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a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.
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a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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Gabriel organized a group of 25 slaves to rebel but was betrayed and ultimately the plan failed
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Thomas Jefferson is elected the third president of the United States. The election constitutes the first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another in the United States.
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a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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arguably the most important case in Supreme Court history, was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review" -- the power of federal courts to void acts of Congress in conflict with the Constitution.
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the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
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a law passed by the United State Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson on December 22, 1807. It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
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4th U.S. President
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This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.
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smuggled plans for a power loom out of england
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most often associated with the territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1860. This era, from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War, has been called the "age of manifest destiny".
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Tecumseh's death marked the end of Indian resistance east of the Mississippi River, and soon after most of the depleted tribes were forced west
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a British invasion of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812.
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a convention in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing spending
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a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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fought on Sunday, January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham, and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson
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The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. Peace negotiations began in Ghent, Belgium, starting in August of 1814. After four months of talks, the treaty was signed on December 24, 1814
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the mood of victory that swept the nation at the end of the War of 1812.
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He was elected the fifth president of the United States in 1817.
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a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812.
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The Convention of 1818 set the boundary between the Missouri Territory in the United States and British North America (later Canada) at the forty-ninth parallel.
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a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
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In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted
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the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States. It was followed by a general collapse of the American economy that persisted through 1821.
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The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, ruled in their favor, saying that New Hampshire had violated the so-called contract clause of the United States Constitution.
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An attempted slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina. This revolt failed because a participant told authorities about the plan
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a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas
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John Quincy Adam's victory in the presidential election of 1824 was unusual because he did win the popular vote or the electoral vote. In fact, no candidate won the majority of the electoral votes. So, according to the Constitution, the House of Representatives had to choose the winner.
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The Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
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a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.
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the religious group that owned the property and had founded the communal village of Harmony (or Harmonie) on the site in 1814, decided to relocate to Pennsylvania.) Owen renamed it New Harmony and established the village as his preliminary model for a utopian community.
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It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
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They were sent throughout the United States, ran rapidly through many editions in England, and were translated into several languages on the European continent, and had a large sale even after the lapse of 50 years.
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7th president of the U.S.
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
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In 1830-31, he led a revival in Rochester, New York that has been noted as inspiring other revivals of the Second Great Awakening.
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a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
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Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill re-chartering the Second Bank in July 1832 by arguing that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution.
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when South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutional.
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a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
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a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States
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ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation.
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"Published at the desire of a meeting of Ladies in New York."
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Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 1836, to discuss the formation of a new club
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Begins with the alphabet. Early lessons have simple three- and four-word sentences of one line each. Progresses to longer sentences and full paragraphs. Original illustrations throughout. Can be used in first and second grades.
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the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841.
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a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 pursuant to the Coinage Act and carried out by his successor, President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.
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was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian defenders.
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President of the Massachusetts State Senate at the time, was appointed the board's first Secretary.
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a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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Smith announced a revelation in 1838 which renamed the church as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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The "Divinity School Address" is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School
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part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma
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a treaty that resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies
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a diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States, signed on July 3, 1844 in the Kun Iam Temple.
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Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the Republic of Texas.
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During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
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war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848)
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a small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic.
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The Oneida Community was a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes
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Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo
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when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849
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American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
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The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased
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the Convention of Kanagawa or Kanagawa Treaty was the first treaty between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate. Signed under threat of force, it effectively meant the end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion, by opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels
