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Washington is inaugurated. Suggestions for addressing the president include "Excellency" and "Highness."
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U.S. population totals 3.9 million, including app. 760,000 African Americans, of whom 700,000 are enslaved. Congress meets in Philadelphia and plans a new capital on the Potomac.
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First Bank of the United States is chartered for a twenty-year period. Vermont enters the Union as the 14th State.
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Kentucky enters the Union as the Union as the 15th state; first state to grant universal manhood suffrage. Washington and Adams are re-elected president and vice-president.
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In which farmers in western Pennsylvania protest the excise tax on whiskey, is put down by federal troops.
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Begins when France attempts to bride U.S. commissioners in Paris, sparking the bulding tension between the nations.
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In Virginia at the age 67 (born 1736).
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Tripoli declares war on U.S. Jefferson sends U.S. ships to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Is purchased from France for $15 million, nearly doubling the size of the U.S.
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Begins in St. Louis. Ohio enters the Union as the 17th state, granting universal manhood suffrage.
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After U.S. troops capture Darna. Piracy by Barbary States continues until 1815.
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(importation of slaves) is passed by Congress, as required by the Constitution. Embargo Act is passed by Congress in response to British and France interference with U.S. trade.
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Congress allows trade with all countries except France and Britain. Abraham Lincoln is born (16th president, 1861-1865)
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U.S. population totals 7.2 million, including 1.4 million African Americans, of whom 1.2 million are enslaved; population west of Appalachian Mountains is 1 million.
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Begins as U.S. declares war on Great Britain over issues of borders,trade,freedom of the seas, and the rights of neutrals. In general, the war is supported by westerners and opposed by New Englanders. Indians under Tecumseh fight on the side of the British. Louisiana enters the Union as the 18th state.
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Madison is re-elected president and Elbridge Gerry elected vice president (Democratic-Republican)
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With signing of Treaty of Ghent.
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With defeat by U.S. troops in Battle of Horseshoe Bend (Alabama)
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(Alabama & Mississippi territories ) is opened to migration of American settlers after the defeat of the Indians in the Creek War.
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James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins are elected president and vice president (Democratic-Republican).
