American History 1801-1876

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  • Ohio becomes the 17th state

    Originally part of the Northwest Territory, Ohio was settled by farmers from New England, many of them Revolutionary War veterans who received land as payment for their military service. It became the 17th state on March 3, 1801.

  • Lewis and Clark

    The 29-man Corps of Discovery set out from St. Louis on May 14, 1804. In the next 28 months, Lewis and Clark traveled more than 12,000 kilometers through unfamiliar terrain inhabited by Indian tribes.

  • James Madison

    James Madison becomes the fourth President; Vice President Clinton begins second term

  • Continental map of the United States

    The map was made by John Melish. First to show the United States as a continental state, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

  • James Monroe

    James Monroe elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice president

  • Panic of 1819

    The first widespread and durable financial crisis in the United States.

  • James Monroe reelected president

    James Monroe reelected president unopposed, Daniel D. Tompkins reelected vice president.

  • Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.

  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams elected president by the House of Representatives;

  • Second Great Awakening

    The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The Second Great Awakening, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, sparked a number of reform movements.

  • Tariff of 1832

    It was a protectionist tariff in the United States. Enacted under Andrew Jackson's presidency. It reduced the existing tariffs to remedy the conflict created by the Tariff of 1828, but it was still deemed unsatisfactory by some in the South, especially in South Carolina. South Carolinian opposition to this tariff and its predecessor, the Tariff of Abominations, caused the Nullification Crisis. As a result of this crisis, the 1832 Tariff was replaced by the Compromise Tariff of 1833.

  • Texas Revolution

    It was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.

  • Van Buren

    Van Buren becomes the eighth President; Johnson, Vice President

  • Panic of 1837

    The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down; unemployment went up; and pessimism abounded.

  • Birth of the modern oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania

    Titusville is known as the place where the modern oil industry began. Drake used an old steam engine to drill a well that began the first large-scale commercial extraction of petroleum. By the early 1860s, western Pennsylvania had been transformed by the oil boom.

  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) was the 16th president of the United States. In 1860, he was elected president of the United States on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery to the American West, a stance that precipitated the secession of the southern states from the Union.

  • Bull Run

    The first major battle of the American Civil War. Named for the creek or “run” in northern Virginia along which the fighting took place, Bull Run was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The chief results of the war were the abolition of slavery and the preservation of the United States as a union.

  • Southern states secede from the Union

    The Secession Convention met in Tallahassee on January 3, 1861, and passed, on January 10, the Ordinance of Secession. The ordinance declared Florida to be "a sovereign and independent nation.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be, free.”

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Gettysburg had the largest number of casualties of any battle in the Civil War, with about 23,000 killed, wounded, and captured or missing on each side. The battle was a defeat for the Confederacy, as it forced Lee to break off his invasion of the North and retreat back into Virginia.

  • Thirteenth Amendment adopted

    Approximately 4 million slaves were freed at the conclusion of the American Civil War. The stories of a few thousand have been passed on to future generations through word of mouth, diaries, letters, records, or written transcripts of interviews.

  • Transcontinental Railroad completed

    President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad and authorized extensive land grants and the issuance of 30-year government bonds to finance the undertaking

  • Yellowstone

    Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, Yellowstone was established in 1872 as the nation’s first national park.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Bell’s deep interest in speech and hearing led him to experiment with the electrical transmission of human speech, the basic technology that underlies the telephone. He went on to found the Bell Telephone Company, to develop other devices for transmitting and recording sound, and to promote the early development of aviation.