Major Events of Presidency:
- Era of Good Feelings begins, in which partisan disputes were at an all time low and the Virginia Dynasty ended
- Protective Tariff protects American textile industry from foreign competition
- Indiana enters Union as 17th state
- Mississippi admitted as 18th state
- Andrew Jackson invades Florida and ends first Seminole War (used later as threat against Spain to get them to cede Florida in Adams-Onís treaty)
- First of boom and bust cycles occurs (Panic of 1819), depression follows
- Supreme Court hears Fletcher v. Peck and Dartmouth College v. Woodward and rules that all contracts are inviolable
- McCulloch v. Maryland case heard by Supreme Court, ruled banks were not allowed to be taxed by states and implied powers of congress confirmed
- Alabama becomes 19th state
- Stephen H. Long explores Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas
- Missouri Compromise enacted, admitting Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave one, and stating all states north of southern Missouri border would remain free
- Mexico won independence from Spain
- William Becknell opened trade between U.S. and New Mexico
- Rocky Mountain Fur Company founded
- Johnson v. McIntosh, Supreme Court rules that tribes had a right to their land that precedes all American law, and that individual Americans could not buy land from the tribes, only the federal government could do so
- Monroe Doctrine, protecting Latin American from further European colonization, proclaimed