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" . . . when one looks for evidence of religious awakening in this period one finds it everywhere: not only in the astonishing variety of religious sects, both imported and native, but also in literature, politics, educational institutions, popular culture, social reforms, dietary reforms, utopian experiments, child-rearing practices, and relationships between the sexes. . . . By the middle of the nineteenth century, an estimated one-third of the population affiliated with organized religion, twice the percentage of 1776 . . . The contrast with Europe, where religious faith declined in the same era, is striking." [Howe: What Hath God Wrought, p. 186] "Many people shared John Quincy Adams's view of America as the country where God would bring His plans for humanity to fulfillment. . . . Some Americans actually hoped to cooperate in hastening the Second Coming of Christ, which would usher in the end of history. . . . The blessed thousand-year epoch has been named the millennium, and Christians identify it with the messianic age of peace and justice foretold by the Jewish prophets." [Howe: What Hath God Wrought, p. 285]
Alexander Hamilton becomes first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Government
1789
George Washington becomes first president of the United States
Government
1789
Thomas Jefferson resigns as Secretary of State
Government
1793
United States and Great Britain sign the Jay Treaty
Peace
1795
George Washington gives his Farewell Address
Government
1796
John Adams becomes second president of the United States
Government
1797
American government moves capital to Washington, D.C.
Geography
1800
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of the United States
Government
1801
Lewis and Clark expedition opens way to conquest of the West
Discovery
1805
James Madison becomes the fourth president of the United States
Government
1809
Harrison and Indiana militia defeat Indians at Battle of Prophetstown (Tippecanoe)
War
1811
Andrew Jackson has gunfight with Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton
Culture
1813
Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in duel
Culture
1814
End of serious military power of Americans Indians in pre-Civil War United States
War
1814
James Monroe becomes the fifth president of the United States
Government
1817
Andrew Jackson proclaims provisional government to citizens of Pensacola
War
1818
State of Connecticut disestablishes religion
Religion
1818
John Quincy Adams supports Andrew Jackson in his invasion of Spanish Florida
Government
1818
U.K. and U.S. agree to U.S. boundaries in Anglo-American Convention of 1818
Geography
1818
"The Panic of 1819" hits the U.S. as the first boom-and-bust of capitalism
Trade
1819
Treaty of Doak's Stand
Geography
1820
Adams-Onis Treaty
Geography
1821
Monroe Doctrine warns European nations not to extend powers into Americas
Government
1823
John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth president of the United States
Government
1825
Cherokee Nation adopts written constitution but no help against Indian Removal
Government
1827
Sunday schools and primary schools prepares citizens for Second Coming
Education
1827
Andrew Jackson begins "Bank War"
Trade
1829
Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory," becomes the seventh president of the United States
Government
1829
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints established by Joseph Smith
Religion
1830
William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of the Liberator
Human Rights
1831
Whig Party forms in opposition to policies of Andrew Jackson
Government
1834
Cherokees sign Treaty of New Echota
Human Rights
1835
Finney goes to Ohio to teach theology at the newly founded Oberlin College
Religion
1835
Mexican army & Santa Anna defeats Texans at the Alamo (Feb. 23-March 6, 1836)
War
1836
Emerson formulates the philosophy of transcendentalism in his essay "Nature"
Philosophy
1836
Formation of Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati--becomes multinational corporation
Trade
1837
Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth president of the United States
Government
1837
Cotton constitutes 59 percent of U.S. exports
Trade
1840
Sojourner Truth warns of the Second Coming of Christ
Religion
1843
William Miller and his followers expect the return of Christ
Religion
1844
"Manifest Destiny" first used in one of America's most popular magazines
Geography
1845
Texas becomes the twenty-eighth state
Government
1846
Brigham Young and the Mormons found Salt Lake City
Religion
1847
California gold rush begins & population grows from 14,000 to 380,000 in 10 years
Geography
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: US annexes more than 1/2 of Mexico
Geography
1848