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| 1815 |
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| The emergence of “King Cotton” accelerated the westward movement of slaveholders and their human property. The movement west started around 1815 and culminated with the acquisition of Texas in 1845. In two generations more than 835,000 slaves had been moved from the southeast to the new southwest. | 1 |
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| 1816 |
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| The Second Bank of the United States was chartered. The tariff of 1816 provided increased protection. | 2 |
| The American Colonization Society was organized for the purpose of colonizing free blacks in Liberia. | 3 |
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| 1817, March 4–1825, March 4 |
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| JAMES MONROE (1758–1831), the fifth president. An era of good feeling, in which party strife seemed about to disappear, was indicated by the reelection of Monroe in 1820 with but one dissenting electoral vote. | 4 |
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| April 28 |
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| The Rush-Bagot Agreement between Great Britain and the United States limited naval forces on the Great Lakes. | 5 |
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