Key Dates and Events for Era 4 Flashcards
In what year did Thomas Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
In what year was the Supreme Court Case “Marbury v. Madison?”
1803
When was Thomas Jefferson reelected?
1804
When was the “Chesapeake-Leopard Affair?”
1807
When was the Embargo Act put into place?
1807
In what year was James Madison elected?
1808
When was the Supreme Court case “Fletcher v. Peck?”
1810
When was the Battle of Tippecanoe?
1811
When did the War of 1812 begin?
Also known as Mr. Madison’s War.
1812
In what year did British forces burn Washington D.C.?
1814
When was the Hartford Convention?
This was a response to the War of 1812, as well as James Madison’s policies.
1814
When was the Treaty of Ghent signed?
This ended the War of 1812.
1814
When was the Battle of New Orleans?
1815
When was James Monroe Elected?
1816
When was the Second Bank of the U.S. chartered?
1816
When did the construction of the Erie Canal begin?
1817
In what year was the economic panic during this period?
1819
When was the Supreme Court Case “Dartmouth v. Woodward?”
1819
When was the Supreme Court case “McCulloch v. Maryland?”
1819
When was the Missouri Compromise established?
1820
In what year was Monroe reelected?
1820
When did the Lowell factories open?
1821
When was the Supreme Court case “Cohens v. Virginia?”
1821
When did Stephen Austin establish the first settlement in Texas?
1822
When was the Supreme Court case “Gibbons v. Ogden?”
1824
When was John Quincy Adams elected?
1824
When did the Erie Canal open?
1825
When did the public school movement begin in Boston?
1827
When was the passage of the “Tariff of Abominations?”
1828
When was Andrew Jackson elected?
1828
When was “David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World” published?
1829
In what year was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened?
1830
When was the Indian Removal Act passed?
1830
When was Mormonism founded?
1830
When did William Llyod Garrison begin publishing “The Liberator?”
1831
When did the Nullifcation Crisis begin?
1832
In what year did Jackson veto the renewal of the Second bank of the U.S.?
1832
When was the Supreme Court case “Worcester v. Georgia?”
1832
In what year was Jackson reelected?
1832
When was the American Anti-Slavery Society founded?
1833
When was the Whig party organized?
1834
When was the first strike of the Lowell girls?
1834
When did Alexis de Tocqueville publish “Democracy in America?”
1835
When did Congress pass the “gag rule?”
1836
When did Jackson issue the Specie Circular?
1836
When was the Battle of the Alamo?
1836
When did Texas gain independence?
1836
In what year was Elijah Lovejoy murdered by a proslavery mob?
1837
When was the Trail of Tears?
1838
When was William Henry Harrison elected?
1840
When was the Liberty party formed?
1840
When did John Tyler assume the presidency after Harrison’s death?
1841
When was Brook Farm founded?
1841
In what year did Dorothea Dix organize a movement for asylum reform?
1843
When did Samuel Morse invent the telegraph?
1844
When was James Pol elected?
1844
When was Texas annexed and made into a state?
1845
In what year was the Irish potato famine?
1845
When was the Independent Treasury created?
1846
When was the dispute over the Oregon territory resolved between the U.S. and Great Britain?
1846
In what year did the Mexican War begin?
1846
When was the Seneca Falls Convention?
1848
When was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed?
1848
When was gold found in California?
1848
When did Herman Melville write Moby Dick?
1851
