Timeline Fall 2013
March 4, 1817 - President James Monroe sworn in as the fifth President of the United States.
April 28, 1817 - Charles Bagot, Britain's minister, agrees to the conditions of the Rush-Bagot Agreement. The Rush-Bagot Agreement was the agreement between the United States and Great Britain to eliminate their fleets from the Great Lakes, excepting small patrol vessels.
June 1817 - Monroe went on a lengthy sixteen-week tour of New England. The tour ..
of Monroe's administration as the "Era of Feelings".
December 1817 - Monroe enunciates a policy of neutrality towards the Latin American colonies seeking independence.
December 10, 1817 - The state of Mississippi became the twentieth state in the union.
December 26, 1817 - General Andrew Jackson was ordered by the Secretary of War John C. Calhoun to quell Seminole Indian uprisings in the Floridas and southern Georgia. Eventually, the general receives a private letter of course from Monroe urging such action.
June 18,1818 - Monroe concluded that General Andrew Jackson's actions in Pensacola prevented acts of war. Also, Monroe realized activities by the general in the Floridas provided the Unites with a commending strategic position for negotiations with Spain.
October 20,1818 - At the Anglo-American Convention, British and American diplomats conclude a treaty resolving majority of the impressive issues from the War 1812. A northern border was agreed by the nation at the Louisiana Purchase, fixed at the 49th parallel, from the Lake of Woods to the Rocky Mountains.
December 3, 1818 - The twentieth-first state of the Union was admitted to Illinois.
December 14, 1818 - The state of Alabama became the twentieth-second state of the Union.
January 1819 - The Panic began to shape. The decline in real estate values expand the currency and caused all imports as well as prices to drop. Two month later, in March, the price of cotton collapsed in the English market.
February 15, 1819 - The debate to the Union are triggered by New York Republican congressman James Tallmadge, Jr. He introduces an amendment to the Missouri statehood bill prohibiting further introduction on slavery in Missouri. Tallmadge proposed a gradual emancipation in the Louisiana territory.
February 22, 1819 - The Transcontinental Treaty, that is also known as the Adams-Onis treaty was resolved after conclusion of negotiations dating back to July 1818.
March 3, 1820 - The Congress agrees to the first Missouri Compromise, addressing congressional jurisdiction over the conditions of statehood.
March 15, 1820 - Maine was admitted as the twenty-third state of the Union.
December 6, 1820 - Receiving 231 electoral votes, Monroe was reelected as President of the United States.
March 2, 1821 - The military Establishment Act was signed by Monroe and forwarded by Secretary of War Calhoun, inorder to reduce the Army's manpower by 40 percent to 6,126 men.
March 5, 1821 - The second presidential term started for Monroe.
August 10, 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the twenty-fourth state of the Union.
August 20, 1823 - George Canning, the British foreign secerary wrote a letter to Richard Rush. The purpose of the letter was to deliberate recognition to the "no-transfer" principle advocated by the United States.
December 02, 1823 - James Monroe formerly express the foreign policy position, known as the "Monroe Doctrine". The policy meets the approval and political consent.