Timeline of United States history (1790-1819)

The cotton gin, the device which made slavery profitable and set the stage for all that came later

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1790 to 1819.

Table of contents

1 1790s 2 1800s 3 1810s

1790s

• 1790 - Rhode Island becomes a state
• 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified
• 1791 - First Bank of the United States chartered
• 1791 - Vermont, formerly part of New York, becomes the 14th state
• 1792 - Kentucky, formerly part of Virginia, becomes the 15th state
• 1793 - Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
• 1793 - Fugitive Slave Act passed
• 1793 - Chisholm v. Georgia 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of 11th Amendment
• 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
• 1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers
• 1795 - Jay Treaty
• 1795 - 11th Amendment
• 1796 - Tennessee, formerly part of North Carolina, becomes a state
• 1796 - Pinckney's Treaty
• 1797 - John Adams (Federalist) inaugurated, Jefferson (Republican) Vice-President
• 1797 - XYZ Affair
• 1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts
• 1798 - Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• 1798 - Eleventh Amendment passed
• 1799 - George Washington dies
• 1799 - Fries Uprising
• 1799 - Logan Act

• 1800 - Convention of 1800
• 1800 - Library of Congress founded
• 1801 - Thomas Jefferson becomes President
• 1803 - Marbury v. Madison 5 US 137 1803 allows U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by Congress for first time, the Judiciary Act of 1789

The Louisiana territory was purchased for $15 million

• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase Treaty
• 1803 - Ohio becomes a state
• 1804 - 12th Amendment
• 1804 - Essex Junto
• 1804 - New Jersey abolishes slavery
• 1804 - Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel
• 1804 - Lewis and Clark set out
• 1805 - Barbary War: Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli
• 1806 - Noah Webster's first dictionary
• 1806 - Cumberland Road passed
• 1807 - Embargo Act
• 1807 - USS Leopard sunk by the British
• 1807 - Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
• 1807 - Robert Fulton invents steamboat
• 1808 - U.S. slave trade with Africa ends
• 1809 - James Madison becomes President
• 1809 - Non-Intercourse Act

• 1810 - Macon's Bill Number 2
• 1810 - Fletcher v. Peck 10 US 87 1810 marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates state legislative act
• 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
• 1811 - First Bank of the United States expires
• 1812 - War of 1812 begins
• 1812 - Daniel Webster elected to Congress
• 1812 - Louisiana becomes a state
• 1814 - Treaty of Fort Jackson ends Creek War
• 1814 - Treaty of Ghent settles War of 1812
• 1814 - Hartford Convention
• 1816 - Second Bank of the United States chartered
• 1816 - Martin v. Hunter's Lessee 14 US 304 1816 establishes U.S. Supreme Court's power to review state court decisions
• 1816 - Indiana becomes a state
• 1817 - James Monroe becomes President
• 1817 - Rush-Bagot Treaty
• 1817 - Harvard Law School founded
• 1817 - Bonus Bill
• 1817 - Mississippi becomes a state
• 1818 - Cumberland Road opened
• 1818 - Convention of 1818
• 1818 - Illinois becomes a state
• 1819 - Panic of 1819
• 1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty, also called the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819
• 1819 - McCulloch v. Maryland 17 US 316 1819 prohibits state laws from infringing upon Federal constitutional authority
• 1819 - Dartmouth College v. Woodward 17 US 518 1819 protects principle of honoring contracts and charters
• 1819 - Alabama becomes a state