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Territory purchased from France for 15 million dollars
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Burr challenged Hamilton, who couldn't refuse but didn't shoot at Burr, Burr kills Hamilton
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Thomas Jefferson reelected
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Vice-President no longer second highest in votes, they run as a bill with the president
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James Madison elected
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Led to war of 1812
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Led by William Henry Harrison, caused by British attempts to make Indians attack America, leads to War of 1812
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James Madison reelected
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Forced Native Americans to relinquish land
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Officially ended war of 1812, though the fighting didn't end immediately
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Placed high duties on import of English cotton cloth
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Nearly bankrupt by 1819
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James Monroe elected
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2nd Bank of United States had poor banking policies, but saved by Langdon Cheves
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James Monroe reelected
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John Quincy Adams elected after corrupt bargain
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Built for ease of transportation, instant success
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Later becomes a Perfectionism preacher
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Andrew Jackson elected
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Tariff of Abominations, enraged South
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Andrew Jackson's campaign to shut down the 2nd Bank of the United States
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Granted land to native Americans to get them to leave and move to Kansas or Oklahoma
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Starts Mormonism
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Preaches 98 sermons in under a year
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Turner and his supporters slaughter their masters and many other whites in the area, Turner executed
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Andrew Jackson reelected
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Primary founder was William Lloyd Garrison
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Treaty made with a minor Cherokee faction which forced the removal of all Cherokees
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Martin Van Buren elected, first president of Dutch ancestry
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Likely caused by Jackson's shutdown of the 2nd Bank of United States
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Perfectionist community, residents practiced complex marriage
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Written by Grimke sisters
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William Henry Harrison elected, Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign, Harrison dies in office almost immediately, John Tyler succeeds him
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Written by Catherine Beecher
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A transcendentalist community, economic failure however, and burned in 1846
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James K. Polk elected
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Named Rainbow, built for speed
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28th state
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Battle in American-Mexican War, U.S. troops nearly defeated
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U.S. pays 15 million dollars for over a third of Mexico's territory
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Zachary Taylor Elected
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5 separate laws, angered South
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Written by Herman Melville
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Written by Henry David Thoreau, about his time living alone in a cabin
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Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Franklin Pierce elected
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Led to Bleeding Kansas
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Chaotic political battle over whether Kansas should be a free or slave state
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James Buchanan elected
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Abraham Lincoln elected
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Abraham Lincoln reelected
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Ulysses S. Grant elected
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Ulysses S. Grant reelected
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Rutherford B. Hayes elected, one of the most controversial elections in history