Task #1: Research each event and write two or three sentences explaining why this event is important and how it affected America. Be sure to write your answers in your own words and do not copy directly from the websites.

Task #2:
Explain why you believe American might be different if this event had not occurred.

List of important events in American History:

1820 – Missouri Compromise

1820 – Maine becomes a state

1820 – U. S. presidential election, James Monroe re-elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice-president.

1821 – Missouri becomes a state.

1823 – Monroe Doctrine proclaimed.

1824 – U. S. Presidential election, 1824: results inconclusive

1825 – John Quincy Adams elected president by The House of Representatives; John C. Calhoun becomes vice-president

1825 – Erie Canal completed

1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die within hours of each other on Independence Day

1828 - South Carolina Exposition and Protest published during the Nullification Crisis

1828 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad construction begun

1828 – U. S. presidential election