Time Line 1793-1860

1793 Cotton Gin Eli Whitney

1800 Thomas Jefferson
1808 James Madison
Congress Outlaws Slave Trade
1816 James Monroe
1817 American Colonization Society Transport blacks back to Africa
1820 Missouri Compromise 36˚30' above free, below slave
1822 Vesey Slave Rebellion
Republic of Liberia Amer. Colo. Society wants to send blacks
1824 John Quincy Adams
1828 Andrew Jackson
1831 Nat Turner Rebellion Black priest, VA
The Liberator William Loyd Garrison
1833 American Anti-Slavery Society
1836 Gag Resolution Limits discussion or consideration of topic
1836 Martin Van Buren
1837 Lovejoy Killed Printing press destroyed, abolistionist
1839 American Slavery As It Is Theodore Dwight Weld
1840 William Henry Harrison
1841 John Tyler
1842 Aroostook War Maine Boundary Dispute
Webster-Ashburton Treaty Halifax Quebec Route to Brit, Territory to US
1844 James Polk
1845 Annexation of Texas
Joint Resolution Texas invited to Union
Narative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass Fredrick Douglass
1846 Walker Tarriff Lowers by tariff by 7%
Conquering of Mexico Kearny = Santa Fe, Fremont = California
Wilmot Proviso Mex Territory free or slave? Ultimatley failed.
Start Mexican War
1848 End Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago Mexico sells US sw territories, rights and religions
protected
1848 Zachary Taylor
1849 California Gold Rush Causes inflation, Panic of '57
1850 Millard Filmore
Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay, California = Free, Mex Cess = New
Mexico and Utah
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852 Franklin Pierce
1853 Gadsden Purchase
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas and Nebraska come to Union under
popular soverinty
Ostend Manifesto Southerners meet w/ Spanish, discuss slave
territory
1856 “Bleeding Kansas” John Brown
1856 James Buchanan
Republican Party Forms
Brooks-Sumner Affair Sumner = Abolitionist, Brooks beats him
1857 Dred Scott Supreme court over rules
1858 Lecompten Constitution Kansas = constitution w/ or w/o slavery
Lincoln-Douglass Debate 7 debates for Senate seat, Douglass wins
Freeport Doctrine Douglass answer, against Supreme Court
1859 Harper's Ferry Raid Attemped slave rebellion, John Brown
1860 Abraham Lincoln

Presidents
1789 George Washington (none) 1828 Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
1792 George Washington (none) 1832 Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
1796 John Adams (Federalist) 1836 Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1800 Thomas Jefferson (D-R) 1840 William Henry Harrison (Whig) – Tyler '41
1804 Thomas Jefferson (D-R) 1844 James Polk (Democratic)
1808 James Madison (D-R) 1848 Zachary Taylor (Whig) - Fillmore '50
1812 James Madison (D-R) 1852 Franklin Pierce (Democratic)
1816 James Monroe (D-R) 1856 James Buchanan (Democratic)
1820 James Monroe (D-R) 1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rebublican)
1824 John Quincy Adams (D-R)