1824 in the United States
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| 1824 in the United States | |
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| Decades: | 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s |
| Years: | 1821 1822 1823 – 1824 – 1825 1826 1827 |
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Events from the year 1824 in the United States.
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[edit] Incumbents
- President: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
- Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic-Republican)
- Chief Justice: John Marshall
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (Dem.-Rep.-Kentucky)
- Congress: 18th
[edit] Events
- March 7 – Florida State Capitol moves from St. Augustine, Florida to Tallahassee, Florida
- March 11 – U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress.
- April 15 – To defend the Cherokees' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
- May 15 – A boiler explosion occurs on the steamship Aetna, en route in New York Harbor, killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.[1]
- August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
- November 5 – Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which is today known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
- November – Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election.
- December 1 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
- December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: None of the four candidates for U.S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives.
- December 24 – Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
- December 24 – The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.
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- Iowa tribe removed to a reservation in Kansas.
- Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River.
[edit] Ongoing
- Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)
- A. B. plot (1823–1824)
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[edit] References
- ^ Grohman, Adam M. (April 2011). "Sentinels and Saviors of the Sea". Boating World U. S. Coast Guard Series. River & Sound Publishing of NY, Inc. https://www.liboatingworld.com/archive/2011/04/LIBW/LIBW_22.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
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