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The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
Events from the year 1815 in the United States. As news slowly spread of the Treaty of Ghent (1814) ending the War of 1812 , battles between American and British forces continued in the early months of the year.
The war drew to a close after bitter fighting that lasted even after the Burning of Washington in August 1814 and Andrew Jackson's smashing defeat of the British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815. The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in February 1815, formally ended the war, returned to the status quo ante bellum ...
Election Day in Philadelphia by John Lewis Krimmel, 1815. The Era of Good Feelings started in 1815 at the end of the War of 1812. [2] Exultation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, the North and South, and the East Coast cities and settlers on the American frontier.
The first federal Elections for the House of Representatives begin 1788–89 United States presidential election (December 15, 1788 – January 10, 1789). George Washington is elected president, and John Adams is elected vice president.
1801–1815: the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa. Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres. American politician Alexander Hamilton begins publishing the New York Evening Post as the Federalist "Vehicle" for their news.
End of the First British Empire; Began the Age of Revolution; World's first federal republic founded on the consent of the governed; ... 1815–1849 Era of Good ...
March 4, 1821 – President Monroe and Vice President Tompkins begin their second terms; 1821 – Missouri becomes a state; 1821 – Florida becomes a U.S. territory; the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty goes into effect; 1823 – Monroe Doctrine proclaimed; 1824 – Gibbons v. Ogden (22 US 1 1824) affirms federal over state authority in interstate ...