President:
Pres: James Madison
Pres: James Monroe elected over Rufus King
General
- Finance: Protective tariff in the US
US economics known as "American System"
Republicans promote National bank
Second national bank created
- Law: Sedition act increased
- Natives: Treaty with Chickasaw tribe
- Religion: American Bible Society founded
- Weather: Tambora eruption aftermath – world temperatures lower approximately 4 degrees, crops fail, frost in every month, starvation ensues
Year of "1800 and froze to death"
East
- General: Four frosts between June and August in New England - major exodus to 1820 into Ohio, Pennsylvania and western New York
- Pennsylvania: AME church formally started
Midwest
- Indiana: Statehood #19 as westward movement increases
Lincoln family arrives
- Iowa: Blacks disenfranchised
South
- Florida: Spain decided to sell Florida
Andrew Jackson ordered to take troops to East Florida, Jackson decides to conquer, called First Seminole War
Seminole Chiefs executed as orderd by Andrew Jackson
- Kentucky: Lincoln family leaves to move to Indiana
- Texas: US abandons claim as part of Louisiana purchase
West and Pacific