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Jefferson and Burr both received 73 electoral votes and it took 35 ballots to finally reach a decision and Jefferson became president. This brought the 12th amendment.
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Napoleon needed money so he sold the Louisiana Territory. Jefferson believed in strict construction but would be highly discriminated if he didn't purchase the land so he bought if from Napoleon and sent Lewis and Clark to scout out the land.
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The Vice Presidential position will no longer be held by the candidate with the 2nd most votes. Each Presidential candidate must run with a Vice Presidential candidate.
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Hamilton is murdered by Burr. On February 19, 1807 Burr is also charged of treason but found not guilty. He basically starts screwing up a lot and people don't like him.
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In 1806 we begin to see more roads being built.
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Neutral countries need permission from Britain to trade with France and its colonies
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Jefferson didn't run again and James Madison won over Charles Pickney
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No trading with Britain or France because we want to remain neutral.
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We would repeal the Non-intercourse Act if one of the two countries lifted their restrictions on us, but not the other. France lifted our restrictions and we continued trade with them.
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On August 16th we surrendered Detroit without a shot fired but in September we won the Battle of Lake Erie. We retook Detroit in the Battle of Theemes. In April 1814 Britain defeated Napoleon and in August they invaded Chesapeake Bay. This is what causes Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner. It ended with the Treaty of Ghent on December 24th, 1814.
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James Monroe becomes president. He holds the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the political system of European powers was different than the U.S. and we would not interfere with existing European controlled colonies.
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Established in 1816, but nearly went bankrupt in 1819.
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British goods flooded the market after the War of 1812 and this placed a tax on imported goods so that America didn't lose all their money to British goods.
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Money goes aside to make the Erie canal, which is completed and opened in 1819. This helps lead to the invention of the steamboat by Robert Fulton "Clermont"!!!!!!!
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Britain is to remove their Navy from the Great Lakes.
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Set the boundary between U.S. and Britain at the 49th parallel.
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This was the first major depression and it was due to poor banking policies. Farmers couldn't keep up with their debt because they produced too many crops and the prices dropped. Banks wanted their loans back from farmers but farmers couldn't pay. Landon Cheves became the president of the Second Bank of the United States and reduced bank employee salaries and cut back on loans to save the bank.
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Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state but it would upset the balance of free and slave states. So we decided to let Maine into the Union as a free state at the same time to keep the balance equal.
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5 "republican" candidates ran for office, but so many men ran that the votes were too evenly spread and people began dropping out of the race. Calhoun dropped out and supported Jackson, then Clay was ruled out and supported Adams in a corrupt bargain because he believed Adams would make him Secretary of State. SO in the end, John Quincy Adams won.
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This enraged the South and was called the "Tariff of Abominations".
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Andrew Jackson became president with Martin Van Buren as his VP. He stood for a message of equal rights and popular rule and became the first trans-Appalachian president.
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Post Office Act of 1792 takes into affect and by 1830 there are 8000 post offices.
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Granted the Native Americans the land of Kansas and Oklahoma.
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Turner and 20 armed slaves and free blacks slaughtered their white neighbors. It didn't take long to track Turner down and execute him.
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Reduced Tariff rates to modest levels of 1816 by 1842. Gave the US Army the right to go to South Carolina and make them comply.
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Abolitionism begins growing popular and people are speaking out against slavery
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All Cherokee had to relocate to new land
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Martin Van Buren (Democrat) ran against 4 Whig candidates and became the new President.
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John Deere invents the first steel plow. Mass producing causes produce prices do drop and business to increase.
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Van Buren inherited Jackson's financial policies and had to clean up after the mess he made
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William Henry Harrison becomes president through the "log cabin and hard cider" campaign but dies after just over a month in office and is replaced by his VP, John Tyler.
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Several immigrants are from Ireland, Germany, and England. Although the English avoided living in the South. By 1850, 43% of Americans are foreign-born and many are Catholics.
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The Oregon Trail became the first organized wagon trail.
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James K Polk becomes president by promising to fight for the land up to the 49th parallel.
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The first clipper ship is made. It is built for speed, not cargo
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The US pays Mexico $15 million for more than one third of their territory.
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Railroads begin replacing canals, and "all modern roads lead to Chicago" because of their meat packing industry.
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Franklin Pierce becomes president
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An abolitionist novel fighting against slavery was published.
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Kansas is being fought for over free and slave states but ultimately enters the Union a free state along with Nebraska as a free state in order to keep balance.
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By 1860 there are 60,000 self-styled doctors.