1800s america

I have never written a timeline on this site. I've read a lot of other people's timelines and I have greatly enjoyed american political history, but I never thought my knowledge base was large enough or my writing skills good enough to try my hand at writing a timeline. That said on my own in a...

Just as the title says. After the initial War of Independence, the only real threat I've seen that could truly screw potential American dominance on the continent would by the failure of the Constitutional Convention and eventual splintering of the Union. However, by 1800 and the Jefferson...

The Missouri Compromise. Also known as the Compromise of 1820, it made Maine a free state, Missouri a slave state, and drew a line through Oklahoma ensuring that the balance of power in the Senate would always be in PERFECT balance, right? Right? Wrong. Even though it did succeed in keeping...