The time after the Revolutionary War was a time of growth and expansion for the government and borders of the United States. Here you can learn about important events and changes in American history after the Revolutionary War.
President Jefferson sent a couple of his representatives over to France to buy the city of New Orleans. What he got was the Louisiana Purchase, a patch of land that nearly doubled the size of the young nation. See more »
Erie Canal, the most famous of the early canals in the United States and one of the most important transportation links of the first half of the 19th century.
See more »Essex Junto, a group of extreme New England Federalists, many of whom were aristocratic merchants from Essex County, Massachusetts.
See more »Federalist Party, in United States history, the group that supported a strong central government during the administrations of George Washington and John Adams.
See more »French and Indian War, (1754-63), a struggle between France and Great Britain for control of North America.
See more »Ghent, Treaty of, the treaty that ended the War of 1812. It was signed in Ghent, Belgium, on December 24, 1814, and ratified February 17, 1815.
See more »Morris, Gouverneur (1752–1816), a United States statesman. As a member of the constitutional convention in 1787, Morris was an eloquent advocate of a strong central government, and was given the task of putting the Constitution into its final literary form.
See more »Blennerhasset, Harman (1765–1831), an Anglo-American adventurer and associate of Aaron Burr.
See more »Hartford Convention, a meeting of New England Federalists at Hartford, Connecticut, during the War of 1812.
See more »Jay Treaty, or Jay's Treaty, a treaty negotiated and signed in 1794 by John Jay, United States special envoy, and Lord William Grenville, British foreign secretary, to settle mutual grievances.
See more »Laffite (or Lafitte), Jean(1780?–1826?), a privateer, smuggler, and patriot. Well-educated, handsome Laffite was the last of the famed buccaneers who plundered shipping along the Spanish Main (coastal seaway of the Caribbean).
See more »Kamehameha I, or Kamehameha the Great, (1758?–1819), the first king of the Hawaiian Islands.
See more »Kaskaskia historic site lying underwater in the Mississippi River near Chester, Illinois.
See more »Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, a series of resolutions denouncing the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
See more »Kitchen Cabinet, in United States history, a name applied to a group of President Andrew Jackson's political friends who were influential in his administration.
See more »Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of the French province of Louisiana by the United States in 1803.
See more »Monroe Doctrine, the United States policy that opposes foreign intervention in the affairs of the Americas.
See more »Cleaveland, Moses (1754-1806), a United States pioneer, the founder of Cleveland, Ohio.
See more »Old Ironsides, the popular nickname for the United States frigate Constitution, a vessel of the original U.S.
See more », an incident in the violent quarrel over slavery and statehood in Kansas in the 1850's.
See more »Pinckney's Treaty, or Treaty of San Lorenzo, signed October 27, 1795, a treaty between the United States and Spain.
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