Timeline: Art Work Through Time

Period: Mar 30, 1800 to Mar 30, 1900

Art Work Through Time

Feb 17, 1801

Jefferson Elected President

Feb 18, 1801

New York passes Emancipation Act

Apr 1, 1802

Ohio outlaws slavery

Jan 18, 1803

Louisiana Purchase

Mar 18, 1808

Cupid and Psyche

Artist: Benjamin West
Medium: Oil on canvas

Nov 1, 1808

James Madison is elected president

Tensions with Britian begin to build.

Apr 1, 1812

War of 1812

Apr 1, 1820

Missouri Compromise

Apr 1, 1821

New York gives Free Blacks the right to vote

Apr 1, 1824

Mexico becomes a republic and outlaws slavery

Apr 1, 1831

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Apr 1, 1835

Texas declares independence from Mexico

Apr 1, 1837

Depression begins

Apr 1, 1845

Santa Anna is overthrown in Mexico

Apr 1, 1846

War with Mexico

Mar 30, 1848

War News From Mexico

Artist: Richard Caton Woodville
Medium: Oil on canvas

Apr 1, 1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Apr 1, 1850

Compromise of 1850

Apr 1, 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

Apr 1, 1857

Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision

Nov 6, 1860

Lincoln elected president

Apr 1, 1861

The Confederate States secede

Apr 1, 1864

Lee surrenders

Apr 1, 1865

Presidential Reconstruction

Apr 1, 1867

"Radical" Congressional Reconstruction

Apr 1, 1870

15th Ammendment Ratified

Apr 1, 1873

43rd Congress has seven black members

Apr 1, 1875

Jim Crow Laws passed