Lewis and Clark expedition: headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
1803-1806
Spanish-American war fought over the issues of the liberation of Cuba
April-August 1898
Maine admitted as a free state
1820
Compromise of 1877 effectively ends Reconstruction
1877
Annexation of Hawaii
1898
Kansas-Nebraska act passes, repealing the Missouri Compromise
1854
War of 1812: war between the United States and the British
1812-1815
XYZ affair: a domestic scandal where the French demanded enormous concessions from the United States as a condition for continuing bilateral peace negotiations during the Quasi-war
March of 1797 to 1800
Annexation of the Republic of Texas
1845
Emancipation Proclamation: declared slaves not in states controlled by the Union to be free
1862 and 1863
Interstate Commerce Commission is created primarily to regulate the railroads
1887
Fourteenth Amendment makes slaves citizens
July 1868
Panic of 1873
1873
Slaves rebel against their captors on the Spanish schooner Amistad
1839
Roger Taney is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1836
Gold Standard Act stops bimetallism
1900
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890
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President
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Panic of 1893
1893
Mexican-American war: the Mexican response to the annexation of Texas by the United States
1846-1848
Louisiana Purchase: the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of the French territory Louisiane
1803
Nullification Crisis: a sectional crisis created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the state of South Carolina to nullify a federal law passed by the United States C
1828-1832
Compromise of 1850, which, among other things, admits California as a free state
1850
American Civil War
1861-1865
Philippine-American War results from the First Philippine Republic struggle against United States annexation of the islands
1899-1902
Dred Scott v. Sandford - Supreme Court rules that slaves cannot be citizens and are not protected by the Constitution
1857
Coinage Act of 1873 demonitizes silver and embraces the gold standard
1873
The Whiskey Rebellion: a popular uprising that resulted from his decision to tax whiskey to pay off the national debt.
1791-1794
Fifteenth Amendment gives slaves the right to vote
February 1870
Pendleton Act creates a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis
1883
Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery
December 1865
Standard Oil Trust is formed
1882
Nat Turner slave rebellion
1831
Alien and Sedition Acts: allegedly passed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government
1798
Missouri Compromise: Missouri is admitted as a slave state, but slavery is otherwise prohibited north of the 36°30' north parallel
1820
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