Time Period 4(1800-1854) Flashcards
Passage of the Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
The act was strongly supported by non-native people of the South, who were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the Five Civilized Tribes–Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee-Creek, Seminole, and original Cherokee Nations. Christian missionaries, most notably Jeremiah Evarts, protested against its passage.
Founding of Mormonism
The founder of Mormonism is Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), a singular American religious figure who called himself a prophet and in 1830, amid the excitement of the Second Great Awakening, formally organized the Church of Christ (later changed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator
1831 William Lloyd Garrison was the voice of the abolitionist movement. In 1831, Garrison published his first edition of The Liberator. Garrison proceeded to found the British anti-slavery society. In 1833, Garrison met with delegates from around the nation and found the American anti-slavery society.
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Peters) 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case. The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits. It ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, as the Cherokee was a dependent nation, with a relationship to the United States like that of a “ward to its guardian.”
Beginning of Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina’s 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. The controversial and highly protective Tariff of 1828 (known to its detractors as the “Tariff of Abominations”) was enacted into law during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. The tariff was opposed in the South and parts of New England. Its opponents expected that the election of Jackson as President would result in the tariff being significantly reduced.
Jackson vetoes renewal of Second Bank of the United States
1832
Worcester v. Georgia
1832
Founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society
1833
Whig Party Organized
1834
First Strike by the “Lowell girls”
1834
Publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
1835
Congress passes the “gag rule”
1836
Jackson issues Specie Circular
1836
The Battle of the Alamo
1836
Texas Independance
1836
Elijah Lovejoy murdered by pro-slavery mob
1837
“Trial of Tears”
1838
election of William Henry Harrison of the Whig party
1840
formation of the liberty party
1840
John Tyler assumes presidency upon Harrison’s death
1841
Brook Farm founded
1841
Dorothea Dix organizes movement for asylum reform
1843
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
1844
James Polk elected president
1844
Texan annexation
1844
Creation of the Independent Treasury
1846
resolution of dispute with Great Britain over Oregon Territory
1846
Beginning of the Mexican War
1846
Seneca Falls Convention
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War
1848
Gold found in California
1848
Herman Melville writes Moby Dick
1851
Ostend Manifesto
1854
