Events

1820's:

• U.S. population is reaches 10 million (1.7 million being African)

• First public high school opens in Boston

• Monroe Doctrine announced

• U.S. signs treaty with Russia

• John Quincy Adams is elected president

• Democratic party is established

• Slavery is abolished in Mexico

1830's:

• • U.S. census reaches 13 million (2.3 million being of African descent)

  • Indian removal Bill is passed by congress

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Slavery is abolished in the British Empire

  • Texas declares independence from Mexico

  • Slaves from L'Amistad ship are freed by U.S. supreme court

1840's:

• • U.S. population reaches 17 million (including 3 million people of African Descent)

  • Supreme court deems prohibiting the capture of fugitive slaves as "unconstitutional"

  • Mexican wars begins and ends by 1848

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/triumphnationalism/timeline.pdf