documents of American and Maryland History


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1800 - 1860 
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1800 - Convention With France; September 30

ca. 1800 Iroquois Women Work the  Fields

1801-04 Peter Cartwright Brings Evangelical Christianity to the West

1801 - Jefferson's First Inaugural Address; March 4

1801 - Jefferson's First Annual Message; December 8

1802 - Convention Regarding Articles 6 and 7 of the Jay Treaty and Article 4 of the Definitive Treaty of Peace January 8

1803 - Louisiana Purchase Treaty; April 30

1805 - Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address; March 4

1805 Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion

1807 Georgia Camp Meeting

1809 - James Madison's First Inaugural Address; March 4

1810 Ann Carson Becomes an Independent Businesswoman

1812 - Declaration of War With Great Britain; June 18

1813 - James Madison's Second Inaugural Address; March 4

1813 - Cartel for the exchange of prisoners of war with Great Britain; May 12

1814 - Treaty of Ghent with Great Britian; December 24

1815 - Convention With Great Britian and Associated Documents; July 3

1815 Enslaved James Riley Encounters an Arab Trader

1816 Chester Harding Becomes an Artist in the Early 19th-Century Countryside

1817 - James Monroe's First Inaugural Address; March 4

1817 - Exchange of Notes Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes; April 28-29

1818 - Convention With Great Britian; October 20

1818 John Doyle Writes Home to Ireland about difficult conditions

1819 - Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits With His Catholic Majesty; February 22

1820-50 Levi Coffin Describes his Work on the Underground Railroad in Newport, Indiana

1820's Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Life

1821 Davy Crockett Runs for Office on the Tennessee Frontier

1821 - James Monroe's Second Inaugural Address; March 5

1823 - Monroe Doctrine; December 2

1824 Emigration from New York to Michigan

1825-35 A Working Man’s Recollections of America

1825 - Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams; March 4

1826 - Cemetery in Algiers; March 21

1826 An Old Apprentice Laments Changes in the Workplace

1829 - First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson; March 4

1830's A Working Man Remembers Life in New York City

1831 An English Family Travels Up the Mississippi to Their New Home in Illinois

1831 Nat Turner “Confesses” 

1832 - South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, November 24

1832 - Andrew Jackson's Proclamation on Nullification, December 10

1833 - Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson; March 4

1834 Black Hawk Remembers Village Life Along the Mississippi

1834 Bear Hunting in Tennessee: Davy Crockett Tells Tales

1835 Work and Leisure in a New York Shipyard

1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne Travels the Erie Canal

1836 Letter from Chief John Ross of the Cherokee tribe in Georgia

1836 Englishman Thomas Woodcock Travels to Niagara on the Erie Canal

1836 The Lowell   Mill Girls Go on Strike

1836 - The Texas Declaration of Independence : March 2

1836 - Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Louisville, Kentucky, March 7

1837 - Inaugural Address of Martin Van Buren; March 4

1837 Two Virginia Slaveholders Debate Methods of Slave Management

1837 Charles Ball’s Journey into slavery in South Carolina

1838 Sally Rice Leaves the Farm to work in a factory

1838 White Artisans Contest the Labor of Black Workers

1838 - Texas-American Convention to Terminate Reclamations; April 11

1838 - Texas-American Boundary Convention; April 25

1841 - Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison; March 4

1841 Solomon Northrup Remembers the New Orleans Slave Market

1842 - The Webster-Ashburton Treaty and Associated Documents; August 9

1844 - Texas Treaty of Annexation; April 12

1844 Henry Bibb, escaped slave, Writes to his Former Master

1845 John P. Parker, Conductor on the Underground Railroad

1845 Lowell Women Workers Campaign for a Ten Hour Workday

1845 - Inaugural Address of James Polk; March 4

1845 - Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States for the Annexation of Texas; March 1

1845 - Joint Resolution of the Congress of Texas; June 23

1845 - Ordinance of the Convention of Texas; July 4

1846 - Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains; June 15

1846 - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico; September 22

1846 - Bill of Rights for the Territory of New Mexico; September 22

1847 Settlers From Illinois Describe Oregon

1848 Journalist Edward Gould Buffum Pans Gold in California

1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; February 2

1849 - Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor; March 5

1849 New York Police Chief Describes the City’s Vagrant and Delinquent Children 

1850 - Clayton-Bulwer Treaty; April 19

1850 - Fugitive Slave Act; September 18

1851 Reminiscences of Sojourner Truth Speaking

1851 "Dame Shirley” Describes Life at a California Gold Mining Camp

1852 Mary Ballou runs a Boardinghouse  in the California Gold Rush

1852 Norman Asing Challenges Chinese Immigration Restrictions

1852 Maria Perkins Writes to Her Husband About the Sale of Her Son

1852 - Treaty with the Apache, July 1

1853 - Treaty with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache; July 27

1853 In the Richmond Slave Market

1853 - Convention With Great Britain; February 8

·  1853 - Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce; March 4

1853 - Treaty With Mexico; December 30

1854 - Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan; March 31

1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act; May 30

1857 - Inaugural Address of James Buchanan; March 4

1859 - A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau; October 30

1860 - Democratic Party Platform; June 18

1860 - Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden, December 18

1860 - South Carolina : Declaration of Secession; December 24

 1860 Female Shoe and Textile Workers in Marblehead, Massachusetts



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