Ch. 9-16 Flashcards
Philadelphia Quakers found world’s first antislavery society
1775
First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade
1774
New Jersey constitution temporarily gives women the vote
1776
Articles of Confederation adopted by Second Continental Congress
1777
Massachusetts adopts first constitution drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote
1780
Articles of Confederation put into effect
1781
Military officers form Society or the Cincinnati
1783
Land Ordinance of 1785
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Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
1786
Shay’s Rebellion
1786
Meeting of five states to discuss revision of the Articles of Confederation
1786
Northwest Ordinance
1787
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1787
Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution
1788
Constitution formally put into effect
1789
Judiciary Act of 1789
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Washington elected president
1789
French Revolution begins
1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man (France)
1789
First official census
1790
Bill of Rights adopted
1791
Vermont becomes 14th state
1791
Bank of the United States created
1791
Excise tax passed
1791
Washington reelected president
1792
Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties formed
1792-1793
Louis XVI beheaded; radical phase of French Revolution
1793
France declares war on Britain and Spain
1793
Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
1793
Citizen Genêt affair
1793
Whiskey Rebellion
1794
Battle of Fallen Timbers
1794
Jay’s Treated with Britain
1794
Treaty of Greenville: Indians cede Ohio
1795
Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain
1795
Washington’s Farewell Address
1796
Adams becomes president
1797
XYZZY Affair
1797
Alien and Sedition Acts
1798
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
1798-1799
Undeclared war with France
1798-1800
Convention of 1800: peace with France
1800
Toussaint L’Ouverture launches Haitian Revolution
1791
Jefferson defeats Adams for presidency
1800
Judiciary Act of 1801
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Naval war with Tripoli
1801-1805
Revised naturalization law
1802
Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed
1802
Marbury vs. Madison
1803
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Haiti emerges as first independent black republic
1804
Jefferson reelected president
1804
Impeachment of Justice Chase
1804
Lewis and Clark expedition
1804-1806
Peace Treaty with Tripoli
1805
Battle of Trafalgar
1805
Battle of Austerlitz
1805
Pike’s explorations
1805-1807
Burr treason trial
1806
Chesapeake affair
1807
Embargo Act
1807
Madison elected president
1808
Non-Intercourse Act replaced Embargo Act
1809
Macon’s Bill No. 2
1810
Napoleon announces (falsely) repeal of blockade decrees
1810
Madison reestablishes nonimportation against Britain
1810
Battle of Tippecanoe
1811
United States declares war on Britain
1812
Fletcher v. Peck ruling asserts right of Supreme Court to invalidate state laws deemed unconstitutional
1810
Venezuela declares independence from Spain
1811
Madison reelected president
1812
American invasions of Canada fail
1812-1813
Battle of the Thames
1813
Battle of Lake Erie
1813
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
1814
Napoleon exiled to Elba
1814
British burn Washington D.C.
1814
Battle of Plattsburgh
1814
Treaty or Ghent signed ending War of 1812
1814
Hartford Convention
1814-1815
Congress of Vienna
1814-1815
Battle of New Orleans
1815
Napoleon’s army defeated at Waterloo
1815
Second Bank of the United States founded
1816
Protectionist Tariff of 1816
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Argentina declares independence from Spain
1816
Monroe elected president
1816
Madison vetoes Calhoun’s Bonus Bill
1817