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| Louisiana Purchase of territory by America under Thomas Jefferson from France under Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| Battle of New Orleans between Britain and America |
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| Treaty of Ghent between America and Britain and Hartford Convention |
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| founding of American Colonization Society including Henry Clay and James Madison |
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| Samuel Slater's first factory in Providence, Rhode Island with Moses Brown |
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| Francis Cabot Lowell's first factory in Lowell, Massachusetts for which he recruited young, single farm girls |
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| Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin and early slave law |
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| first national bank founded by Alexander Hamilton |
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| second national bank created after the financial inefficiency of the War of 1812 |
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| economic panic blamed on Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson |
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| Tariff of Abominations passed and first election of Andrew Jackson |
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| Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act |
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| Major Ridge and John and Elias Boudinot signed the Treaty of Echota with the American government and Mexico decided to outlaw slavery in the Texan region |
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| 4,000 of 17,000 travelling Cherokees died along the Trail of Tears to current Oklahoma |
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| Second Party System ruled American politics |
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| William Lloyd Garrison founded the "Liberator", an abolitionist newspaper and Nat Turner had a revolt |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott hosted the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights activists |
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| slaves escaped using the Underground Railroad |
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| Republic of Texas claimed independence |
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act passed to establish territories for railroad construction |
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| South Carolina seceded from the Union |
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| Major Robert Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter to the Confederacy |
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| 4,800 Americans died at the Battle of Antietam and 3,000 of the 18,500 wounded died later on |
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| Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the Civil War |
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| 250 Americans and 1500 Mexicans died in the Battle of the Alamo |
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| Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto, ending the Mexican-American War |
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