1790s 1790 - Rhode Island becomes a state 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified 1791 - First Bank of the United States chartered 1791 - Vermont becomes a state 1792 - Kentucky becomes a 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 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 1800s 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 1803 - Louisiana Purchase Treaty 1803 - Ohio becomes a state 1804 - 12th Amendment 1804 - Essex Junto 1804 - New Jersey ends slavery 1804 - Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel 1804 - Lewis and Clark set out 1805 - Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli 1806 - Noah Webster's first dictionary 1806 - Cumberland Road passed 1807 - Embargo Act 1807 - US ship Leopard sunk by the British 1807 - Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807 - Robert Fulton builds steamboat 1808 - US slave trade with Africa ends 1809 - James Madison becomes President 1809 - Non-Intercourse Act 1810s 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 1760-1789 1790-1819 History of the United States 1820-1859
