Period 4 APUSH

1800

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1803

Louisiana Purchase

Marbury v. Madison

1804

Reelection of Jefferson

1807

Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

Embargo Act

1808

Election of James Madison

1810

Fletcher v. Peck

1811

Battle of Tippecanoe

1812

Beginning of War of 1812

Reelection of Madison

1814

Burning of Washington D.C.

Hartford Convention

Treaty of Ghent

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1816

Election of James Monroe

Chartering of the Second Bank of the United States

Tariff 1816(20-25%)

1817

Bonus Bill(funding for roads and canals)

Construction of Erie Canal

Rush-Bagot Treaty(world’s longest unfortified boundary)

1818

Treaty of 1818(Joint occupation of Oregon)

1819

Panic of 1819

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

McCulloch v.Maryland

1820

Missouri Compromise

Reelection of Monroe

Land Act of 1820(80 acres for $1.25)

1821

Opening of Lowell factories

Cohens v. Virginia

Massachussets Constitutional Convention

1822

Stephen Austin establishes first American settlement in Texas

1823

Monroe Doctrine (non-colonization and nonintervention)

1824

Gibbons v. Ogden

Election of John Quincy Adams

Russo-American Treaty(54°40’)

1825

Erie Canal

1827

Public school movement begins in Boston

1828

Tariff of Abominations(45%)

Election of Andrew Jackson

1829

Publication of “David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”

1830

Opening of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Indian Removal Act

“Trail of Tears”

Founding of Mormonism

1831

William Lloyd Garrison begins publications of the Liberator

1832

Beginning oft he Nullification Crisis

Tariff of 1832(32%)

Jackson vetoes renewal of Second Bank of the United States

Worcester v. Georgia

Reelection of Jackson

1833

Founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society

1834

Whig Party organized

Indian Interclosure Act

First strike by “Lowell girls”

1835

“Democracy in America” by Tocqueville

1836

“Gag rule:

Specie Circular

Battle of Alamo

Texas Independence

Bureau of Indian Affairs

1837

Panic of 1837

Elijah Lovejoy murdered by proslavery mob

1838

“Trail of Tears”

1840

Election of Henry Harrison

Formation of the Liberty Party

1841

John Tyler assumes presidency upon Harrison’s death

Book Farm founded

Dorothea Dix organizes movement for asylum reform

Dorr Rebellion(Rhode Island)

1842

End of Second Seminole War

Aroostook War

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

The Tariff of 1842

1844

Samuel Morse invents telegraph

Election of James Polk

1845

Texas annexation and statehood

Beginning of Irish “potato famine”

1846

Creation of Independent Treasury(Divorce Bill)

Resolution of dispute with Great Britain over Oregon Territory

Beginning of Mexican War

Spot Resolution

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War

Gold found in California

General Incorporation Law

1851

Herman Melville writes Moby Dick