The Era of the Founding Fathers
| 1780s | 1789 | First Congress convenes in New York. |
| George Washington sworn in as first president. | ||
| Judiciary Act of 1789. | ||
| French Revolution begins. | ||
| 1790s | 1790 | Alexander Hamilton submits his Report on the Public Credit and Report on a National Bank to Congress. |
| Treaty of New York. | ||
| Samuel Slater opens his first Rhode Island mill for the production of cotton yarn. | ||
| 1790s | Methodists and Baptists start to make major strides in converting slaves to Christianity. | |
| 1791 | Bank of the United States is granted a twenty-year charter. | |
| Vermont admitted to the Union. | ||
| Bill of Rights ratified. | ||
| Society for the Encouragement of Useful Manufactures founded. | ||
| Hamilton submits his Report on Manufactures to Congress. | ||
| Samuel Slater builds first U.S. textile factory. | ||
| 1792 | Washington reelected president. | |
| Kentucky admitted to the Union. | ||
| Mary Wollstonecraft, "Vindication of the Rights of Women". | ||
| 1793 | Fugitive Slave Law. | |
| Chisholm v. Georgia. | ||
| Large-scale exodus of French planters from Saint Domingue to the United States. | ||
| France declares war on Britain and Spain. | ||
| Washington's Neutrality Proclamation. | ||
| Citizen Genet arrives in United States. | ||
| Democratic societies established. | ||
| Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. (Whitney's cotton gin transforms southern economy) | ||
| 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. | |
| General Anthony Wayne's forces rout Indians in the Battle of Fallen Timbers. | ||
| Thomas Paine publishes "The Age of Reason". | ||
| 1795 | Treaty of Greenville. | |
| Jay's Treaty with Britain ratified. | ||
| University of North Carolina founded. | ||
| 1796 | Hylton v. United States. | |
| Ware v. Hylton. | ||
| Tennessee admitted to the Union. | ||
| Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney's Treaty) ratified. | ||
| Washington's Farewell Address. | ||
| John Adams elected president. | ||
| 1798 | XYZ Affair. | |
| Alien and Sedition Acts. | ||
| Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution ratified. | ||
| Whitney develops interchangeable parts for muskets. | ||
| 1798-1799 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. | |
| 1798-1800 | United States fights Quasi-War with France. | |
| 1799 | Fries Rebellion in Pennsylvania. | |
| 1800s | 1800 | Thomas Jefferson elected president. |
| Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Virginia. | ||
| Second Great Awakening begins. | ||
| 1800-1801 | Great Kentucky Revival. | |
| John Adams's midnight appointments. | ||
| 1801 | Thomas Jefferson's inauguration. | |
| Judiciary Act of 1801. | ||
| 1801-1805 | Naval war with Tripoli. | |
| 1802 | Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801. | |
| Yazoo land compromise. | ||
| American right of deposit at New Orleans revoked. | ||
| Revised naturalization law. | ||
| 1803 | Marbury v. Madison. | |
| Conclusion of the Louisiana Purchase. | ||
| 1804 | Judge John Pickering convicted by the Senate. | |
| Impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase. | ||
| Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel. | ||
| Jefferson elected to a second term. | ||
| 1804-1806 | Lewis and Clark expedition. | |
| 1805 | Start of the Burr conspiracy. | |
| Chase acquitted by the Senate. | ||
| Essex case. | ||
| Peace treaty with Tripoli. | ||
| 1805-1807 | Pike's explorations. | |
| 1806 | British government issues the first Order in Council. | |
| Napoleon's Berlin Decree. | ||
| Burr treason trial. | ||
| 1807 | Burr acquitted of treason. | |
| Chesapeake Affair. | ||
| Napoleon's Milan Decree. | ||
| Embargo Act passed.(Embargo spurs American manufacturing) | ||
| Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton introduce the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River. | ||
| 1808 | James Madison elected president. | |
