1-17 policies acts and significant events

George Washington

Judiciary Act of 1789 - court circuts

George Washington

Indian Affairs - General St. Clair puts down Indians in North West Territory

George Washington

Proclamation of Neutrality

George Washington

Whiskey/Farmers rebellion - farmers rebel whiskey and stuff

George Washington

Jay’s Treaty - Gave Uk right to search british ships

George Washington

Battle of Fallen Timbers - General Wayne beats over 1000 natives

George Washington

Pickney’s Treaty - gave us acess to missisipi river port + new orleans

John Adams

XYZ affairs - american diplomats asked to pay bribe to speak to french minister almost causes war

John Adams

Logan Act - outlawed private diplomacy for us

John Adams

alien and sedition acts

John Adams

fries rebellion - rebel against taxes

John Adams

Kentucky Resolution - Kentucky uses state right to override federal powers or smth

John Adams

Federal bankruptcy act - providing merchants and traders protection from debtors

John Adams

Treaty of Mortfontaine - quasi naval war with french ends

John Adams

Midnight appointments - slap into face to jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Tripoltian War - war with barbary pirates

Thomas Jefferson

Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Thomas Jefferson

Enabling act - territories under ordinance of 1787 become states

Thomas Jefferson

Abolition of slave trade

Thomas Jefferson

Leopard Incident - british ship leopard fires on us frigate chesapeake on chesapeake bay

Thomas Jefferson

Executive privelage - went to burrs trial and didnt show everythign adn shwocases his coolness

Thomas Jefferson

Embargo Act - suspended us sea trade in attemp to keep us netural ( didnt work)

James Madison

Non - intercourse act - trade resumed except britain and france

James Madison

Macon’s bill no. 2 - us resumes trade with france

James Madison

war os 1812 - war with britain cuz they kindapped sailors

James Madison

Creek indians declare war - battle of burnt corn made them mad so they declared war

James Madison

Hartford Convention - New england and federalists try to find compromise to war

James Madison

Second bank for US - set charter for second bank

James Monroe

“Era of Good feelings” - us was prospering

James Monroe

First Seminole war - War with indians

James Monroe

Rush-Bagot Agreement - dissarment of britain on great Lakes

James Monroe

Military Establishment Act - redues army’s manpower by 40%; shifted in priority towards commerce

James Monroe

Convention. of 1818 - agreement with britain to let fisherman fish in borders

James Monroe

Adams - Onis Treaty - Spain ceded florida to us

James Monroe

Missouri compromise - all slaves above mason dixon line were free al bellow were slaves

John Quincy Adams

Panama Congress - meeting to establish panama relations; southern ppl were scared slavery would be banned

John Quincy Adams

Captain Porter court martialed - oversteped authority by landing 200 troops in puerto rico

John Quincy Adams

Military Standardization and Integration - calls for productions and dispersla of training materials

John Quincy Adams

Sectional Tariff - protects live stock farmers and manufacturers

John Quincy Adams

Tariff of Abominations - high tax on improted british goods

Andrew Jackson

Kitchen cabinet - ignored own cabinet and met with his own ppl

Andrew Jackson

Spoils system - appointed friends to government positions

Andrew Jackson

Peggy Eaton Affair - criticzed same way ___ saw his wife criticized so __ defended her

Andrew Jackson

Force bill - authorized this president to do whatever the heck he wanted to eforce laws

Andrew Jackson

Specie circular - required payment for public land to be in gold and silver or hard money

Andrew Jackson

Tarriff and nullification - repealed tarriff of abominations

Andrew Jackson

Turner’s rebellion - Nat turner rebels

Andrew Jackson

Indian Removal Act - govenrment negotiated treaties to move tribe west

Andrew Jackson

Black Hawk War - war with indians

Martin Van Buren

Caroline Affair - ship caroline sent supplies to canadian rebels and british got mad and killed the ship

