The document summarizes key events in the United States between 1816-1825, including the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States, James Monroe's election as president, the Missouri Compromise which admitted Missouri as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30', Spain ceding Florida to the United States, the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine, and the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.
The document summarizes key events in the United States between 1816-1825, including the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States, James Monroe's election as president, the Missouri Compromise which admitted Missouri as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30', Spain ceding Florida to the United States, the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine, and the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.
The document summarizes key events in the United States between 1816-1825, including the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States, James Monroe's election as president, the Missouri Compromise which admitted Missouri as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30', Spain ceding Florida to the United States, the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine, and the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.
The document summarizes key events in the United States between 1816-1825, including the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States, James Monroe's election as president, the Missouri Compromise which admitted Missouri as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30', Spain ceding Florida to the United States, the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine, and the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.
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1816: Tariff of 1816 Bank of the United
States created James Monroe elected
president. Military expansion Enlargement of West Point Military Academy and standing army of 10,000; enlarged navy.
1818: Treaty of 1818 establishes fixed
1820: Missouri Compromise
border with Canada Gen. Andrew Jackson
invades Florida. General Jackson and his troops were sent to Florida by Monroe to capture Seminole raiders, which began the first Seminole war. During the war, the U.S. seized most of Spain's important military posts and overthrew the governor of Florida. His actions angered some British and Spanish leaders.
reached Monroe reelected. The
Missouri Compromise was agreed on. The agreement stated that Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state while Maine joined as a free state. It also declared that slavery was prohibited north of the 3630' line. James Monroe was reelected for president. The Adams-Ons Treaty of 1819 was signed, it was agreed that Spain gave Florida to the United States. In return the U.S. gave up its claim on Texas and took up the responsibility for $5 million of U.S. citizens' claims against Spain.
1824: Russo-American Treaty of
1824 Supreme Court issues Gibbons v. Ogden ruling. Sectional differences had split the Republican Party into factions of North, South, and West.
1817: James Monroe takes office in the white
house, becoming the fifth president of the United States. The governor of New York DeWitt Clinton urged the state of New York to build a Canal with connecting bridge from Lake Erie, to Albany, on the Hudson River. This project was known as the "Erie Canal".
1821: Supreme Court
issues Cohens v. Virginia ruling
1825: Erie Canal
1819: Panic of 1819 Spain cedes Florida to the United States House passes Tallmadge Amendment McCulloch v. Maryland and Dartmouth College v. Woodward cases. The Monroe Doctrine was issued which states that no European power shall interfere with U.S. and that the United States shall not interfere with Europe either. Sections of US were pulling apart due to westward expansion, rise of King Cotton in south, economic depression. (Sectional rivalry led to Civil War after forty years.)
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