| Congress prohibits external slave trade. | ||
| 1809 | Non-Intercourse Act passed; Embargo Act repealed. | |
| 1810s | 1810 | Macon's Bill No. 2 |
| Napoleon supposedly repeals blockade decrees. | ||
| Madison declares boycott of British goods. | ||
| Fletcher v. Peck case. | ||
| 1811 | Battle of Tippecanoe | |
| Construction of the National Road begins at Cumberland, Maryland. | ||
| 1812 | Orders in Council revoked. | |
| United States declares war on Britain. | ||
| Madison reelected to a second term. | ||
| General William Hull surrenders at Detroit. | ||
| USS Constitution defeats HMS Guerrie. | ||
| Battle of Queenston. | ||
| Louisiana, the first state formed out of the Louisiana Purchase, is admitted to the Union. | ||
| 1812-1813 | American invasions of Canada fail. | |
| 1813 | Battle of Lake Erie (Put-in-Bay). | |
| Battle of the Thames. | ||
| Incorporation of the Boston Manufacturing Company. | ||
| 1814 | Battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane. | |
| Battle of Bladensburg. | ||
| British burn Washington, D.C. | ||
| Captain Thomas Macdonough's naval victory at the Battle of Plattsburgh. | ||
| Treaty of Ghent signed. | ||
| Battle of Horseshoe Bend. | ||
| 1814-1815 | Hartford Convention | |
| 1815 | Battle of New Orleans. | |
| North American Review founded. | ||
| 1816 | James Monroe elected president. | |
| Second Bank of the United States chartered. | ||
| Protectionist Tariff of 1816. | ||
| 1816-1819 | Boom in cotton prices stimulates settlement of the Southwest. | |
| 1817 | Rush-Bagot Treaty. | |
| Madison vetoes Calhoun's Bonus Bill. | ||
| American Colonization Society founded. | ||
| Mississippi enters the Union. | ||
| Erie Canal construction begins. | ||
| 1818 | British-American Convention of 1818. | |
| The United States and Britain agree on joint occupation of Oregon for a ten-year period. | ||
| Andrew Jackson invades East Florida. | ||
| 1819 | Transcontinental Treaty. | |
| Panic of 1819 | ||
| Spain cedes Florida to United States | ||
| McCulloch v. Maryland case | ||
| Dartmouth College v. Woodward case | ||
| Economic panic, ushering in four-year depression. | ||
| Alabama enters the Union. | ||
| Jefferson founds University of Virginia. | ||
| 1819-1820 | Missouri Compromise. | |
| 1820s | 1820 | Monroe reelected to a second term. |
| Land Act of 1820 | ||
| Washington Irving, "The Sketch Book". | ||
| 1820s | Expansion of New England textile mills. | |
| 1820-1850 | Growth of female moral-reform societies. | |
| 1821 | Cohens v. Virginia case | |
| Mexico gains independence from Spain. | ||
| Cooper publishes "The Spy", his first successful novel | ||
| Emma Willard establishes Troy (New York) Female Seminary | ||
| 1822 | Denmark Vesey's conspiracy(slave rebellion) is uncovered in Charleston, South Carolina. | |
| Stephen F. Austin founds the first American community in Texas. | ||
| Republic of Liberia established in Africa. | ||
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine.(Secretary Adams proposes Monroe Doctrine) | |
| Philadelphia completes the first urban water supply system. | ||
| Mexico opens Texas to American settlers. | ||
| James Fenimore Cooper, "The Pioneers". | ||
| 1824 | Gibbons v. Ogden. | |
| John Quincy Adams elected president by the House of Representatives.(Lack of electoral majority for presidency) | ||
| Russo-American Treaty of 1824 | ||
| 1824-1825 | Russia abandons its claims to Oregon south of 54｡ 40'. | |
| 1825 | Completion of the Erie Canal. | |
| New Harmony commune established. | ||
| 1826 | American Temperance Society organized. | |
| Josiah Holbrook introduces the idea for lyceums. | ||
| Haden Edwards leads an abortive rebellion against Mexican rule in Texas. | ||
| Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans". | ||
| 1827 | The United States and Britain renew their agreement on joint occupation of Oregon for an indefinite period. |
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