Martin Van Buren

Trail of tears 

Martin Van Buren

Aroostok War - no shots fired, border dispute with maine and canada

Martin Van Buren

Amistad - USSS washington seizes the slave ship

Martin Van Buren

The texas question - after texas won its independed this president opposed annexing it

Martin Van Buren

Second Seminole War - war with indians (ended during tyler)

Martin Van Buren

Independent Treasury Act - divorces federal treasury department from all relationships with banks

Martin Van Buren

panic of 1837 - built on speculative fever banks stop paying in specie

John Tyler

mass cabinet resignaton - whole cabinet except webster resigns

John Tyler

preemption act - ddeal with settlers to gain land

John Tyler

Webster ashburton treaty - settled boundary disupute with maine and canada

John Tyler

Dorr Rebellion - short armed riot in rhode island for changes in electoral ressurection

John Tyler

Princeton Explosion - new navy ship exploded killing secretory of state and navy

John Tyler

Treaty of Wanghia - access to chineese ports

John Tyler

independent trasury act repealed - repealed act passed during van buren

John Tyler

annexation of texas - us annexes texas

James Polk

Wilmot Proviso - stipulation that all land gained by mexico must be closed to slavery

James Polk

Oregon Treaty - settled oregon boundary dispute

James Polk

Bear Flag revolt - ~30 american settlers take over small mexican garrison in california

James Polk

Mexican War - war over texas boundary dispute and mexico’s unwillingness to sell land

James Polk

treaty of guadelapo hidilgiog - mexico cedes california and mew mixco territories for 15 mil

James Polk

Walker tarrif - lowered taxes on imported goods

James Polk

independent treasury act restored (the one apssed during van buren)

Zachary Taylor

Clayton - Bulwer Treaty - agreement with britain that any canal across central america was neutral - no hostile forts there

Zachary Taylor

Galphin Claim - interest owed to galphin family over revolutionary debts

Millard Fillmore

Cmpromise. of1850 - major compromise between free adn slave states 

Millard Fillmore

commodre perry mission to japan - sent to open trade in japan

Millard Fillmore

fugitive slave bill - prhibiting individiuals from runaway slaves

Franklin Pierce

Gadsden Purchase - purchases what is now a part of new mecico and arizona

Franklin Pierce

Kansas -Nebraska Act - admitted kansas and nebraska as free states (bleeding kansas)

Franklin Pierce

Sumner brooks affair - representer brooks abolitionist sumner on sneate floor

Franklin Pierce

Onstend Manifesto. -threatened to take cuba if spain doesnt sell it (bluff

Franklin Pierce

state of disunion convention - contemplated peaceful seperation of north and south

James Buchanan

Panick of 1857-economic depression is caused byt he failure of the ohio insuarance company

James Buchanan

Crittendenden compromise - last attempt to persuade southern states to stay in the union

James Buchanan

Harper’s Ferry - John brown raids harper’s ferry, virginia (now west virginia) with twenty men including five blcksin an effort to establish an abolitionist republic in the appalachians

James Buchanan

Comstock Lude - first ever us major silver strike, richest silver deposit found in nevada

James Buchanan

Dred Scott decision - asserted congress had no consitutional power to ban slavery in territories

James Buchanan

Secession

Abraham Lincoln

civil war

Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation proclamaiton

Abraham Lincoln

more secession (nc, sc , tn, virginia)

Abraham Lincoln

Homestead Act - granted settler 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years

Abraham Lincoln

Morrill Act - granted land to form state universities

Andrew Johnson

Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

tenure officie act - forbade president from removing public officials without senate approval

Andrew Johnson

Impeachment - avoids impeachment by one vote

Andrew Johnson

Burlingame treaty - established formal friendly relaitonship sbetween us and canada

Andrew Johnson

Fenian raid and the Battle of Ridgeway - between canadian militiament the fenian brotherhood an irish american organization lobbying for a free ireland

Andrew Johnson

Purchase of Alaska (seward’s folly) - secretary of state william seward buys alaska