Key Dates and Events for Era 4

Question 1

In what year did Thomas Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 1

1803

Question 2

In what year was the Supreme Court Case “Marbury v. Madison?”

Answer 2

1803

Question 3

When was Thomas Jefferson reelected?

Answer 3

1804

Question 4

When was the “Chesapeake-Leopard Affair?”

Answer 4

1807

Question 5

When was the Embargo Act put into place?

Answer 5

1807

Question 6

In what year was James Madison elected?

Answer 6

1808

Question 7

When was the Supreme Court case “Fletcher v. Peck?”

Answer 7

1810

Question 8

When was the Battle of Tippecanoe?

Answer 8

1811

Question 9

When did the War of 1812 begin?

Also known as Mr. Madison’s War.

Answer 9

1812

Question 10

In what year did British forces burn Washington D.C.?

Answer 10

1814

Question 11

When was the Hartford Convention?

This was a response to the War of 1812, as well as James Madison’s policies.

Answer 11

1814

Question 12

When was the Treaty of Ghent signed?

This ended the War of 1812.

Answer 12

1814

Question 13

When was the Battle of New Orleans?

Answer 13

1815

Question 14

When was James Monroe Elected?

Answer 14

1816

Question 15

When was the Second Bank of the U.S. chartered?

Answer 15

1816

Question 16

When did the construction of the Erie Canal begin?

Answer 16

1817

Question 17

In what year was the economic panic during this period?

Answer 17

1819

Question 18

When was the Supreme Court Case “Dartmouth v. Woodward?”

Answer 18

1819

Question 19

When was the Supreme Court case “McCulloch v. Maryland?”

Answer 19

1819

Question 20

When was the Missouri Compromise established?

Answer 20

1820

Question 21

In what year was Monroe reelected?

Answer 21

1820

Question 22

When did the Lowell factories open?

Answer 22

1821

Question 23

When was the Supreme Court case “Cohens v. Virginia?”

Answer 23

1821

Question 24

When did Stephen Austin establish the first settlement in Texas?

Answer 24

1822

Question 25

When was the Supreme Court case "Gibbons v. Ogden?"

Answer 25

1824

Question 26

When was John Quincy Adams elected?

Answer 26

1824

Question 27

When did the Erie Canal open?

Answer 27

1825

Question 28

When did the public school movement begin in Boston?

Answer 28

1827

Question 29

When was the passage of the "Tariff of Abominations?"

Answer 29

1828

Question 30

When was Andrew Jackson elected?

Answer 30

1828

Question 31

When was "David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" published?

Answer 31

1829

Question 32

In what year was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened?

Answer 32

1830

Question 33

When was the Indian Removal Act passed?

Answer 33

1830

Question 34

When was Mormonism founded?

Answer 34

1830

Question 35

When did William Llyod Garrison begin publishing "The Liberator?"

Answer 35

1831

Question 36

When did the Nullifcation Crisis begin?

Answer 36

1832

Question 37

In what year did Jackson veto the renewal of the Second bank of the U.S.?

Answer 37

1832

Question 38

When was the Supreme Court case "Worcester v. Georgia?"

Answer 38

1832

Question 40

In what year was Jackson reelected?

Answer 40

1832

Question 41

When was the American Anti-Slavery Society founded?

Answer 41

1833

Question 42

When was the Whig party organized?

Answer 42

1834

Question 43

When was the first strike of the Lowell girls?

Answer 43

1834

Question 44

When did Alexis de Tocqueville publish "Democracy in America?"

Answer 44

1835

Question 45

When did Congress pass the "gag rule?"

Answer 45

1836

Question 46

When did Jackson issue the Specie Circular?

Answer 46

1836

Question 47

When was the Battle of the Alamo?

Answer 47

1836

Question 48

When did Texas gain independence?

Answer 48

1836

Question 49

In what year was Elijah Lovejoy murdered by a proslavery mob?

Answer 49

1837

Question 50

When was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 50

1838

Question 51

When was William Henry Harrison elected?

Answer 51

1840

Question 52

When was the Liberty party formed?

Answer 52

1840

Question 53

When did John Tyler assume the presidency after Harrison's death?

Answer 53

1841

Question 54

When was Brook Farm founded?

Answer 54

1841

Question 55

In what year did Dorothea Dix organize a movement for asylum reform?

Answer 55

1843

Question 56

When did Samuel Morse invent the telegraph?

Answer 56

1844

Question 57

When was James Pol elected?

Answer 57

1844

Question 58

When was Texas annexed and made into a state?

Answer 58

1845

Question 59

In what year was the Irish potato famine?

Answer 59

1845

Question 60

When was the Independent Treasury created?

Answer 60

1846

Question 61

When was the dispute over the Oregon territory resolved between the U.S. and Great Britain?

Answer 61

1846

Question 62

In what year did the Mexican War begin?

Answer 62

1846

Question 63

When was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 63

1848

Question 64

When was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed?

Answer 64

1848

Question 65

When was gold found in California?

Answer 65

1848

Question 66

When did Herman Melville write Moby Dick?

Answer 66

1851