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U.S. Govt. under the constitution begins
Washington is elected, suggestions for addressing the president "Excellency" and "Highness." Washington states the U.S. neutral after the French Revolution begins in paris. -
First Census
U.S. population is 3.9 Million, including 760,000 African Americans 700,000 of whom are enslaved. first petition submitted to congress to emancipate slave. Seneca chief Cornplanter appeals to Pres. Washington to abide to the land boundaries set in 1784. -
Bill of Rights is Ratified
Vermont enters as the 14th state. Benjamin Banneker wrights Jefferson to apply the Declaration's principles to enslaved people.
U.S. troops are defeated by the Miami Indians in Ohio after being sent by Washington to respond to the massace of the settlers to big bottom. -
Presidential election
Washington & Adams are re-elected as president & vice-pres.
Kentucky enters the Union as the 15th state; first state to grant universal manhood suffrage. -
Washington declares U.S. neutral as war brakes out.
war between France & Great Britain brakes out. Indians of the Northwest entreat the U.S. to keep the Ohio River as the boundary of Indian lands. Yellow fever in Philadelphia results in over 4,000 deaths. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Britan withdraws from the Northwest Territory, U.S. agrees to pay pre-Revolution debt.
WHISKEY REBELLION, farmers in western Pennsylvania protest the tax on whiskey. -
Northwest Territory
Spain alows the U.S. navigation rights on the Mississippi River, the 13th parallel is set as a border between Spain and the U.S.
Northwest Territory is opened for settlement. -
Presidential Election
Tennessee enters as the 16th state, granting universal manhood suffrage.
PERSIDENTIAL ELECTION, John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson for pesident (Jefferson becomes Vice- President) -
"quasi war"
1798-1800 France attempts to bribe the U.S.commissions in paris, sparking the building tension between the two. -
George washington dies
Washington dies in Virginia at age 67 (born 1736)
Weem's "The Life and Memorable Acts of George Washingtion" inclueding the cherry-tree myth, is published the next year. -
second census & presidential elections
U.,S. population totals 5.3 million, including one million African Americans, of whom 900,000 are enslaved.
A new land act provided c redit and low down payments for buying land in the northwest territory, thus opening the area to greater settlement.
Jefferson & Burr tie for president, defeating adams & pinckney -
barbary war begins
Tripoli declares war on the U.S.; Jefferson sends U.S. ships to the Mediterranean sea -
louisiana territory
purchased from France for $15 million, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. -
12th amendment
the twelfth amendment is ratified, providing for separate election for president & vice president -
barbary war ends
Barbary war ends after U.S. troops capture of Darna. Piracy continues until 1815. -
ban on slave trade
ban in slave trade is passed by congress, as requierd by the constitution.
Embargo act is passed by congress in response to british & French interference with U.S. trade. -
presidential elections
James Madison elected president and George Clinton reelected as vice president. -
third census
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. -
presidential election
James Monroe & Daniel Tompkins are elected president & vice president. -
Fourth census
U.S. population totals 10 million, including 1.7 million African Americans, of whom 1.5 million are enslaved : population west of the Appalachian Mts. is 2.2 million 6% of Americans live in cities.
