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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
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

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: The Northwest Ordinance (1787; Chapter 6), Kentucky and Tennessee join the Union (1792, 1796), and Jefferson is elected president (1800). How were developments in the West tied into national politics in the 1790s? Why did the Federalists steadily lose ground to the Republicans?