1801-1901 Timeline

1801
- Judiciary Act of 1801

1801 - 1805
- Naval War with Tripoli

1802
- Naturalization law
- Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed
- West Point founded

1803
- Marbury v. Madison
- Lousiana Purchase

1804
- Alexander Hamilton killed in duel by Aaron Burr

1805
- Peace Treaty from Tripoli

1806
- Aaron Burr arrested for treason

1806 - 1807
- Lewis and Clark expedition 1807
- United States Frigate Chesapeake overhauled by British Frigate
- Embargo Act 1808
- Legal importation of slaves ended

1809
- March 1 - Embargo Act repealed
- Non-Intercourse Act James Madison

1809
- Macon's Bill No. 2

1810
- War of 1812

1811
- America takes control of Great Lakes -

1812
- Treaty of Ghent

1814 - 1815
- December 15 - January 5 - Hartford Convention

1813 - 1814
- Congress voted to revive Bank of the United States - Tariff of

1816 - 1817
- Rush-Bagot agreement James Monroe

1818
- Treaty of 1818

1819
- McCulloch v. Maryland

1820
- Revised Land Act passed
- Missouri Compromise

1821
- Monroe Doctrine

1822 - 1824
- Russo
- American Treaty John Quincy Adams

1828
- Tariff of 1828 ("Tariff of Abominations") Andrew Jackson

1830 - Eaton affair
- Nat Turner's rebellion

1833 1832
- Tariff of 1832

1836
- Bureau of Indian Affairs established
- Texans declared independence
- Bank of the United States expires

1840
- Treasury Bill passed by Congress
- Independent Treasury established

1842
- Tariff of 1842
- Webster-Ashburton treaty

1845
- Texas annexed
- Manifest Destiny

1846
- The Walker tariff of

1846
- Wilmot Proviso

1847 1848
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Gold discovered in California 1849
- California drafts a consitution
- California gold rush Zachary Taylor

1849 - 1850
1850
- Compromise of 1850
- Clay-Bulwer Treaty
- Fugitive Slave Law Millard Fillmore

1850 - 1853
1851 - Maine Law
1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin published Franklin Pierce

1853 - 1857
1853
- Gadsden Purchase

1854
- Ostend Manifesto
- Kansas-Nebraska Act

1856 1857
- March 6
- Dred Scott decision

1857 - 1861
1858 1859
- October
- John Brown seizes firearms from Harpers Ferry

1860
- Pony Express established
- Homestead act passed
- South Carolina secedes from Union
- Crittenden Compromise fails Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 1861
- Confederate States of America Formed
- Trent Affair
- Morrill Tariff Act

1862
- Homstead act of 1862

1863
- January 1
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Lincoln proclaims "10 percent" reconstruction plan

1864
- Lee cornered at Appomattox Court House
- April 14 - Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theater Andrew Jackson

1865 - 1869
1865
- Southern States pass Black Codes

1866
- Permanent transatlantic cable established
- Civil Rights Bill passed 1867
- March 2 - Military Reconstruction Act
- United States buys Alaska for $7.2 million
- Ulysses S. Grant 1869 -

1877 1875
- Whiskey Ring robs Treasury of millions in excise
-tax
- Resumption Act of 1875
- Civil Rights Act

1876 1877
- Military Reconstruction ends
- Compromise of 1877

1877 - 1881
1877
- Nez Perce Indian War 1879 Chester A. Arthur

1881 - 1885
1881 1882
- First immigration
-restriction laws passed 1883
- Pendleton Act Grover Cleveland

1885 - 1889
1886 - Statue of Liberty erected in New York harbor 1887
- Interstate Commerce Act Benjamin Harrison

1889 - 1893
1890 - Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Sherman Silver Purchase Act
- McKinley Tariff Bill Grover Cleveland

1893 - 1897
1894 - Pullman strike 1895
- Supreme Court declares income tax unconstitutional 1896
- Plessy v. Ferguson 1897
- Library of Congress opens William McKinley 1897

- 1901 1898
- Spanish
- American War
- Boxer Rebellion and US Expedition to China