Jeffersonian Democracy - 1800-1824 * In this time period a raging debate between the federalists and anti-federalists over how the constitution should be interpreted dominated national politics as America began to establish its place in the world.*

 

1800 • Convention of 1800: Peace with France • Second Great Awakening begins • 1800-1804               – Thomas Jefferson elected

1801 • Judiciary Act

1801-1805 • Naval War with Tripoli

1802 • Revised naturalization law • Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed

1803 • Marbury v. Madison • Louisiana Purchase

1804 • Impeachment of Justice Chase •

1804-1808 – Thomas Jefferson re-elected

1804-1806 • Lewis and Clark expedition

1805 • Peace Treaty with Tripoli

1805-1807 • Pike’s explorations

1806 • Burr treason trial

1807 • Chesapeake affair • Embargo Act • Robert Fulton’s first steamboat

1808 • 1808-1812 – James Madison elected

1809 • Non-Intercourse Act replaces Embargo Act

1810 • Macon’s Bill No. 2 • Napoleon announces (falsely) repeal of blockade decrees • Madison              reestablishes non-importation against Britain • Fletcher v. Peck

1811 • Battle of Tippecanoe • Cumberland Road construction begins

1812 • 1812-1814 – War of 1812 • 1812-1816 – James Madison reelected

1812-1813 • American invasions of Canada fail

1813 • Battle of the Thames • Battle of Lake Erie

1814 • Battle of Plattsburgh • British burn Washington • Battle of Horseshoe Bend • Treaty of Ghent           signed • Era of Good Feelings begins

1814-1815 • Hartford Convention

1815 • Battle of New Orleans

1816 • Second Bank of he United States founded • Protectionist Tariff • 1816-1820 – James                     Monroe elected

1817 • Madison vetoes Calhoun’s Bonus Bill • Rush-Bagot agreement limits naval armament on Great           Lakes

1818 • Treaty of 1818 with Britain • Jackson invades Florida

1819 • Panic off 1819 • Spain cedes Florida to United States • McCulloch v. Maryland •                        Dartmouth College v. Woodward • Jefferson founds University of Virginia

1820 • Missouri Compromise • Missouri and Maine admitted to Union • Land Act • 1820-1824 –           James Monroe reelected

1821 • Cohens v. Virginia

1822 • Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina

1823 • Secretary Adams proposes Monroe Doctrine • Mexico opens Texas to American settlers 1824 • Russo-American Treaty • Lack of electoral majority for presidency throws election into the                 House of Representatives • 1824-1828 – John Quincy Adams elected

1825 • Erie Canal completed • House elects John Quincy Adams president 

 

Jacksonian Democracy 1824 – 1840 * After nearly 35 years of government run by the upper crust of society America was ready for a government for the common man. If nothing else, the time period occupied Jacksonian democracy was a time by and for the common man.*

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1824 • Russia stops colonial advances

1825 • Leasing of land to Indians • Deal with eastern Indians • Gives land in West so we could                  have the East

1829 • US-Mexican tensions rise • Boundaries drawn by both sides contradict • Mexico declines US           offer of 5 million for Texas

1830 • Congress passes Pre-emption Act • Homestead Act, $1.25 per acre for 160 acres, 12                   months to improve land

1830 • Indian Removal Act • Jackson forces Indians in West from their homelands

1830-1835 • Indian removal and problems • Choctaw moved completely by army • Bureau of                  Indian Affairs controls trade with tribes • Florida Seminoles revolt against removal to the West            • Cherokee give up Georgia for Oklahoma

1835 • Texas War for Independence • Americans resist Santa Anna in Texas • The Alamo and                    capture of Santa Anna at San Jacinto • War continues for ten more years in border battles •               Texan Independence, Sam Houston elected in1836 • Annexation of Texas to the US debated

1838 • The Trail of Tears • Cherokee removed from Georgia • General Winfield Scott • Indian                   Territory of the West

1840 • Anti-Mexico Sentiment • Texans join Mexican rebels against Mexican government •                         Blockade of Mexican ports

1840 • End of the Mountain Trapping 

 

Manifest Destiny (1841-1854) * Between 1841 and 1854 Americans spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific displacing hundreds of native peoples in their wake. They felt that as the people who had inherited a firm belief in God and the means to conquer a continent, they had the right to the new lands they had acquired.*

 

1840-1860 • Oregon Trail

1840-1844 • William M. Harrison elected

1841-1844 • Tyler takes over presidency after Harrison dies 4 weeks into office

1842 • 10 hour work day for children 12 and under in Massachusetts • Seminoles moved to Indian              territory • Aroostook War over Maine boundary

1843 • Dorthea Dix works on behalf of the insane

1844-1848 • James K. Polk elected

1845 • United States annexes Texas

1846 • Oregon boundary with Canada at the 49th parallel • Wilmot Proviso passes House of                   Representatives

1846-1848 • Mexican War

1846-1847 • Mormon migration to Utah

1848 • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention • Oneida                       Community established • Free Soil party organized • Karl Marx communist Manifesto •                      Mexican cession

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