Key Events in US History: 1784-1893
State of Franklin (John Sevier) 1784-1790
Shays’ Rebellion 1786-1787
Federalists:
Favored ratification of the Constitution, a strong central government, and a weaker state government.
North Carolina Ratification Convention (1/2) 1788/1789
Federalist/Democratic:
- Alexander Hamilton 1788 – Federalist Papers
Republican:
- Thomas Jefferson 1790 – American political party
Dismal Swamp Canal
1859 – Important route of commerce
Whiskey Rebellion
1791 – Tax protest in the US
Treaty of Greenville/Fallen Timber
1814 – Friendship with Native Americans and the US
Jay Treaty
1794-1795 – Settled issues from the American Revolution between the US and Great Britain
Revolution of 1800
Adams vs. Jefferson
Embargo Act of 1807
War of 1812
US vs. Great Britain (Naval) – Great Britain restricted US trade
Lowell Mill (Girls)
1760-1840 – Textile corporations
Corrupt Bargain
1824 – John Quincy Adams
American Anti-Slavery Society
1833-1870 – Abolitionist society
American Colonization Society
1816-1865 – Transported African Americans back to Africa
William Lloyd Garrison (Liberator)
1831 – Voice of the abolitionist movement
Andrew Jackson
1829-1837 – Created the Democratic Party
Indian Removal Act
1830 – Trail of Tears/Eastern Band of Cherokee
Missouri Compromise
1850 – Pro-slavery vs. anti-slavery (Missouri and Maine)
Nullification Crisis (Tariff of 1828)
1832-33 – Andrew Jackson
Second National Bank
1816-1836 – Debt suffrage
Nat Turner
1831 – Led a slave rebellion (Turner’s Slave Rebellion)
David Walker
1829 – An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Charles Grandison Finney
1825/1835 – Second Great Awakening (Father of Modern Revivalism)
American Bible Society (Benevolent Society)
1816 – Worked to end slavery
Internal Slave Trade
1789-1849
Thomas Ruffin
1830 – State v. Mann – Slaveowners’ authority
Harriet Jacobs
1861 – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Female struggle
Whig Party (Henry Clay and William Alexander Graham (NC))
19th Century – Modernization
North Carolina Railroad
1858 – Connected the eastern part of the state with the Piedmont
Seneca Falls Convention
1848 – First women’s rights convention
Know-Nothing (American Party)
1840-1850 – Opposed immigrants and Catholics
Mexican War (Texas Independence)
1846-1847
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Stephen Douglas)
1854 – Decision on free or slave state status
Republican Party
1854 – Conservatism, free-market capitalism
General Robert E. Lee
1861-1865 – Confederate
Forts Henry and Donelson
1862 – Grant ensured Kentucky stayed in the Union
Antietam
1862 – First battle of the American Civil War fought on Union soil
Gettysburg
1863 – Largest number of deaths, considered the “turning point” of the war
Abraham Galloway
Slave rebel, abolitionist, Union spy, first black man elected to the legislature
Fort Fisher
1863 – Confederate fort that protected trade routes
Election of 1864 (Copperheads)
Lincoln vs. McClellan
March to the Sea
1864 – Disrupted the Confederate economy
Special Field Order 15
1865 – Orders issued by Sherman
Bentonville
1836 – Trail of Tears
Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction
Jackson ignored reports on the treatment of African Americans
Republicans Passed
14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction Act, Freedmen’s Bureau
Lost Cause
1894 – United Daughters of the Confederacy
Wyatt Outlaw
1820-1870 – Lynched by the KKK
Border States
1860 – Slave states that did not secede from the Union
John Brown
1856 – Abolitionist (white) who believed in armed insurrection
North Carolina Freedmen’s Convention
1865 – Voiced the concerns of North Carolina African Americans
Appomattox
1865 – Largest Confederate surrender, ending the American Civil War
New York City Draft Riots
1863 – Violent disturbances related to drafting men for the American Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
1863 – Freed slaves and accepted African Americans into the Union Army
Beaufort
1861-1893 – First deep South community used as a test case for freedmen’s education
First Manassas
1861 – First Battle of Bull Run, major battle, Union retreat (Stonewall)
Stonewall Jackson
1862 – Confederate general
Fort Sumter
1861 – Start of the American Civil War
Contraband
American Civil War – Confederates owned slaves who sought refuge from the Union
Thomas Clingman
1848-1861 – “Prince of Politicians”, Democratic member
Dred Scott Decision
1857 – Determined freedom based on location
John Tyler
1840 – 10th President, worked to strengthen and preserve the Union
Election of 1860
Debate over slavery expansion and rights
Compromise of 1850
Five bills – Popular sovereignty
Francis Bumpass
Teacher, church worker – Women’s empowerment
Anne Beale Davis
Women’s empowerment