President:
Pres: Andrew Jackson reelected over Henry Clay
General
- Abolition: Wm Lloyd Garrison forms Anti-Slavery Society
- Americana: Death of last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence Charles Carrol of Carrollton
- Finance: National bank becomes voting issue - Jackson vetoes bank bill
Tariff rates lowered, but South doesn't see an improvement
Federal money flows into "pet banks"
- Medicine: Cholera outbreak in USA
- Natives: Black Hawk War
Supreme Court sides with Cherokee for rights
Potawatomi natives kill 15 and kidnap 2 at Indian Creek
- Politics: Democratic Party adopted its name
John Calhoun becomes first Vice President to resign, later winning Senate seat
Whig party forms in US
Nominating conventions established (Open meetings, as opposed to caucuses)
Abraham Lincoln enters politics
East
- Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison and abolitionists form New England Anti-Slavery Society
- New York: First horse-drawn trolleys in New York
3000 die of Cholera in New York City
- Republic of Indian Stream: Future section of New Hampshire firms to 1835 - claimed by US and Canada
Midwest
- Wisconsin: 150 Indians killed in WI by General Henry Atkinson
South
- Louisiana: 4000 die of Cholera in New Orleans
- South Carolina: Threatens to secede after tarrifs pass
West and Pacific