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| 1817 | American Colonization Society founded |
| 1821 | New York constructs first penitentiary |
| 1828 | Jackson elected president Tariff of Abominations Calhoun's "South Carolina Exposition and Protest" |
| 1829 | Jackson inaugurated as "People's President" |
| 1830 | Webster-Hayne debate Jackson vetoes Maysville Road bill Indian Removal Act passed Joseph Smith publishes the Book of Mormon |
| 1831 | William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing "The Liberator" Cherokee Nation v. Georgia |
| 1832 | Jackson vetoes bill to recharter U.S. Bank South Carolina nullifies Tariff of Abominations |
| 1833 | Jackson removes federal deposits from Bank of U.S. |
| 1836 | Jackson issues specie circular |
| 1837 | Horace Mann becomes secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education Elijah Lovejoy killed by anti-abolitionist mob in Illinois |
| 1838 | Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes" |
| 1841 | Brook Farm commune founded in Massachusetts |
| 1844 | Joseph Smith killed by mob |
| 1845 | Frederick Douglass publishes autobiography |
| 1847 | Mormons found Salt Lake City |
| 1848 | Women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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