States expand white male voting rights

Martin Van Buren creates disciplined party in New York

House of Representatives selects John Quincy Adams as president

Adams endorses Henry Clay’s American System

Working Men’s Parties win support

Tariff of Abominations raises duties

Andrew Jackson elected president

John C. Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Jackson vetoes National Road bill

Congress enacts Jackson’s Indian Removal Act

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia denies Indians’ independence, but Worcester v. Georgia (1832) upholds their political autonomy

Massacre of 850 Sauk and Fox warriors at Bad Axe

Jackson vetoes renewal of Second Bank

South Carolina adopts Ordinance of Nullification

Congress enacts compromise tariff

Whig Party formed by Clay, Calhoun, and Daniel Webster

Roger Taney named Supreme Court chief justice

Van Buren elected president

Charles River Bridge case weakens chartered monopolies

Panic of 1837 derails economy and labor movement

Many Cherokees die in Trail of Tears march to Indian Territory

Defaults on bonds by state governments spark international financial crisis and depression

Whigs win “log cabin campaign”

John Tyler succeeds William Henry Harrison as president