Presidency Chart – Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

Election of 1836	Panic of 1837
	Causes Effects Independent Treasury Act (1840)
Labor Politics	Indian Affairs
Workingmen’s Parties Loco Focos Commonwealth v. Hunt	Trail of Tears (1838) Seminole War and Osceola
Foreign Affairs
Aroostoock War (1839) The Texas Question: Should the US annex Texas?
Religion and Reform
Transcendentalists Communalists Brook Farm Shakers Fourierism Oneidas	Abolitionism Calls for Revolt (from 1829 on) and Nat Turner’s Rebellion Division within the Abolitionist Movement