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Capital Change
The U.S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, DC. This is still to this day the location of the captial. -
New Meeting
Meetings are no longer held in philidalphia. U.S. Congress meets in Washington, DC, for the first time. -
African American Revolt
Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened. -
T Jeff
Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president in Washington, DC. United states is still prospering. -
SUPREME
Marbury v. Madison: Landmark Supreme Court decision greatly expands the power of the Court by establishing its right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. -
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Louisiana Purchase: The United States agrees to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, which extends west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and comprises about 830,000 sq mi. As a result, the U.S. nearly doubles in size. -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, Mo., on expedition to explore the West and find a route to the Pacific Ocean. -
Thomas Jefferson (2)
Thomas Jefferson's second inauguration. He is elected for a second time to serve as president. -
Cross the Country
Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean. They finally crossed the country and reached the opposite ocean. -
James Madison
James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president. Thomas Jefferson no longer in office. -
War of 1812
War of 1812: U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion. -
War continued...
British capture Washington, DC, and set fire to White House and Capitol. -
Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key writes Star-Spangled Banner as he watches British attack on Fort McHenry at Baltimore. -
End of War
Treaty of Ghent is signed. Officially ending the war. -
5th President
James Monroeruns for office. He is later inaugurated as the fifth president. -
Landmark!
McCulloch v. Maryland: Landmark Supreme Court decision upholds the right of Congress to establish a national bank, a power implied but not specifically enumerated by the Constitution. -
New State
Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States. Flordia is added to the states. -
Missouri
Missouri Compromise: In an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) is admitted as a free state so that Missouri can be admitted as a slave state; except for Missouri, slavery is prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36°30'. -
Treaty Of Paris
Great Britain formally acknowledges American independence in the Treaty of Paris, which officially brings the war to a close. -
Done
British general Charles Cornwallis surrenders to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va. -
Valley Forge
Battle-weary and destitute Continental army spends brutally cold winter and following spring at Valley Forge. -
Denmark
Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 coconspirators are hanged. -
Monroe Doc
Monroe Doctrine: In his annual address to Congress, President Monroe declares that the American continents are henceforth off-limits for further colonization by European powers. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams wins the disputed presidential election. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal completed, connecting Western farmers and the Great Lakes to markets in New York. -
New findings
Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Washington, ceding territory to the federal government and gaining another year to remain on their lands. -
Death
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Would not live to celebrate it. -
1827
The United States and Great Britain sign a treaty extending the 1818 agreement to continue joint occupation of Oregon Territory. -
Mr 20 dollar bill
Andrew Jackson is elected in a landslide. Winning every Western state in the country. -
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith, author of The Book of Mormon, founds the Church o Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Fayette, New York. -
Big votes only
Jackson vetoes the Maysville Road Bill, which would have provided federal monetary support for a sixty-mill road construction project entirely in Kentucky. -
If you cant take the heat, get out the kitchen
Jackson forms a “kitchen cabinet". An informal group of advisors. -
Frenchman tactics
The Frenchmen Alexis de Tocqueville and William de Beaumont arrive in America. -
Black Hawk down
Black Hawk surrenders, thus ending the Black Hawk War in the Northwest. -
Mr. President
President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Act, authorizing the use of military force to collect tariff duties in South Caroline. -
New world
The American anti-slavery society is formed. Attems to end all forms of slavery begin. -
Indian Act
30 June The Indian Intercourse Act is passed. -
Richard L
Richard Lawrence tries to assassinate Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president. -
Remember the Alamo
The Alamo falls to Mexican force. Many are killed in the act of war. -
San Jacinto
At the Battle of san Jacinto, sam Houston and a force of Texan militia defeat a Mexican army under Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. As a result of this battle, Texas wines its independence from Mexico. -
Texico
The United States recognizes the Republic of Texas. New Texaco forms and branches off. -
Removal Act
The forced removal of southeastern Indians to Oklahoman, known as the Trail of tears, begins. -
1839 summer
Slaves aboard the Spanish ship Amistad revolt and gain control of the vessel. They are captured off U.S. water, but after a lengthy court battle the slaves are set free in 1841. -
New President
William Henry Harrison wins the presidential election. New president in office. -
John c Fremont
John C. Fremont explores the headwaters of the Des Moines river in Iowa. -
Squatters beware
The preemption Act grants “squatter’s rights” to settlers. No longer accepting squatters. -
Fr`emont
Frémont leads an expedition to explore the route to Oregon beyond the Mississippi River as far as the South pass of the Continental Divide in Wyoming. -
Webster
In the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the American and Canadian boundary is established between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. -
Fremont leaves Kansas
John C.Fremont leaves Kansas City for another exploratory journey of the West;the expedition yields an accurate survey of the immigrant route to Oregon. -
Texas
The U.S. Senate votes not to annex Texas. Instead fight for the land and claim it as us state. -
Mormon...
