Important events 1800 - 1825

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    it doubled the size of the United States
  • Embargo in effect

    Embargo in effect

    prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
  • Slave trade ended

    Slave trade ended

    The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
  • Non-intercourse Act

    Non-intercourse Act

    This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports
  • War with England

    War with England

    fought over issues that continued to plague relations between the United States and Britain after the Revolutionary War, like impressment of American sailors and trade restrictions on American shipping
  • Treaty of Ghent

    Treaty of Ghent

    ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  • Creek Indian treaty signed

    Creek Indian treaty signed

    entailed the Creeks ceding their remaining land east of the Flint River in Georgia to the United States. The treaty made the Creek National Council even more determined to cede no more land