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1800 | U.S. federal offices are moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. - the new capital city |
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1800 | Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion |
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1800 | Library of Congress established |
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1801 | New York passes Emancipation Act |
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1801 | Thomas Jefferson inaugurated President of U.S. GO ! |
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1801 | Judiciary Act |
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1801 | New Land Act |
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1802 | Ohio outlaws slavery |
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1802 | Judiciary Act repealed |
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1803 | Ohio is the 17th state admitted to the Union |
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1803 | U.S. buys large tract of land from Louisiana Purchase GO ! |
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1803 | Marbury v. Madison (the Court rules a law unconstitutional and thus creates the precedent of judicial review) GO ! |
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1803 | Lewis and Clark expedition begins |
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1804 | 12th Amendment Ratified |
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1805 | Thomas Jefferson begins his second term as President of U.S. GO ! |
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1805 | Treaty of St. Petersburg by Britain and Russia against France, joined by Austria |
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1805 | Pike explores the West |
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1805 | Palmer v. Mulligan |
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1807 | Embargo Act GO ! |
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1807 | Chesapeake-Leopard affair |
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1807 | Congress passes Non-Importation Act to end international slave trade GO ! |
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1808 | Cherokee legal code established |
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1809 | James Madison becomes 4th President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1809 | Tecumseh's confederacy formed |
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1810 | Fletcher vs. Peck (Marshall rules that the Constitution forbids state laws "impairing" contracts |
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1810 | Macon's Bill #2 GO ! |
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1812 | Louisiana is the 18th state admitted to the Union |
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1812 | U.S. declares war on Britain GO ! |
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1812 | Madison re-elected GO ! |
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1812 | West Florida annexed |
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1814 | Treaty of Fort Jackson ends Creek War |
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1814 | Treaty of Ghent ends British-American war GO ! |
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1814 | Hartford Convention GO ! |
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1815 | U.S. establishes military posts in trans-Mississippi West |
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1816 | Indiana is the 19th state admitted to the Union |
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1816 | Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (establishes U.S. Supreme Court's power to review state court decisions) |
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1816 | Second Bank of the United States chartered |
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1817 | Mississippi is the 20th state admitted to the Union |
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1817 | Rush-Bagot Treaty |
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1817 | Bonus Bill |
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1817 | James Monroe inaugurated as fifth President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1818 | Illinois is the 21st state admitted to the Union |
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1818 | Jackson Purchase in Kentucky |
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1818 | Border between Canada and U.S. agreed upon |
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1818 | First Seminole War |
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1819 | Alabama is the 22nd stateadmitted to the Union |
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1819 | Treaty of Saginaw in Michigan |
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1819 | Florida purchased by U.S. from Spain |
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1819 | Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain GO ! |
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1819 | McCulloch v. Maryland (establishes the superiority of the federal government) GO ! |
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1819 | Bank panic and depression |
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1819 | Dartmouth College v. Woodward (Expands the principle of the Fletcher decision to include contracts between corporations and states) GO ! |
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1820 | Maine is the 23rd stateadmitted to the Union |
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1820 | Missouri Compromise GO ! |
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1820 | Land Act of 1820 |
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1820 | South becomes world's largest cotton producer |
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1821 | Missouri is the 24th state admitted to the Union |
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1821 | James Monroe begins second term as U.S. president |
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1821 | Stephen Austin leads American settlement of Texas |
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1821 | Beginning of Indian removals |
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1822 | Diplomatic recognition of Latin American republics |
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1822 | Denmark Vesey's conspiracy in Charleston |
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1823 | The Monroe Doctrine closes American continent to colonial settlements by European powers GO ! |
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1824 | John Q. Adams elected president |
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1824 | Frontier treaty signed between Russia and U.S. |
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1824 | U.S. House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as president when none of the four candidates wins a majority in the national election GO ! |
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1824 | Sturges v. Crowninshield |
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1824 | Clay's "American System" |
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1824 | Bureau of Indian Affairs established in War Department |
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1824 | Gibbons v. Ogden (established the superiority of the federal government) GO ! |
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1825 | Anglo-Russian Treaty of British territory in north-western N. America |
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1827 | Cherokee adopt written constitution |
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1828 | Calhoun publishes Exposition and Protest
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1828 | Tariff of Abominations |
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1829 | Andrew Jackson inaugurated at President of the U.S. GO ! |
