Timeline Quiz Units 4-5 Flashcards
Thomas Jefferson elected president
“Revolution of 1800”
1800
Midnight Appointments
Marshal Court begins
1801
Marbury v. Madison established judicial review
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Non Importation Act: No British goods could be imported if they were available elsewhere
1806
Chesapeake and Leopard Incident
Embargo Act
Congress outlawed external slave trade: prices of slaves increases
1807
James Madison elected president
Internal slave trade outlaw takes affect
1808
Non-Intercourse Act replaces the Embargo Act
1809
Macon’s Bill No. 2 replaces the Non-Intercourse Act
1810
Charter of the First National Bank expires
1811
War of 1812
1812-1814
Hartford Convention
Federalist Party Collapses
1814-1815
Treaty of Ghent ends the war (War of 1812)
1814
Battle of New Orleans makes Andrew Jackson a national hero
1815
Starts “Era of Good Feelings”
1815
Second National Bank is chartered
Protective Tariff implemented
Jame Monroe is elected president
1816
McCulloch v. Maryland sets the precedent for use of Natural and Proper (Elastic) Clause
Adams-Onis Treaty trades FL to US for part of Modern TX
1819
Missouri Compromise
1820
Monroe Doctrine: prevent future European colonization in the Western Hemisphere
1823
Corrupt Bargain -> John Quincy Adams becomes president
end of the “Era of Good Feelings”
1824
The American System
1825-1829
Tariff of Abomination
2nd Party System Begins
Andrew Jackson elected president
1828
Transcendentalism
1830-1900
Indian Removal Act ratified
1830
Nat Turner’s slave revolt in Virginia
1831
2nd National Bank (charter renewal vetoed, end of the bank)
Nullification Crisis
Worcester v. Georgia
1832
Compromise Tariff
1833
Texas gained its independence from Mexico
“Gag Rule”
Martin Van Buren elected president
1836
Panic of 1837
1837
Mormon Migration to Utah begins
1839
William Henry Harrison elected president
1840
Harrison dies of viral pneumonia
VP John Tyler becomes president
1841
James K. Polk elected president
1844
Irish Potato famine
1845
Texas annexation approved
1845
Oregon border set at 49th parallel
Wilmot Proviso introduced
1846
Mexican-American War
1846-1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Free Soil Party
Seneca Falls Convention
Zachary Taylor elected president
1848
Know-Nothing (American) Party formed
1849
Taylor dies of acute gastroenteritis
VP Millard Fillmore becomes president
Compromise of 1850
1850
Franklin Pierce elected president
1852
Caning of Charles Sumner
Kansa-Nebraska Act passed
Gadsden Purchase
Bleeding Kansas
Republican Party formed
1854
James Buchanan elected president
1856
Dred Scott Decision
1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1858
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
1859
Abraham Lincoln elected president
December 20th: South Carolina is first state to secede
1860
Confederate Constitution ratified
Battle of Ft. Sumter
Tennessee is the last state to secede
Battle of Bull Run, VA
1861
Battle of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation signed
Homestead Act
1862
Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
Battle of Vicksburg, MS
Battle of Gettysburg, PA
Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address
1863
Shermans March to the Sea
1864
Freedman’s Bureau established
Lee surfers at Appomattox Courthouse
Lincoln assassinated
VP Andrew Johnson becomes President
1865
13th Amendment ratified, no slavery
1865
Black Codes instituted in South
Sharecropping begins
Freedmen’s Bureau renewed
Civil Rights Act passed
KKK formed
1866
Veto Proof Congress begins Congressional “Radical” Reconstruction
1867
The Grange Movement
1867-1880s
14th Amendment ratified
Impeachment of Andre Johnson
FT. Laramie Treaty signed
Ulysses S. Grant elected president
1868
Transcontinental Railroad completed
Knights of Labor formed
Wymoning grants women suffrage
1869
15th Amendment ratified: voting rights for black males
Standard Oil established
Thomas Nast intensifies political cartoons against Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
1870
Boss Tweed is arrested on corruption charges
1871
Panic of 1873 begins and causes rapid inflation
1873
Women’s Christian Temperance Union founded
Gold discovered in the Black Hills - CLuster’s Expedition
1874
Specie Resumption Act Ratified
1875
National Farmers Alliance formed
1875-1889
Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
1876
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes elected president
Reconstruction ends
Chief Joseph surrenders
1877