Episodes Around: 18200219

  1. Missouri Compromise
    date February 13, 1819 to March 6, 1820map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Slavery

    The Missouri Territory had requested admission to the US as a slave state as early as 1818. This otherwise routine petition became a complicated national debate over slavery. At the time, the nation held a balance of eleven slave and eleven free states, and although Missourians were undivided in their desire for unrestricted slavery, implementing such a system in a new state could cause bitter...

  2. Van Buren and Reservation in the South
    date 1820map HANOVER, Virginiatags Politics

    Martin Van Buren, a Democrat from New York and Vice President to Southerner Andrew Jackson was a questionable figure in the nineteenth- century South. His motives and ideas were unclear and not exactly in-line with everything that the South stood for during this time. He voted for Free Negro Suffrage; the South could not place a finger on the reasons behind his vote, resulting in an unstable opinion...

  3. Grundy and McMinn and the New Bank of the State of Tennessee
    date 1820map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Economy

    In 1820, Joseph McMinn, a farmer, state legislator, Indian agent, and governor, and Felix Grundy, a Congressman, U.S. Senator and Nashville Democrat leader, suggested to create a New Bank of the State of Tennessee; it was the central feature of his program while he was candidate for a seat in the state senate. This bank was supposed to be better than the old one, based in Knoxville: the state should...

  4. Charles Pinckney and George Tucker Speak Against the Missouri Compromise
    date February 14, 1820 to February 25, 1820map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Slavery

    South Carolina Governor and member of the House of Representatives, Charles Pinckney had been one of the youngest delegates of the Constitutional Convention in 1789. Pinckney remained a controversial political figure, due in part to his support of slavery. In 1820, he reacted to the attempts of some Northern congressmen to ban slavery from the Missouri Compromise. An example of the Northern position...

  5. The Mystique of Shamanism
    date February 19, 1820map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Health/Death, Native-Americans, Science/Technology

    On 19 February 1820, the Boston Recorder published an article on an incident that occurred overseas in Australia. A pilot at Port Dalrymple was bitten by a venomous snake and thought to be a goner by onlookers. However, a native stepped in and turned what appeared to be a man awaiting death into a healthy human being once again. He allegedly rubbed the wound with an unknown bark, palpated...