Exploring American Histories: Printed Page 283
Exploring American Histories, Value Edition: Printed Page 243
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
1809 | Non-Intercourse Act passed |
1811 | First steamboat travels down the Mississippi to New Orleans |
William Henry Harrison defeats Shawnees at Prophet Town | |
June 1812 | War of 1812 begins |
1814 | Hartford Convention |
March 1814 | Battle of Horseshoe Bend |
August 1814 | British burn Washington City |
December 1814 | Treaty of Ghent |
1815 | Battle of New Orleans |
1817–1818 | Andrew Jackson fights Spanish and Seminole forces in Florida |
1818 | Great Britain and U.S. agree to joint occupation of Oregon Territory |
1819 | Spain cedes Florida to U.S.; establishes boundary between U.S. and Spanish territory through the Adams-Onís Treaty |
Panic of 1819 sparks severe recession that lasts until 1823 | |
1820 | Missouri Compromise |
1821 | White traders begin using Santa Fe Trail |
1822 | Denmark Vesey accused of organizing a slave uprising |
1823 | Monroe Doctrine articulated |
1825 | Erie Canal completed |
1828 | Tariff of 1828 passed |
John Ross elected principal chief of the Cherokee nation | |
1829 | Petticoat Affair |
1830 | Indian Removal Act passed |
1832 | South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification |
1833 | Force Bill passed |