Kansas-Nebraska act passes, repealing the Missouri Compromise
1854
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
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
Roger Taney is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1836
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 Hawaii
1898
Panic of 1893
1893
Louisiana Purchase: the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of the French territory Louisiane
1803
Compromise of 1850, which, among other things, admits California as a free state
1850
Fifteenth Amendment gives slaves the right to vote
February 1870
American Civil War
1861-1865
Annexation of the Republic of Texas
1845
Interstate Commerce Commission is created primarily to regulate the railroads
1887
Gold Standard Act stops bimetallism
1900
Missouri Compromise: Missouri is admitted as a slave state, but slavery is otherwise prohibited north of the 36°30' north parallel
1820
Philippine-American War results from the First Philippine Republic struggle against United States annexation of the islands
1899-1902
Standard Oil Trust is formed
1882
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Emancipation Proclamation: declared slaves not in states controlled by the Union to be free
1862 and 1863
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
Dred Scott v. Sandford - Supreme Court rules that slaves cannot be citizens and are not protected by the Constitution
1857
Pendleton Act creates a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis
1883
War of 1812: war between the United States and the British
1812-1815
Fourteenth Amendment makes slaves citizens
July 1868
Spanish-American war fought over the issues of the liberation of Cuba
April-August 1898
Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery
December 1865
Slaves rebel against their captors on the Spanish schooner Amistad
1839
Compromise of 1877 effectively ends Reconstruction
1877
Maine admitted as a free state
1820
Panic of 1873
1873
The Whiskey Rebellion: a popular uprising that resulted from his decision to tax whiskey to pay off the national debt.
1791-1794
Bland-Allison act remonetizes silver
1878
Mexican-American war: the Mexican response to the annexation of Texas by the United States
1846-1848
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890
Coinage Act of 1873 demonitizes silver and embraces the gold standard
1873
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