Unit 5 Timeline

  • Constitution formally put into effect

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Washington was elected president

  • French Revolution begins

  • First official census

  • Bill of Rights adopted

  • Vermont decomes 14th state

  • Bank of the United States created

  • Excise tax passed

  • Period: to

    Federalist and Democratic-Republicans parties formed

  • France declares war on Britian and Spain

  • Neutrality Proclimation

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Jay's treaty with Britian

  • Pinckney's treaty with spain

  • Treaty of Greenville

  • Washington's farewell address

  • XYZ affairs

  • Adams becomes president

  • Alien and sedition acts

  • Period: to

    Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

  • Period: to

    Undeclared war with France

  • Jefferson defeats adams for presidency

  • Judicary acts of 1801

  • Period: to

    Naval war with Tripoli

  • Revised naturalization law

  • Mulberry V. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Jefferson reelected president

  • Period: to

    Lewis and Clark expedition

  • Burr Treason trail

  • Embargo Act

  • Madison elected president

  • Madison reelected president

  • United States declares war on Britain

  • Period: to

    American invasion of Canada fails

  • British burn Washington DC

  • Period: to

    Hartford convention

  • Monroe elected president

  • Second bank of the United States Founded