APUSH Period 4

  • Martin Van Buren Elected President

    Martin Van Buren Elected President

    American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841.
  • Second Great Awakening Began

    Second Great Awakening Began

    Was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.
  • Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

    Horace Mann Elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

    Was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature
  • Thomas Jefferson Election

    Thomas Jefferson Election

    Thomas Jefferson was elected president
  • Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt

    Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt

    Was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    The United States acquired the vast domain of Louisiana Territory, some 828,000 square miles of land
  • Marbury v. Madison

    Marbury v. Madison

    A landmark case by the United States Supreme Court which forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
  • Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition

    Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition

    known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States
  • Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

    Joseph Smith Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

    the Mormon War, was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the United States government.
  • Embargo Act

    Embargo Act

    Prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. ... In 1806, France passed a law that prohibited trade between neutral parties, like the U.S., and Britain.
  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

    Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

    Was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on 22 June 1807, between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
  • James Madison Elected President

    James Madison Elected President

    The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively.
  • Non-Intercourse Act

    Non-Intercourse Act

    Unlike the Embargo, this act only forbade trade with France and Britain
  • Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans

    Francis Cabot Lowell Smuggled Memorized Textile Mill Plans

    Mills that employed women to work
  • End of the War of 1812

    End of the War of 1812

    A conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies.
  • Beginning of Manifest Destiny

    Beginning of Manifest Destiny

    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".
  • Death of Tecumseh

    Death of Tecumseh

    led a remnant of the confederation into an alliance with Britain during the War of 1812. Tecumseh was killed, and the surviving Native Americans withdrew from the alliance.
  • The British Burn Washington DC

    The British Burn Washington DC

    The Burning of Washington was a British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812.
  • Treaty of Ghent Ratified

    Treaty of Ghent Ratified

    Peace negotiations began in Ghent, Belgium, starting in August of 1814
  • Hartford Convection

    Hartford Convection

    series of meetings, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    Was a series of engagements fought between December 14, 1814 and January 18, 1815, constituting the last major battle of the War of 1812
  • Era of Good feeling Began

    Era of Good feeling Began

    Exaltation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, between northern and southern states.
  • Rush-Bagot Treaty

    Rush-Bagot Treaty

    Milestone in American diplomacy during the 19th century.
  • James Monroe Elected President

    James Monroe Elected President

    In Westmoreland County, Virginia, James Monroe fought under George Washington and studied law with Thomas Jefferson. He was elected the fifth president of the United States in 1817
  • Anglo-American Convention

    Anglo-American Convention

    the pact allowed New England fishermen access to Newfoundland fisheries, established the northern border of Louisiana territory and provided for the joint occupation of the Oregon Country for ten years.
  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    Adams-Onis Treaty

    Was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

    McCulloch v. Maryland

    Was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Panic of 1819

    Panic of 1819

    First major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821
  • Dartmouth College V. Woodward

    Dartmouth College V. Woodward

    This decision placed important restrictions on the ability of state governments to control corporations.
  • Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt

    Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt

    Led an aborted slave rebellion in Charleston; it aggravated the anxiety about possible federal interference with the institution of slavery
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    A United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823
  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    Gibbons v. Ogden

    Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce.
  • John Quincy Adams Elected President (corrupt Bargain)

    John Quincy Adams Elected President (corrupt Bargain)

    The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives.
  • Erie Canal Completed

    Erie Canal Completed

    In New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. Originally, it ran 363 miles.
  • Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York

    Charles B. Finney Lead Religious Revivals in Western New York

    American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism.
  • Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community

    Robert Owen Founded the New Harmony Community

    Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist, ​and social reformer, purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.
  • Tariff of Abominations

    Tariff of Abominations

    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.
  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Featured a re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election.
  • Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”

    Lyman Beecher Delivered His “Six Sermons on Intemperance”

    Abolition Movement. Cofounder and leader of the American Temperance Society. His Six Sermons on Intemperance were heard all over the US.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    Law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Worcester v. Georgia

    Held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands
  • Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of the United States

    Andrew Jackson Vetoed the Re-Charter of the Second Bank of the United States

    The form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution.The charter was bad policy for several technical reasons.
  • Nullification Crisis Began

    Nullification Crisis Began

    The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina
  • Black Hawk War

    Black Hawk War

    The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
  • Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.

    Creation of the Whig Party in the U.S.

    It originally formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party
  • Treaty of new Echota

    Treaty of new Echota

    It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia.
  • Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers

    Catherine Beecher Published Essays on the Education of Female Teachers

    Nation's public school system radically transformed
    -mostly work of the Whigs
    -Horace Mann - big on public schools
    -McGuffey's​ Reader
    -women became teachers - Catherine Beecher & Mary Lyon
  • Transcendental Club’s First Meeting

    Transcendental Club’s First Meeting

    Met in Massachusetts, to discuss the formation of a new club; their first official meeting was held eleven days later at Ripley's house in Boston.
  • First McGuffey Reader Published

    First McGuffey Reader Published

    The most popular and widely used. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
  • Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    The Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos, and formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.
  • Battle of the Alamo

    Battle of the Alamo

    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
  • Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular

    Andrew Jackson Issued Specie Circular

    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.
  • Panic of 1837

    Panic of 1837

    Financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”

    Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the “Divinity School Address”

    The common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838.
  • Trail of Tears Began

    Trail of Tears Began

    As 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.
  • Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    Resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies
  • Treaty of Wanghia with China

    Treaty of Wanghia with China

    Diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States, signed on July 3, 1844 in the Kun Iam Temple
  • James Polk Elected President

    James Polk Elected President

    When he was inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1849. James K. Polk, a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
  • U.S. Annexation of Texas

    U.S. Annexation of Texas

    The Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845–1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
  • Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau Published Civil Disobedience

    Having spent one night in jail in July of 1846 for refusal to pay his poll tax in protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau lectured before the Concord Lyceum in January of 1848 on the subject "On the Relation of the Individual to the State."
  • Start of the Mexican War

    Start of the Mexican War

    Armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province
  • Bear Flag Revolt

    Bear Flag Revolt

    A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule. It ignited the Mexican War and ultimately made California a state.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
  • John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community

    John Humphrey Noyes Founded the Oneida Community

    The people in this community rejected notation of family and marrige. All residents were "married" to all other residents
  • Gold Rush Began in California

    Gold Rush Began in California

    Began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
  • Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to the U.S.

    Commodore Matthew Perry Entered Tokyo Harbor Opening Japan to the U.S.

    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.
  • Kanagawa Treaty

    Kanagawa Treaty

    which established "permanent" friendship between the two countries.
    -The treaty GUARANTEED that the Japanese **would save shipwrecked Americans* and provide fuel for American ships* also *** opened the opportunity for trade between Japan and the United States The signing of this treaty signaled the end of Japanese isolation.*
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    Square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time.