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Became the first president of the United States
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John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president,
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In the summjer of 1794 a group of farmers in pennsylvania staged the Whiskey Rebellion against tax.
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Created the Cotton Gin
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The cotton Gin a machine made by Eli Whitney it helped slaves because it took the seeds out for them also speed up work time.
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Encompassing the western half of the Mississippi River basin, the Louisiana Territory was acquired from France in 1803
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In Marbury v. Madison the Supreme Court announced for the first time the principle that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution
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He was the fourth president of the United States. He was also a founding father
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In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world,
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The leadership of Andrew Jackson, the seventh United States president, helped shape the modern Democratic Party.
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Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America's national anthem
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factory machines replaced hand tools and large scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work.
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In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country
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Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was the first president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject.
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the fifth U.S. president, oversaw major westward expansion of the U.S. and strengthened American foreign policy in 1823 with the Monroe Doctrine
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The Erie Canal is a historic waterway of the United States, connecting the Great Lakes with New York City via the Hudson River at Albany
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John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts was an accomplished diplomat who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
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the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
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A former Franciscan mission near San Antonio, the Alamo was the site of an 1836 battle between Mexican troops and a small number of Texan defenders.
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The Panic of 1837 was a nationwide, financial depression that gripped the country between 1837 and 1843
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Indian fighter and War of 1812 military hero, William Henry Harrison served as president for only one month after his election in 1840.
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Tyler was the 10th president of the United States, who took over upon the death of William Henry Harrison
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The 11th U.S. president, James Polk served from 1845 to 1849 and led the country during a time of great expansion.
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The United States' victory in the Mexican-American War led to the acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.
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On February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States..
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th U.S. president and the last to represent the Whig Party.
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Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850.
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This 1854 bill organizing the western territories led to violent conflict and heightened tensions in the years before the Civil War.
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In 1857, in one of the most controversial events preceding the American Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford.
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James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president, served from 1857 to 1861, a time when America was on the brink of civil war.
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The West Virginia town of Harpers Ferry was the site of an 1859 raid that was a major precursor to the Civil War.
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The 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln led the Union to victory in the Civil War and emancipated the South's African-American slaves.
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In 1860-61, after years of rising tensions, 11 southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America, leading to the American Civil War.
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Reconstruction refers to the period of upheaval in the American South after the Civil War and abolition of slavery.
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The Civil War is often referred to as the first "modern" war. Many of the technologies devised during that period permanently changed the way wars were fought.
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The First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas), fought on July 21, 1861, was the first major engagement of the Civil War.
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Fought in April 1862, the Battle of Shiloh was the second great engagement of the American Civil War.
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Fought along Antietam Creek, at Sharpsburg, Maryland, this battle brought about America's bloodiest day
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Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on January 1, 1863 freed slaves in those states which remained in rebellion during the American Civil War.
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In July 1863, Union and Confederate forces clashed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War.
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In one of the most brilliant campaigns of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, splitting the Confederacy in two.
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William Tecumseh Sherman introduced the concept of "total war" and broke the back of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
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At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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Ulysses Grant commanded the Union army during the Civil War and later became the 18th U.S. president.
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Samuel Morse created a Morse Code--a system that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines
