaties were signed and other skirmishes between U.S. and Britain. -
Battle of New Orleans
The last major battles of the War of 1812 from Dec. 1814 and Jan. 1815. -
Hartford Convention
Federalists, in Hartford Connecticut, would meet to discuss their grievances about the War of 1812 and other political matters -
The British Burn Washington D.C.
The British burn Washington D.C. during the War of 1812. -
Beginning of Manifest Destiny
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. -
Treaty of Ghent Ratified
Ended the War of 1812 -
Era of Good Feeling
Marked the era of national unity among fellow Americans. -
James Monroe Elected President
Monroe studied with Washington and Jefferson and was elected president. -
Anglo-American Convention
The respecting of fisheries, boundary and restoration of slaves between U.S. and Britain -
Panic of 1819
A general peacetime financially in the U.S. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
The U.S. bought Florida's territory from Spain. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Was a land making decision of the Supreme Court. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
James W. McCulloch refused to pay taxes towards the bank and passed a legislation to impose taxes. -
Missouri Compromise
An effort to preserve power between the slaves and free states Missouri was a slave state and Main as a free state. -
Denmark Slave Vesey Revolt
Vesey plotted a slave revolt in South Carolina. -
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe stated that no European power have have the right to colonize the U.S. territory. -
Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers
Career in Education With her sister Mary, in 1823 Catherine Beecher founded a school for girls in Hartford, Connecticut, aimed at training women to become mothers and teachers -
John Q. Adams Elected President (Corrupt Bargain)
Clay persuaded the House to put more votes into Adams instead of Jackson -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Encompassed the power to regulate navigation. -
Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York.
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 in western New York -
Erie Canal Completed
The Erie Canal stretches east to west through the New York route system. -
Robert Owen founded the New Harmony Community
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. -
Tariff of Abomination
A protective tariff to passed by Congress to protect industry in the U.S. -
Andrew Jackson Elected President
Jackson up against his rival John Q. Adams but Jackson became superior winning majority Electoral College votes. -
Indian Removal Act
Authorized president Jackson to negotiate the removal of Indian tribes to federal lands. -
Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
a Christian restoration church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. -
Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.
Formed to oppose the president of Andrew Jackson and his party (Democrats). They favored the Congress, program of modernization, banking, and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing. -
Lyman Beecher Delivered his "Six Sermons on Intemperance"
A stand against alcohol -
Worcester v. Georgia
A case where Worcester went to native lands without a license to native lands and the Indians went to Supreme Court to justify and won. -
Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of the U.S.
Jackson stated that the form presented was incompatible with "justice", "sound policy", and the Constitution. -
Nullification Crisis Began
They stated that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina -
Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. -
Treaty of New Echota
For the loss of three men's lives the Cherokee signed the treaty ceding their land. -
Transcendental Club's First Meeting
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 -
First McGuffey Reader Published
This book consisted of stories, speeches, poems and essays -
Texas Declared Independence from Mexico
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. -
Battle of the Alamo
Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar -
Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular
The Specie Circular is a 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 -
Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Mass. Board of Education
He began to work for the education in doing so he attained the foremost rank. -
Panic of 1837
Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. -
Martin Van Buren Elected President
served as the eighth President of the United States -
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the "Divinity School Address"
A speech given to a graduating Harvard Class -
Trail of Tears Began
Jackson forced the Cherokee tribe to move from their land -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies -
Treaty of Wanghia with China
a diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States -
U.S. Annexation of Texas
During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. -
Bear Flag Revolt
hort-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities -
John Humphrey Noyes founded the Oneida Community
He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage". -
Start of the Mexican War
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 -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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. -
Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau -
James Polk Elected President
James K. Polk, a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election. -
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
region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty -
Kanagawa Treaty
the first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate. -
Gold Rush Began in California
gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