Mormon leader Joseph smith is murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. -
Destiny
Magazine editor John L.O’Sullivan coins the phrase “Manifest Destiny.” -
Never mind.....
Texas is annexed by the United States -
Mexican War
The Mexican war begins. -
Oregon Treaty
In the Oregon Treaty the boundary between the United States and Canada is set at the Forty-ninth parallel. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso passes the House of Representatives for the first time. -
BYU
Mormons arrive at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Where they plan to settle an begin new life. -
49ers
Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. Goldrush begins slowly but surel. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War.
Fight is over. -
1849
More than seventy thousand Americans, joined by eight thousand Mexicans and five thousand South Americans, head to the California gold fields. -
New president
Zachary Taylor becomes President. -
Senate
Thomas Pratt was elected to the Senate from Maryland, replacing fellow Whig who had until then held it by appointment to fill a vacancy. -
Supreme Decision
The Supreme Court held in a decision in Sheldon v. Sill that the Congress, which has the power under the Constitution to institute lower courts of the judiciary, also has the power to limit their jurisdiction. -
Calhoun dead...
John Calhoun died of tuberculosis in Washington, D.C. -
Gila Expedition
Gila Expedition: Californian volunteers launched a punitive expedition against the Quechan. -
United Kigdom
The United States and the United Kingdom signed the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty, under which each promised to maintain the neutrality of a proposed canal through Nicaragua and not to occupy or colonize any territory in Central America. -
Womens Convention
Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850: The Convention drafted a petition to the upcoming Ohio state constitutional convention asking that women be granted the franchise as well as civil and political rights equal to those of men. -
Bloody massacre
Bloody Island massacre: An American punitive expedition killed as many as one hundred Pomo civilians on an island in Clear Lake. -
Nashville to Missouri
Nashville Convention: The Convention resolved to propose the extension of the Missouri Compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean. -
Thomas Corwin
Senator Thomas Corwin of Ohio resigned his seat following his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. Fellow Whig Thomas Ewing was appointed to fill his seat. -
Fillmore
Inauguration of Millard Fillmore: Vice president Millard Fillmore was sworn in as president at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. -
Freedom isnt free
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, eliminating the last civil and political rights of escaped slaves and imposing serious penalties for harboring or failing to arrest fugitives. -
Slave trade
The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. No one was allowed to trade slaves anymore in washingon. -
Donation land
The Donation Land Claim Act was signed into law, granting free plots of land to white and half-blooded Native American settlers of the Oregon Territory. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act is passed, nullifying the Missouri Compromise. -
Abe Lincoln
United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. -
Civil War
American Civil War: The war begins at Fort Sumter. Union vs Confederation. -
Confederation
Ten more states secede from the Union and established the Confederate States of America. -
S/O Kansas
Kansas becomes the 34th state. Joins the union of U.S. -
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederacy. Civil war boils up. -
Battle of Bull Run
First Battle of Bull Run: The battle takes place. Results in a Confederate victory. -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Hampton Roads: A naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimack takes place. -
2nd bull run
Second Battle of Bull Run: The battle takes place. -
Antietam
Battle of Antietam: The battle takes place. -
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in those states that had seceded. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president, after the assassination of President McKinley. -
Donald Trump
Inauguration of Donald Trump: Donald Trump is inaugurated as the forty-fifth president of the United States.
