US History 1301 Unit 2 Timeline

By JonathanDCastillo

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Bill of Rights passed

  • Revenue Act of 1789

    Established custom duties and excise taxes on alcohol

  • French Revolution of 1789

    led to the outbreak and formation of the French Republic

  • Washington DC Designated as Capital

  • Assumption Act of 1790

    Federal government assumes the debts of states

  • The U.S. Bank

  • Bill of Rights ratified

  • Bank Act of 1791

    establishment of central bank

  • Steam Engine on Delaware River

    John Fitch of Philadelphia employed it.

  • Washington reelected president

    John Adams VP

  • French Republic

  • Cotton Gin Invented

    Eli Whitney

  • Whiskey Rebellion of 1794

    Farmers refused to pay excise tax on alcohol in western Pennsylvania

  • Election of 1796

    John Adams (Federalist) wins

  • Navy Act

    founded the US Navy

  • Army Act

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    A. Naturalization Act
    B. Alien Friends Act
    C. Alien Enemies Act
    D. Sedition Act

  • Bankruptcy Act of 1798

    widespread debts and bankruptcies

  • French Rep. Gov't overthrown

    Overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte

  • George Washington Died

  • Treaty of San Ildefenso

    returned Louisiana Territory to French control

  • Jeffersion Takes Oath of OFfice

  • Tripolitanian War

  • France/England End War with Peace of Amiens

  • War in Europe

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty

  • Madison vs. Marbury

    Act of congress declared null, void, and unconstitutional

  • USS Philadelphia captured by Tripoli

  • Burr kills Hamilton in duel

  • Raiders burned USS Philadelphia

  • Impeachment Trial of Samuel Chase

  • Burr's treason trial

  • Chesapeake-Leopard affair

  • Orders in Council

  • Clermont was established

    Robert Fulton's (NY) steamboat service on the Hudson River

  • Embargo Act

  • Prophetstown

    founded by Shawnee Indian brothers

  • James Madison elected President

  • Non-Intercourse Act

    replaced Embargo Act

  • War of 1812

  • Hartford Convention

  • Treaty of Ghent

    End of War. News didn't reach US until after Battle of NOLa

  • Brittish Offensive of 1814

  • Battle of Lundy Lane

  • Burning of Washington D.C.

  • Attack on Baltimore

  • Napoleon Defeated

    Ended war in Europe.
    Ended in Paris

  • Hartford Convention adjourned

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • Madison's Message

  • Napoleon's Hundred days

    Napoleon on remote island after his defeat

  • Bank Act of 1816

  • Tariff Act of 1816

  • James Monroe elected President

  • Indiana is a state

  • American Colonization Society

    formed by Henry Clay; for slaves. Perhaps create an African-American territory

  • Mississippi is a state

  • Rush-Bagot Agreement

    Cooperation on the Great Lakes

  • Illinois

  • London Convention of 1818

    49th parallel set as boundary between the St. Lawrence River Basin and the Rocky Mountains

  • Alabama is a state

  • Panic of 1819

    Land prices fell drastically

  • Algerian War

    Commodore Stephen Decatur forced to Algiers to sign a treaty

  • Florida Treaty of 1819

    in effect until 1821. US-Spanish Border: Sabine River, Red River, Arkansas River; renunciation of Texas

  • Maine is a state

  • James Monroe Elected to second term

    James Monroe elected to second term

  • Missouri is a state

  • Andrew Jackson Govenor of Florida

  • West Indian Squadron

    Anti-piracy campaign in the caribbean

  • Andrew Jackson begins presidential campaign

    Quits army to do so

  • Cumberland Road Bill

    Monroe vetoed

  • Monroe Doctrine

    prevents European interference in North America; issued by J. Q. Adams

  • American System

    Proposed by Henry Clay; funds internal improvement

  • John Quincy Adams elected President

  • Tariff of 1816

    led to growsth of Industry - mostly in Northeast

  • Congress raises tariff

  • First passenger train run

    George Stephenson

  • Panama Congress

    Simon Boliver wants a meeting about funding of non-white delegations.

  • Baltimore and Ohio Company

    First steam railroad in America

  • Adams vs. Jackson

    Jackson winds election

  • Tariff of 1828

    upset the south. Very high protective tariff.

  • Treaty of Indian Springs

    Gov. George Troope (GA) signs treaty with Creek Indian chief, William McIntosh

  • Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

    publication by David Walker

  • Webster-Hayne Debate

    Between Daniel Webster (Mass) and Robert Hayne (SC).

  • Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia

    Indian tribes are a domestic dependent nation.

  • Election of 1832

    Jackson wins again.

  • Worcestor vs. Georgia

    Georgia arrested a missionary for operating on Cherokee grounds.

  • Tariff of 1832

    lower tariff.

  • Bank Recharter Bill

  • Compromise Tariff of 1833

  • American Anti-Slavery Society

    Founded by William Lloyd Garrison

  • Whig Party formed

    formed under H. Clay. replace the Nationals and Anti-Masonic to go against Democrats (Jackson)

  • John Marshall Died

  • Treaty of New Echota

    Major Ridge signed a treaty giving Cherokee land to US without consent of the principal chief.

  • Second Seminole War

    Semionles revolt to avoid removal.

  • Roger Taney appointed Chief Justice

    Appointed by Jackson

  • First commercial telegraph

    in England; Samuel Morse US 1844

  • Trail of Tears

    Forced Indian removal.

  • Major Ridge kiilled

  • Winfield Scott appointed General in Chief

    Led the US Army

  • Second Seminole War ends

    Williams Worth brought war to close.