U. S. History 1800 - 1876 By cathyf2323 Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1800 Thomas Jefferson elected President 1800 Revolution of 1800 1800 Gabriel’s Rebellion Period: 1800 to 1801 Sedition & Alien Acts expired 1803 US purchases Louisiana Territory from French for $15 million 1807 British outlaw slavery 1807 Embargo Act 1807 British attack USS Chesapeake 1807 First commercial steamboat service up and down Hudson River 1808 Ban on slave importation 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe 1812 War of 1812 between US and Britain 1812 US Launched first offensive against Canada – Detroit & Michigan Territory 1812 371-ton steam ship called the New Orleans able to sail down and UP the Mississippi River 1814 Napoleon defeated 1814 Washington D.C. burned 1814 Treaty of Ghent 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend 1820 Discovery of Gossypium barbadense—often called Petit Gulf cotton 1820 Missouri Compromise Period: 1820 to 1860 5 million immigrants arrived in US 1821 Mexico independence from Spain 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1824 John Quincy Adams elected President 1825 Erie Canal completed 1825 Carpenters Union formed 1827 First US long distance rail line (B&O Rail Company) 1828 Andrew Jackson elected President 1828 Tariff of Abominations Period: 1828 to 1832 Nullification Crisis 1829 David Walker writes "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" 1830 Book of Mormon published by Joseph Smith 1830 Indian Removal Act 1832 Black Hawk War 1835 Martin Van Buren became President 1835 Treaty of New Echota Period: 1835 to 1836 Texas Revolution 1836 Unitarians founded the Transcendental Club 1836 Great Petition Campaign 1836 Texas independence from Mexico 1837 Panic of 1837 1838 Trail of Tears 1839 Political abolitionists formed the Liberty Party 1840 Ten-Hour Movement 1840 John Tyler becomes President 1840 President John Tyler dies 1842 Child Labor became dominant issue 1843 Samuel Morse persuaded congress to fund 40 mile telegraph line 1845 Manifest Destiny 1845 Texas joins United States 1846 Mr. Polk’s War 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 Gold discovered in California 1850 Fugitive Slave Act 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her best-selling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1854 Gadsden Purchase 1860 Americans had laid 30,000 miles of railroad 1860 4 million enslaved people 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President 1860 South Carolina secedes 1860 Southern States secede - Florida; January 10, Alabama; January 11, Georgia; January 19, Louisiana; January 26, Texas; February 1 1861 Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter 1861 Battle of Bull Run 1862 First Confiscation Act, Congress abolished the institution of slavery in the District of Columbia 1862 Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, effectively emancipating slaves that came under Union control. 1862 Battle of Antietam Period: 1862 to 1863 Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign 1863 Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect– emancipating slaves under Confederate control 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville 1863 “Stonewall” Jackson killed by friendly fire 1863 New York City Draft Riots 1864 Sherman captures Atlanta 1864 Lincoln re-elected 1865 End of Civil War 1865 John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln 1865 Andrew Johnson became President Jan 31, 1865 Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery 1866 Fourteenth Amendment adoped
