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The Library of Congress is founded
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John Adams is the first president to move into the white house.
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Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third president of the United State by the Electoral College.
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Tripoli proclaims war against the U.S. The U.S had refused to pay additional tribute to commerce raiding corsairs.
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The Judicial Court established that they could tear down laws that were unconstitutional establishing them as an equal branch of the three.
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Thomas Jefferson doubles the size of the United States with his purchase of the Louisiana territory.
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Thomas Jefferson orders Lewis and Clark to map the Louisiana territory.
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Thomas Jefferson is re-elected to serve a second term as president of the United States.
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The Michigan Territory is established.
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Peace is finally made with Tripoli which secured commercial shipping rights.
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The National Road is given an okay to be built. This would be the first federally funded highway to be built.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition ends.
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James Madison is selected to be the 4th president of the United States by the electoral college.
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The importation of slaves is prohibited. Illegal importation of slaves continues.
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4,000 American soldiers are stolen from their ships by Britain which causes trade between America and Britain to stop.
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Madison asks Congress to declare war on Great Britain.
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War of 1812 begins officially.
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Jame Madison is elected for a second term as president of the U.S.
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American troops raid Toronto, Canada but do not occupy it.
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Despite the Americans having a force three times the size the British had, the British win with 700 men.
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The White house id burned to the ground by British forces in return to the Americans destroying Canadian public buildings.
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Francis Scott Key writes the song 'Star-Spangled Banner' while watching the British attack Fort McHenry.
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The Americans and the British sign a treaty calling for peace in the war of 1812.
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The last battle of the war of 1812 occurs after the signing of the treaty where. Andrew Jackson wins the battle against the British
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James Monroe wins the presidential election making him the 5th president of the United States.
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Construction of the Eries canal starts in Rome, New York.
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Congress formally adopts a flag with thirteen red and white stripes and one star for each state in the union.
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The heavy amount of borrowing by the government to finance the War of 1812 was a leading cause of the economic decline in the U.S.
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Florida is given to America from the Spanish in the Adam-onis Treaty.
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The Missouri Compromise goes into effect which was suggested by Henry Clay.
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James Monroe is re-elected into the presidential office with a massive win of 231 to 1.
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James Monroe gives His speech the Monroe Doctrine which states that the western hemisphere is to not be colonized by the eastern countries in Europe.
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John Quincy Adams wins the election just barely after the electoral college does not yield a majority vote thus sending it to the house of representatives.
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South Carolina, in response to the Tariff of Abominations, begins to process of nullification.
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Andrew Jackson wins the voting against John Quincy Adams and is elected as the next President.
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The Smithsonian Institute is founded
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William Austin Burt obtains a patent for the Typewriter
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the Indian Removal Act facilitated the relocation of Indian tribes from east of the Mississippi River. this created the trail of tears.
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A local slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner, a black slave, kills fifty-seven white citizens.
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Andrew Jackson signed a bill that protected four parcels of land with natural mineral hot springs.
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The United States Congress passed a compromise tariff act in response to South Carolina's objections.
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Andrew Jackson passes another bill stating he can enforce federal law in South Carolina if necessary.
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The first attempt on a president's life. A house painter fires two shots at Andrew Jackson and misses.
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the battle of the Alamo was 139 Texans fighting 3,000 of Santa Fe's soldiers which lasts 13 days.
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Martin Van Buren, a Democrat, wins the Presidential election for 8th president of the U.S
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The patent for the first United States electronic printing press is awarded to Thomas Davenport.
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William Henry Henderson wins the election for the President against the previous president Martin Van Buren.
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William Henry Harrison dies after just 1 month in office from pneumonia. John Tyler takes over as the 9th president.
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The United States signs a treaty with China called the treaty of Wanghia. It is the first signed treaty between the two nations.
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James.K.Polk is elected as the 10th president of the United States.
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The Congress of Texas votes to be annexed into the United States.
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Quitman's division entered a deserted city, which had been abandoned by Santa Anna's forces during the night on September 15.
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End of the Mexico war. Mexico cedes California, texas, and New Mexico.
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The Declaration of Sentiment os signed by 100 men and women advocating for women's rights for the first time in New York.
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Zachary Taylor considered a hero from the Mexico War, is elected as President by the electoral college.
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Millard Fillmore is elected as the 13th president of the United States
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In response to America gaining territory from Mexico which is almost all below the Missouri compromise line. This called for another compromise in an attempt to avoid civil war.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her masterpiece 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
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Franklin Pierce wins the election for the 13th president of the united states against Winifield Scott.
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The United States buy a 29,640 sq mile piece of land that is now compromised of Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million.
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Kansas-Nebraska act goes into effect allowing Nebraska and Kansas to decide if they are a slave state or not by popular sovereignty.
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The Shuttle Sewing Machine and its machine motor are patented by Isaac M. Singer, improving the development of the sewing machine.
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James C.Buchanan is elected as the 14th president of the United States of America.
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The Supreme court rules that even if a slave is transported to a free state they are not free.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the vote for the 15th president of the United States.
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North Carolina responds to Lincoln winning the Election by being the first American state to Secede from the United States.
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The confederacy fires on Fort Sumter which is considered the start of the civil war.
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The First Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, Virginia occurs with the repulsion of Union forces by the Confederacy. The confederacy easily wins this battle against the union.
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granted family farms of 160 acres (65 hectares) to settlers.
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Abraham Lincoln states that any slaves that escape to the union would be free as of Jan 1 1863
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The bloodiest battle of the civil war occurs in Gettysburg. It lasts from July 1 to July 3.
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Abraham Lincoln gives one of the most famous American speeches to this day. He speaks at the town cemetery where many of the soldiers may have been buried.
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General Robert E.Lee gives up his soldiers numbered 27,000 to Ulysses S.Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford theater when John Wilkes Booth walks up behind Abraham and fires a shot. He then runs to a warehouse where he is captured.
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The thirteenth amendment abolishes slavery in the United States.
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Johnson was charged with violating the Tenure of Office Act by trying to remove the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. The President is acquitted by one vote.
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Ulysses s.Grant wins the election making him the 18th president of the United States.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi takes his place in the United States Senate.
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The 15th Amendment stated that blacks were given the right to vote and that color of skin was not a reason to withhold the right to vote.
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Southern states are given the right to vote except for a select few confederate leaders.
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An economic depression begins when the New York stock market crashed, setting off a financial panic that caused bank failures.