AP US History: The Early Republic (Dates)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1789 | Constitution goes into effect; George Washington becomes president |
| 1790 | Alexander Hamilton's First Report on the Public Credit submitted |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified |
| 1791 | Bank of the United States chartered for 20 years |
| 1793 | Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality |
| 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania |
| 1795 | Jay's Treaty with Britain ratified |
| 1796 | Pinckney's Treaty with Spain ratified |
| 1796 | John Adams elected president |
| 1797 | XYZ affair; increased tensions with France |
| 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts; D-R respond with Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
| 1800 | "Revolution of 1800"; Thomas Jefferson elected president |
| 1803 | Supreme Court establishes judicial review in Marbury v. Madison |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
| 1804-1807 | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| 1807 | Chesapeake affair; Embargo Act forbids American Trade |
| 1808 | US participation in international slave trade abolished |
| 1808 | James Madison elected president |
| 1811 | Techmseh and his allies defeated at Battle of Tippicanoe |
| 1812-1814 | War of 1812 |
| 1814 | Hartford Convention |
| 1814 | Treaty of Ghent signed; prewar territorial boundaries restored |
| 1815 | Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans |
| 1816 | James Monroe elected president |
| 1817 | Rush-Bagot Treaty signed |
| 1819 | Panic of 1819 ends postwar boom |
| 1819 | McCulloch v. Maryland and Dartmouth College v. Woodward establish supremacy of national government over states and limit state power over contract, respectively |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1821 | Florida Purchase Treaty ratified |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1824 | Gibbons v. Ogden clarifies Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce |
| 1824 | John Quincy Adams elected president; end of the Virginia dynasty |
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