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Contents Introduction ONE HUNDRED IMPORTANT EVENTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. HISTORY 1. Election of 1800 2. Barbary Pirate Wars 3. Innovations and Inventions 4. The Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Connection (1802) 5. Robert Fulton and the Steamboat (1803) 6. Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806) 7. Louisiana Purchase (1803) 8. Marbury v. Madison (1803) 9. Fall of Aaron Burr 10. Slave Trade Act (1807) 11. War of 1812 Catalysts 12. John Jacob Astor and the Fur trade (1808) 13. Tecumseh and "The Prophet" (1811) 14. War of 1812 15. Hartford Convention (1814) 16. African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816) 17. Francis Cabot Lowell and Early Industrialization (1815) 18. Erie Canal (1817) 19. Seminole Wars (1817-1858) 20. McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819) 21. Missouri Compromise (1820) 22. Land Act of 1820 23. Survival on the Essex (1820) and Mutiny on the Globe (1824) 24. Santa Fe Trail (1821) 25. American Colonization Society and the Founding of Liberia (1822) 26. Monroe Doctrine (1823) 27. Presidential Election of 1824, "A Corrupt Bargain" 28. New Harmony, Indiana (1825) 29. Jacksonian Democracy and the Spoils System 30. Davy Crockett "Frontier Hero" 31. Abolitionist Movement (1830s) 32. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1830) 33. Indian Removal Act (1830) 34. Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (1831) 35. Nullification Crisis (1832-1833) 36. Democracy in America (1835 & 1840) by Alexis de Tocqueville 37. Revolution in Texas (1835-1836) 38. Samuel Colt and the Revolver (1836) 39. Trail of Tears (1838) 40. Amistad Mutiny (1839) 41. Immigration 1840s 42. Dorr's Rebellion (1842) 43. Samuel F.B. Morse and the Telegraph (1844) 44. Henry David Thoreau and the Transcendentalists (1846) 45. Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 46. Ordeal of the Donner Party (1846-1847) 47. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 48. Mormon Migration to Utah (1846-1847) 49. Seneca Falls Convention (1848) 50. California Gold Rush (1849) 51. Compromise of 1850 52. Underground Railroad (1850s-1860) 53. Rise of Barnum, Burlesque and Vaudeville (1850s-1880s) 54. Know Nothing Party (1854-1856) 55. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) 56. William Walker and Nicaragua (1856-1857) 57. Dred Scott Case (1857) 58. Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) 59. Black Gold in Pennsylvania (1859) 60. John Brown and Harper's Ferry (1859) 61. Lincoln's Election and Succession (1860-1861) 62. Battles of Bull Run (1861 and 1862) 63. Emancipation Proclamation (1862) 64. Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga (1863) 65. War Ends and the Assassination of Lincoln (1865) 66. Reconstruction Amendments (1865-1870) 67. Beginnings of the Ku Klux Klan (1866) 68. Purchase of Alaska (1867) 69. Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (1868) 70. Transcontinental Railroad (1869) 71. Rise of The Robber Barons (1870-1880s) 72. Final Solution for the American Indian 73. Tweed's Ring (1871-1872) 74. Great Chicago Fire (1871) 75. Creation of Yellowstone National Park (1872) 76. Trial of Susan B. Anthony and the Rights of Women ((1873) 77. Red River and the Sioux Wars (1875-1877) 78. Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone (1876) 79. Great Railroad Strike (1877) 80. Inventions of Thomas Edison (1877-1879) 81. Yellow Journalism (1880s-1890s) 82. Assassination of President James A. Garfield (1881) 83. Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881) 84. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 85. First Skyscraper Building (1883) 86. Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) 87. Founding of the American Federation of Labor (1886) 88. Haymarket Square Riot (1886) 89. Oklahoma Land Rush (1889) 90. Nellie Bly, Journalist Extraordinaire 91. New Immigration Wave (1890's) 92. How the Other Half Lives (1890) 93. "Yellow Peril" Campaign Against the Japanese (1892) 94. Turner's Thesis of the American Frontier (1893) 95. Pullman Strike (1894) 96. Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895) 97. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 98. United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) 99. Spanish-American War (1898) 100. Scott Joplin and the American Ragtime Music (1899) Index
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United States -- History -- 19th century -- Chronology.
United States -- History -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
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