US history 1800-1876

By BeeWithANuke

  • 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