US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum
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1790s Washington & Adams administrations
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National Debt
Whiskey Rebellion 1794
Hamilton "Report on Manufactures"
European wars & domestic U.S. politics
Washington Farewell Address
Adams presidency
Alien & Sedition Acts 1798
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Washington presidency, 1789-1797
click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington expressing his reluctance to become president in 1788, Washington wrote: I should unfeignedly rejoice, in case the Electors, by giving their votes to another person would save me from the dreaded dilemma of being forced to accept or refuse... If that may not be–I am, in the next place, earnestly desirous of searching out the truth, and knowing whether there does not exist a probability that the government would be just as happily and effectually carried into execution without my aid."(First President’s Election Was the Last Thing He Wanted (washingtonpapers.org) Upon election in 1791, Washington wrote that he had give up "all expectations of private happiness in this world." (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/george-washington-the-reluctant-president-49492/ George Washington: The Reluctant President (Smithsonian Magazine)]
** establish precedents for the office of the President, esp. regarding
election of 1789
Bill of Rights adopted 1791 (BOR)
Hamilton-Jefferson split
Residence Act of 1790
Hamilton's 1791 "Report on Manufactures"
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Constitutional interpretations
European conflictsclick EXPAND for list of French Revolution & Napoleonic era wars
European wars & domestic U.S. politics
Citizen Genet affair, 1793
Jay's Treaty (or "Jay Treaty")
"Pinckney's Treaty"
Washington declines to run for a 3rd term
Washington's "Farewell Address"
click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address: The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts(for full text see Washington's Farewell Address (wikisource) John Adams presidency
Quasi-War 1798
XYZ Affair. 1797-98
Alien & Sedition Acts, 1798
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 1798-99
Taxation and Fries's Rebellion, 1799
Washington DC opened as national capital, 1800
Midnight appointments
Leads to the "landmark" case, Marbury v. Madison that established judicial review (see below)
new States in 1790s
Northwest Territories and Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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1800-1810 Jefferson & Madison administrations
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Revolution of 1800
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Revolution of 1800
Jefferson Inaugural Address, 1801
roll-back of Federalist policies
Louisiana Purchase, 1802
Essex Junto
12th Amendment to the Constitution, 1804
European blockades of US ports
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, 1807
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1810s Madison & Monroe administrations
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BIG IDEAS French/ British blockades British impressment of U.S. sailors Indian Wars in Northwest Territories border dispute w/ Canada War of 1812 Monroe & the ""Era of Good Feelings"
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1820s: Monroe & Jackson administrations
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Monroe presidency 1st term
Era of Good Feelings
Monroe Doctrine, 1823
rise of Whig party
Democratic party
SectionalismElection of 1826
Rise of Jackson and "Jacksonian democracy"
Second Great AwakeningSecond Great Awakening - religious revival, esp, Methodist & Baptists - Charles Finney ran religious revivals and promoted reform movements - new religions arose, including Mormons and Shakers, utopians > some preached apocalyptic visions, end of the world, etc. (“repent the end is near!”) - women involved, reform societies, esp against drinking (temperance), gambling & prostitution (vice) and slavery (abolition) - reformers built orphanages, asylums Alexis de Tocqueville * “Democracy in America”> if these people consider themselves each other’s equal, what will they do? - observed how democracies created >> culture of equality >> culture of civic engagement << everyone in a democracy wants to talk politics >> a fluid sociopolitical-economic society Henry Clay's "American system"Promoted by Henry Clay (from Kentucky) roads and canal building new technologies: railroads, telegraph = unifying effect, promotes commerce > allows for more western expansion and integration into national economy - internal improvements = main Whig policy (the American System)
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