American History 1800-1876

  • Thomas Jefferson elected president

  • Treaty of Cession

    Louisiana is purchased from France
  • Burr and Hamilton Duel

  • Robert Fulton invents the steamboat

  • James Madison Elected President

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Battle of 1812 begins

    Congress Declares war on Britain
  • Detroit is surrendered

  • Bombardment of Ft McHenry

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Tariff of 1816

  • Second bank of U.S established

  • James Monroe Elected President

  • Rush-Bagot Pact

    British remove fleet from the Great Lakes
  • Convention of 1818

    Establishes 49th Parallel boundary between Canada and U.S
  • Panic of 1819

    Bank starts calling in loans
  • Missouri Compromise

  • John Quincy Adams Elected President

  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

  • Tariff of 1828

    Large tariff called the tariff of abomination
  • Indian removal Act

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

  • Cyrus McCormick patoned the grain reaper

  • Martin Van Buren elected President

  • Panic of 1837

    The bank of the U.S. is not rechartered
  • William Henry Harrison elected president

  • John Tyler becomes president due to Harrison's Death

  • Great Migration

  • James K Polk is elected president

  • Mexico city is captured

  • Zachary Taylor is elected president

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Gold is discovered in California

  • Millard Fillmore becomes president due to Taylor's death

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Franklin Pierce Elected president

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • James Buchanan elected president

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president

  • Andrew Johnson becomes president due to Lincoln's death

  • Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

  • Ulysses S Grant is elected president