Timeline of United States history (1820-1859)
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This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1820 to 1859.
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1820s
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U.S. territorial extent in 1820
- 1820 - Missouri Compromise
- 1820 - Land Act
- 1820 - Maine becomes a state
- 1821 - Missouri becomes a state
- 1822 - Denmark Vesey executed
- 1822 - Cumberland Road Bill
- 1823 - Monroe Doctrine declared
- 1823 - Treaty with Russia
- 1824 - First presidential nominating political convention
- 1824 - John Quincy Adams defeats Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay in election of 1824; Adams immediately appoints Clay his new Secretary of State, which Jackson calls their "Corrupt Bargain"
- 1824 - Gibbons v. Ogden cements Congressional control over interstate commerce
- 1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President
- 1825 - Erie Canal opened
- 1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on July 4
- 1828 - Tariff of Abominations passed
- 1828 - John C. Calhoun (Jackson's vice-president) anonymously publishes South Carolina Exposition and Protest arguing that states can nullify certain federal laws
- 1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President, appoints his "Kitchen Cabinet"
1830s
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U.S. territorial extent in 1830
- 1830s - Second Great Awakening
- early 1830s-Oregon Trail comes into use
- 1830 - Indian Removal Act
- 1831 - Nat Turner's revolt
- 1831 - The Liberator begins publication
- 1831 - Cyrus McCormick invents the reaper
- 1832 - Worcester v. State of Georgia - U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Cherokees; President Jackson ignores the ruling
- 1832 - Black Hawk War
- 1832 - Tariff of 1832
- 1832 - Ordinance of Nullification passed by South Carolina
- 1832 - Seminole War begins
- 1832 - Department of Indian Affairs established
- 1832 - Jackson re-elected amid struggle with Nicholas Biddle over the fate of the Second Bank of the United States; this struggle leads to the Panic of 1837
- 1833 - Force Bill passed
- 1835 - Texas War for Independence begins
- 1835 - Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America published
- 1836 - Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto
- 1836 - Samuel Colt invents revolver
- 1836 - Gag Rule imposed
- 1836 - Specie Circular issued
- 1836 - Arkansas becomes a state
- 1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President
- 1837 - U.S. recognizes the Republic of Texas
- 1837 - Caroline Affair
- 1837 - Michigan becomes a state
- 1837 - Oberlin College enrolls first female students, first coeducation in United States
- 1837 - Panic of 1837
- 1837 - Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge reverses Dartmouth College v. Woodward; property rights can be overridden by public need
- 1838-1839 - The Trail of Tears
- 1838 - Aroostook War
- 1839 - Amistad case
1840s
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U.S. territorial extent in 1840
- 1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President and dies
- 1841 - John Tyler becomes President
- 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- 1844 - U.S. presidential election, 1844
- 1844 - Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
- 1844 - Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message
- 1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President
- 1845 - Texas Annexation
- 1845 - Florida and Texas become states
- 1846 - Mexican-American War begins
- 1846 - Wilmot Proviso proposed
- 1846 - Walker Tariff Bill
- 1846 - Iowa becomes a state
- 1846 - Polk Doctrine declared
- 1846 - Oregon Treaty signed
- 1847 - Treaty of Cahuenga ended Mexican-American War hostilities in California
- 1848 - Seneca Falls convention
- 1848 - Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill in California
- 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 1848 - Wisconsin becomes a state
- 1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President
1850s
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U.S. territorial extent in 1850
- 1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President
- 1850 - Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
- 1850 - Compromise of 1850 passed
- 1850 - California becomes a state
- 1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President
- 1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan
- 1853 - Gadsden Purchase
- 1853 - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published for the first time
- 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act ushers in "Bleeding Kansas" (1854-1859)
- 1854 - Ostend Manifesto
- 1854 - Convention of Kanagawa
- 1854 - Walker Expedition
- 1856 - Sack of Lawrence, Kansas
- 1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre
- 1856 - Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building
- 1856 - Guano Islands Act
- 1857 - James Buchanan becomes President
- 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393 1857 declares that blacks are not citizens of the United States and cannot sue
- 1857 - LeCompton Constitution rejected in Kansas Territory
- 1857 - Panic of 1857
- 1858 - Transatlantic cable laid
- 1858 - Minnesota becomes a state
- 1858 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- 1858 - U.S. is party to Treaty of Tientsin
- 1859 - Harper's Ferry Raid (John Brown's Raid)
- 1859 - Comstock Lode discovered
- 1859 - Oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania
- 1859 - Oregon becomes a state
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