TIMELINE

1784–1789

  • Contested Indian treaties: Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785), Fort Finney (1786), and Fort Harmar (1789)

1789–1799

  • French Revolution

1789

  • Judiciary Act establishes federal courts

1790

  • Hamilton’s public credit system approved

1790–1791

  • Western Confederacy defeats U.S. armies

1791–1803

  • Haitian Revolution

1791

  • Bill of Rights ratified

  • Bank of the United States chartered

1792

  • Kentucky joins Union

1793

  • War between Britain and France

1794

  • Madison and Jefferson found Republican Party

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Battle of Fallen Timbers

1795

  • Jay’s Treaty with Great Britain

  • Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain

  • Treaty of Greenville accepts Indian land rights

1798

  • XYZ Affair

  • Alien, Sedition, and Naturalization Acts

  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

1800

  • Jefferson elected president

1801–1812

  • Gallatin reduces national debt

1803

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Marbury v. Madison asserts judicial review

1804–1806

  • Lewis and Clark explore West

1807

  • Embargo Act cripples American shipping

1808

  • Madison elected president

1809

  • Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa revive Western Confederacy

1812–1815

  • War of 1812

1817–1825

  • Era of Good Feeling

1819

  • Adams-Onís Treaty

  • McCulloch v. Maryland; Dartmouth College v. Woodward