Interactive Timeline – 1818-1856

correct incorrect Mar Congress passes Neutrality Act to suppress private warfare

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mexico secures independence from Spain

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Greeks win War of Independence against Ottoman Empire

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Decembrist Revolt in Russia fails

correct incorrect Jul Cherokee Indians ratify tribal constitution modeled on U.S. Constitution

correct incorrect Frances Wright delivers first public address by an American woman to a mixed-gender audience

correct incorrect Aug Discovery of gold on Cherokee land in Georgia

correct incorrect May Congress passes Indian Removal Act

correct incorrect Alexis de Tocqueville arrives in the United States for a two-year study of the country, resulting in 1835 publication of Democracy in America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Polish revolt against Russian Empire fails

correct incorrect Mar Supreme Court issues decision in Worcester v. Georgia holding that Congress has sole authority to regulate relations with Indian tribes

correct incorrect Nov South Carolina legislature passes "Ordinance of Nullification" intending to nullify federal tariff

correct incorrect Mar Congress passes "Force Act" giving President Jackson power to suppress South Carolina's refusal to collect federal tariff

correct incorrect Dec Second Seminole War begins in southern Georgia/northern Florida

correct incorrect Mar Mexican forces led by General Santa Anna defeat and kill combined force of Texan and Tejano rebels at the Alamo

correct incorrect Apr Mexican president and general Santa Anna defeated along San Jacinto River; Texas independence declared

correct incorrect May U.S. House of Representatives imposes "gag rule" prohibiting introduction or discussion of petitions calling for abolition

correct incorrect Dec Rensselaer Van Rensselaer leads American filibusters into Canada

correct incorrect Jan General Winfield Scott sent to Canadian border to suppress violence

correct incorrect May General Winfield Scott arrives in Georgia and begins confining Cherokee people before their forced march to Indian territory

correct incorrect Aug Wilkes Expedition sets sail from Hampton Roads, Virginia

correct incorrect Mississippi passes first "Married Women's Property Act", granting married women independent rights to property brought into marriage

correct incorrect First Anglo-Chinese War begins

correct incorrect Jun Wilkes Expedition returns

correct incorrect May First successful large-scale wagon train departs Missouri for the Pacific coast

correct incorrect Aug Second Seminole War ends; 90% of the Seminole killed during conflict

correct incorrect THE WORLD: First Anglo-Chinese War ends

correct incorrect Dec Congress repeals "gag rule"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Treaty of Wanghia between Qing Empire and United States enables first American ambassador to China

correct incorrect Irish famine begins

correct incorrect Jul "Declaration of Sentiments" passed at Seneca Falls, NY, by women's rights advocates calling for equality between men and women

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Democratic revolutions in Italy, Hungary, Germany, and France

correct incorrect Dec Hungarian democracy activist Louis Kossuth tours United States

correct incorrect William Walker briefly holds office as president of Nicaragua before being executed