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Great Events from History: American History, 1775-1850—Forging a New Nation

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Complete Table of Contents


THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION


Battle of Lexington and Concord


Other Revolutionary War Battles


Second Continental Congress


Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation


The Prohibitory Act


Thomas Paine: Common Sense


British Troops Evacuate Boston


Lee Resolution


Declaration of Independence


Staten Island Peace Conference


Execution of Nathan Hale


Washington Crosses the Delaware


Battles of Saratoga


Battle of Oriskany Creek


Congress Specifies the Design of the U.S. Flag


Winter Encampment of the Continental Army under General Washington


Carlisle Peace Commission


Engagement between the USS Bonhomme Richard and the HMS Serapis


Defection of Benedict Arnold


Pennsylvania Line Mutiny


Battle of the Chesapeake


Captain John “Jack” Jouett’s Ride


Siege of Yorktown and British Surrender


Treaty of Paris


BIRTH OF A NEW NATION


Virginia Declaration of Rights


First Virginia Constitution


Congress Accepts the Articles of Confederation


Constitution of Massachusetts


The Articles of Confederation


Newburgh Conspiracy


Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom


Annapolis Convention


Shays’ Rebellion


Constitutional Convention


Federalist Papers


Ratification of the Constitution


Delaware: First State to Ratify the Constitution


Rhode Island Referendum on the Constitution


New York Ratifies the Constitution


Presidential Electors Cast Ballots Electing Washington President


Origins of the U.S. Cabinet Departments


Federal Judiciary Act


Ratification of the Bill of Rights


Fries’s Rebellion


THE NATION’S EXPANSION


Land Act of 1785


Northwest Ordinance


Bank of the United States Chartered


Yazoo Land Fraud Case and Fletcher v. Peck


Chief Justice John Marshall Ruling in Marbury v. Madison


Second Bank of the United States Is Chartered


Financial Panic of 1819


Panic of 1837


California Gold Rush


RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN NATIONS


Treaty of Amity and Commerce


Old China Trade


Jay-Gardoqui Treaty


Citizen Genêt Affair (French Neutrality Crisis)


Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality


Jay’s Treaty


Pinckney’s Treaty (Treaty of San Lorenzo)


XYZ Affair


Alien and Sedition Acts


Quasi-War with France


Barbary Wars


Chesapeake-Leopard Affair


Adams-Onís Treaty


Monroe Doctrine


Caroline Affair


Webster-Ashburton Treaty


Oregon Treaty with Great Britain


Bear Flag Revolt


Mexican-American War


Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo


WAR AGAIN WITH BRITAIN — THE WAR OF 1812


Western “War Hawks” Elected to Congress


Little Belt Affair


War of 1812


U.S. Naval Victories


“Don’t Give Up the Ship!”


Battle of Lake Erie: “We have met the enemy and they are ours!”


Battle of Lake Champlain (Battle of Plattsburgh)


Burning of Washington, D.C., by the British


Bombardment of Fort McHenry: Composition of “The Star-Spangled Banner”


Hartford Convention


Treaty of Ghent


Battle of New Orleans


THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND ABOLITION


The Quock Walker Cases


New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves


Fugitive Slave Act of 1793


Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves


Peter Williams, Jr.’s “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”


American Colonization Society


Missouri Compromise


Benjamin Lundy’s Genius of Universal Emancipation Begins Publication


Denmark Vesey Revolt


Underground Railroad


William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator Begins Publication


Nat Turner’s Slave Insurrection


American Anti-Slavery Society


Theodore Weld and Angelina Grimké: Slavery As It Is


United States v. Amistad


Wilmot Proviso


Frederick Douglass: The North Star


Free Soil Party


John C. Calhoun’s “Southern Address”


Harriet Tubman Escapes to Freedom


Compromise of 1850


Fugitive Slave Act


Volume 2



Complete Table of Contents


RELATIONS WITH NATIVE AMERICANS


Cherokee War


Chickamauga Wars


Indian Delegation Meets with Congress


Fort Stanwix Treaty


Battle of Fallen Timbers


Treaty of Fort Greenville


Code of Handsome Lake


Battle of Tippecanoe


Treaty of Horseshoe Bend


Seminole Wars


Indian Removal Act


Black Hawk War


Apache Wars


MANIFEST DESTINY


Third Treaty of San Ildefonso


Louisiana Purchase


Lewis and Clark Expedition


Republic of West Florida


Texas Incorporated as a Mexican State


Village of Chicago Organized


Texas Declares Independence from Mexico


Siege of the Alamo


Battle of San Jacinto


Republic of Texas Annexed by United States


Manifest Destiny


United States Occupies California and the Southwest


Taos Rebellion


A NEW CULTURE FLOURISHES


Noah Webster: American Spelling Book (The “Blue Back” Speller)


First American Novel, William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy


Newspaper Wars (National Gazette vs. Gazette of the United States)


Second Great Awakening


Portraitist Gilbert Stuart’s Return to the United States


Library of Congress Created


The “Inchiquin” Episode


Era of Good Feelings: Controlling the Americas


Unitarian Church Is Founded


Washington Irving: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”


“A Visit from St. Nicholas” (‘Twas the Night Before Christmas")


James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Tales


First Engravings of James Audubon’s The Birds of America Published


Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) Established


Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America


Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature


Transcendental Club Established


Brook Farm


Stephen Foster Composes Parlor and Minstrel Music


Smithsonian Institution Founded


Seneca Falls Convention


Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman to Receive Medical Degree


Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience”


AMERICAN ENTERPRISE


Slater’s Spinning Mill


Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike


Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin


Maiden Voyage of the Clermont (North River Steamboat)


Cumberland Road (National Road) Constructed


Erie Canal Built


Savannah Crosses the Atlantic


First U.S. Railroads Constructed


Samuel Colt Patents the Revolver


John Deere’s Self-Scouring Steel Plow


First Successful Telegraph Demonstrated by Samuel Morse


McCormick Reaper Begins Production


THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TRIUMPHS AND STRUGGLES


Democratic-Republican Party Formed


Democratic-Republican Societies Formed


Whiskey Rebellion


Washington’s Farewell Address


John Adams Elected President


Burr-Hamilton Duel


Burr Conspiracy


James Madison Elected President


McCulloch v. Maryland


John Quincy Adams Elected President by House of Representatives


Andrew Jackson Elected President


South Carolina: Ordinance of Nullification


U.S. Whig Party Formed


Martin Van Buren Elected President


William Henry Harrison Elected President


John Tyler Succeeds to the Presidency


Dorr’s Rebellion in Rhode Island


James Polk Elected President


Zachary Taylor Elected President


Birth of the Republican Party


Primary Documents


Alphabetical List of Events


American History Chronology/Timeline


Geographical Index


Key Figures Index