Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|
| 1839-07-02 | Amistad Captives Revolt and Win Freedom in Supreme Court, Exposing Slavery's Illegality
3 src John Quincy Adams · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1838-11-01 | Swartwout Embezzles $1.2 Million, Exposing Spoils System Corruption
3 src Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · U.S. Treasury | | confirmed |
| 1838-05-26 | Trail of Tears Forced Removal Begins as 7,000 Troops Round Up 16,000 Cherokee at Gunpoint
4 src Martin Van Buren · Cherokee Nation · U.S. Army · Georgia | | confirmed |
| 1837-11-07 | Abolitionist Editor Elijah Lovejoy Murdered by Pro-Slavery Mob; No Prosecutions Follow
4 src John Quincy Adams · John Brown · Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1837-05-10 | Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression
6 src Martin Van Buren · Andrew Jackson · State banks · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1836-07-11 | Jackson Issues Specie Circular Requiring Hard Money for Land Purchases, Triggering Credit Contraction
3 src Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · U.S. Treasury Department · Land speculators | | confirmed |
| 1836-05-26 | House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture
5 src John Quincy Adams · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1836-01-01 | Courts Prosecute Labor Unions as Criminal Conspiracies in 17 Cases Since 1806, Criminalizing Worker Organization
3 src Labor unions | | confirmed |
| 1835-12-29 | Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal
4 src Cherokee Nation · U.S. Congress · Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren | | confirmed |
| 1835-06-01 | Philadelphia General Strike Wins Ten-Hour Workday for 17 Trades Despite Court Hostility to Labor Organizing
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach
3 src Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1833-10-01 | Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter
4 src Second Bank of the United States · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1833-09-26 | Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit
4 src Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · State banks | | confirmed |
| 1832-11-24 | South Carolina Nullification Crisis Previews Slave Power Secession Tactics
3 src John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1832-07-10 | Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides
3 src Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · Second Bank of the United States | | confirmed |
| 1832-03-03 | Supreme Court Rules Georgia Cannot Seize Cherokee Lands; Jackson Refuses to Enforce Decision
3 src John Marshall · Andrew Jackson · Cherokee Nation · Georgia · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1831-08-21 | Nat Turner Rebellion Triggers Brutal Repression and Tightening of Slave Codes Across the South
5 src | | confirmed |
| 1830-05-28 | Indian Removal Act Authorizes Ethnic Cleansing to Benefit Land Speculators and Slaveholders
3 src Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · Cherokee Nation · Land speculators · +1 | | confirmed |