TIMELINE

1810s
  • States expand white male voting rights

  • Martin Van Buren creates disciplined party in New York

1825
  • House of Representatives selects John Quincy Adams as president

  • Adams endorses Henry Clay’s American System

1828
  • Working Men’s Parties win support

  • Tariff of Abominations raises duties

  • Andrew Jackson elected president

  • John C. Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition and Protest

1830
  • Jackson vetoes National Road bill

  • Congress enacts Jackson’s Indian Removal Act

1831
  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia denies Indians’ independence, but Worcester v. Georgia (1832) upholds their political autonomy

1832
  • Massacre of 850 Sauk and Fox warriors at Bad Axe

  • Jackson vetoes renewal of Second Bank

  • South Carolina adopts Ordinance of Nullification

1833
  • Congress enacts compromise tariff

1834
  • Whig Party formed by Clay, Calhoun, and Daniel Webster

1835
  • Roger Taney named Supreme Court chief justice

1836
  • Van Buren elected president

1837
  • Charles River Bridge case weakens chartered monopolies

  • Panic of 1837 derails economy and labor movement

1838
  • Many Cherokees die in Trail of Tears march to Indian Territory

1839–1843
  • Defaults on bonds by state governments spark international financial crisis and depression

1840
  • Whigs win “log cabin campaign”

1841
  • John Tyler succeeds William Henry Harrison as president