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
- 1820 - New England Textile mills expanded
- 1820 - Maine becomes a state
- 1821 - Missouri becomes a state
- 1824 - Gibbons v. Ogden affirms federal over state authority in interstate commerce
- 1825 - Erie Canal completed
- 1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes the President
- 1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes the President
1830s
- 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
- 1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President and dies
- 1841 - John Tyler becomes President
- 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- 1844 - U.S. presidential election, 1844
- 1844 - Oregon boundary dispute intensifies
- 1844 - Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message
- 1845 - James K. 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
- 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
- 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act; nullified Missouri Compromise
- 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
- 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 - Darwin's Origin of Species published
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