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invented a machine that sped up the process of removing seeds from the cotton fiber.
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Thomas Jefferson is elected the third president of the United States.
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was a deal between the US and France for the land.
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established the principle of judicial review. the power of federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional
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the corps of discovery was a selected group of US Army.
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was a treaty between the Sauk and Fox peoples and the United States that had been signed in St. Louis in November 1804, by which the Indians agreed to cede to the United States all of their lands east of the Mississippi and some claims west of it.
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it prohibited ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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it was a naval engagement between the british warship HMS Leopard and Chesapeake the American Frigate USS
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he was elected the 6th president.
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lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or french ports
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The Treaty of Ghent signed on Dec. 24, 1814 returned all territorial conquest made by two sides.
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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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him and the Indian resistance movement allied with the british against the american during the war of 1812. his death caused a collapse in the alliance.
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Between the US and England, the british troops enter washignton dc and burn the white house in retaliation for the american attack on the city of York, in Ontario, Canada
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this ended the war of 1812 between the US and Great Britain. the senate ratified it .
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First major battle of the War of 1812. Commanded under Andrew Jackson that successfully repelled the invading British army
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was a series of meetings which the new england feda party met to discuss thier grievances concerning the ongoing war of 1812
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The Bank of the United States was a sensitive issue from its outset. The First one expired indifferently in 1811, and the Second Bank was chartered five years later, in 1816.
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was elected the 5th president of the US
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national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel
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Was a treaty between the united states and the united kingdom limit the naval ships on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
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an international treaty between the US, UK, and Ireland.
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was a treaty between the US and Spain that ceded Florida to the US and defined the boundary between the US and the New Spain.
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the first important Supreme court cases on federal power.
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was an effort to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of missouri for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
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Banks throughout the country failed; mortgages were foreclosed, forcing people out of their homes and off their farms. Falling prices impaired agriculture and manufacturing, triggering widespread unemployment.
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U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court held that the charter of Dartmouth College granted in 1769 by King George III of England was a contract and, as such, could not be impaired by the New Hampshire legislature.
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injustices and alleviate suffering such as the Temperance Movement, the Women's suffrage Movement and the Abolitionist Movement in which people advocated for emancipation on religious grounds.
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a carpenter leader of african americans in charleston, south carolina, was accused and convicted of being a major potenial slave revolt leader planned for the city, he was excueted.
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a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas.
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was 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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established the village as his preliminary model for a utopian community.
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it greatly facilitated the transportation of passengers and freight between the eastern seaboard and Michigan ports.
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he published his six sermons on intemperance, which passed through many American and English editions. Beecher helped to found (1816) the American Bible Society
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John Quincy Adams named Henry Clay to be his secretary of state, Jackson denounced the election as "the corrupt bargain." ... As for John Quincy Adams, he served four years as president before being defeated by Jackson when he ran for reelection in 1828.
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protective tariffs taxed all foreign goods, to boost the sales of US products and protect Northern manufacturers from cheap British goods. It followed the wave of Nationalism in the country following the War of 1812.
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achers, but also advocated for an expansion and development of teacher training programs, claiming that the work of a teacher was more important to society than that of a lawyer or doctor.
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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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Mormon prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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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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he convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. They said that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession.
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the party was formed opposing the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party
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The burned-over district is the western and central regions of New York in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place.
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war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan (or Texian) volunteers led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, seizing control of San Antonio.
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was signed on this day in 1835, ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation.
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heir first official meeting was held eleven days later at Ripley's house in Boston.
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series of elementary school reading books that were widely used in American schools beginning in the 1830s.
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the government would only accept gold or silver in payment for federal land. This act prevented working-class Americans from purchasing federal land in the West, including in Ohio, due to the lack of gold and silver.
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was 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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President of the Massachusetts State Senate at the time, was appointed the board's first Secretary.
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was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. ... He won the 1836 presidential election with the endorsement of popular outgoing President Andrew Jackson and the organizational strength of the Democratic Party.
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was a 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. Pessimism abounded during the time.
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Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838
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art 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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when he campaigned vigorously and won the presidency on November 5, 1844. He was called a "dark horse" candidate because he was not expected to beat his opponent, Henry Clay of the Whig Party, to become the 11th president of the United States.
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was a diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States, signed on July 3, 1844
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Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan.
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the 7th president of the US from 1829-1837
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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.
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small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic.
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he and his family and followers went West to Oneida, New York, where in 1848 they founded the community of the Oneida Perfectionists.
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war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim)
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as the largest mass migration in American history since it brought about 300,000 people to California. It all started on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall found gold on his piece of land at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. The news of gold quickly spread around.
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titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, 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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Thoreau's minor act of defiance caused him to conclude that it was not enough to be simply against slavery and the war. A person of conscience had to act.
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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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was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan.
