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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson elected March 4, 1801 -
James Madison
James Madison elected March 4, 1809 -
First Bank of the United States
First Bank of the United States charter expired -
War of 1812
Forced Creeks to relinquish millions of acres of land -
Tariff of 1816
Placed relatively high duties on imports of cheap English cotton cloth -
Rush-Bagot Pact
Eliminated British ships from the great lakes -
James Monroe
James Monroe elected March 4, 1817 -
Convention of 1818
Set boundary between US and British North America at 49th Parallel Oregon Country -
Adam-Onis Treaty, 1819
Guaranteed Spanish sovereignty over region -
Panic of 1819
First major depression
Abrupt drop in world agricultural prices -
Suffarage
many states instituted universal white male suffrage -
Harriet Tubman
Born a slave
Is known for helping many slaves escape
had a bounty on her worth $40000 (~$1.5 mil in current money) -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams elected March 4, 1825 -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson elected March 4, 1829 -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Granted land in present day Oklahoma and Kansas to the indians -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Most famous slave rebellion
Turner and 70 armed slaves and free blacks Slaughter white neighbors who enslaved them -
Force Bill, 1833
Reduced tariff rates to modest levels of 1816 by 1842 -
Treaty of New Echota, 1835
Made with a minor Cherokee fraction
All Cherokee made to abide by it and hade to leave their land -
Battle of San Jacinto, April 1836
Mexican army defeated -
Panic of 1837
Caused by Jackson shutting the bank down -
The American Scholar
American authors encouraged to find their own style -
Bible against Slavery
Theodor Weld
Teamed up with Grimke Sisters -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren elected March 4, 1837 -
Margret fuller
Started transcendental “conversation” -
Brook Farm
Most important transcendentalist communal
experiment -
John Tyler
John Tyler elected April 4, 1841 -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison elected March 4, 1841 -
Oregon trail
May 16, 1842
first organized wagon train left Elm Grove, MO with 100 pioneers -
First clipper ship
1845: First clipper ship “Rainbow”
Made for speed -
James K. Polk
James K. Polk elected March 4, 1845 -
Battle of Buena Vista
Nearly defeated Taylor’s Army -
Womens rights, discussions
1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized gathering of women’s rights -
Gold was discovered
Gold was discovered in California/Oregon -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor elected March 4, 1849 -
Womens rights continued
1850: First national women’s rights convention
made a program of action -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore elected July 9, 1850 -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce elected March 4, 1853 -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan elected March 4, 1857 -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln elected March 4, 1861
Killed 4-15-1865 -
Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
Union soldiers marched from Washington toward Richmond, VA
to meet up with Confederate Army
28,450 Union Soldiers against 32,230 Confederate Soldiers -
2nd Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
70,000 Union Soldiers against 55,000 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Antietam
87,000 Union Soldiers against 45,000 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Fredericksburg
100,007 Union Soldiers against 72,497 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Shiloh
65,085 Union Soldiers against 44,000 Confederate Soldiers -
Death of slavery
Slavery would be legally abolished in all states out of Union -
Battle of Chancellorsville
97,383 Union Soldiers against 57,352 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Chattanooga
56,359 Union Soldiers against 12,485 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Vicksburg
77,000 Union Soldiers against 33,000 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Atlanta
34,863 Union Soldiers against 40,438 Confederate Soldiers -
Wilderness Campaign
101,895 Union Soldiers against 61,025 Confederate Soldiers -
Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse
100,000 Union Soldiers against 52,000 Confederate Soldiers -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson elected April 15, 1865