Unit 5 Timeline Project

  • Period: to

    1800's

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    The U.S. passed a law that admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state balancing the slave and free states. The law also banned slavery from the Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36 degree 30' parallel.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy that opposed European Colonialism and the United States would not interfere in European affairs in return the European powers won't interfere in the Americas.
  • Erie Canal Opened

    Erie Canal Opened

    The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. It triggered a large scale commercial and agricultural development, also many immigrated to the Midwest.
  • Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

    Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

    Construction begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it is the first public railroad in the U.S.
  • Andrew Jackson becomes president

    Andrew Jackson becomes president

    Andrew Jackson became the 7th president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, he seeked to act as the direct representative of the common man.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    A law that forced Native Americans in the South to move West of the Mississippi River and give up their ancestral lands.
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    The Trail of Tears was apart of a series of displacements of Native Americans by the government,
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion

    This was a rebellion by enslaved African Americans in Virginia, at least 51 white people were killed.
  • Panic of 1837

    Panic of 1837

    The panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a great depression.
  • James K. Polk elected president

    James K. Polk elected president

    James K. Polk gets elected as the 11th president of the United States
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    The phrase Manifest Destiny emerged and it revived territorial interests to expands the U.S. borders.
  • Mexican American War

    Mexican American War

    America declares war on Mexico to gain California and other South Western territories.
  • California Gold Rush

    California Gold Rush

    News spread rapidly that gold was found in California, over 300,000 foreigners rushed to California and it is estimated that 2 billion dollars worth of gold was extracted.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    The first women's rights convention was held and they discussed about social, civil, and religious conditions and also of course women's rights.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    Warfare between anti and pro slavery settlers erupts in Kansas.

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