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In 1800, Thomas Jefferson was elected as the 3rd president of the US
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in 1803, Jefferson buys Louisiana from France for $15 Million
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In 1804 Lewis and Clark set out on their expedition to explore land that came with the Louisiana Purchase
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In 1809, James Madison is elected the 4th President
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In 1817, James Monroe is Elected President of the US
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in 1819, Florida is purchased from Spain for $5 Million
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In 1820, the Missouri Compromise was created and signed. Allowing slavery in states south of the compromise line, and free states in the north.
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in 1824, the British invaded and burned the Whitehouse and the Capitol
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In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president, but the election was very nasty and came down to being resolved by the House
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The Erie Canal was completed in 1825 and made New York the Empire State
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In 1828 Andrew Jackson is elected President, and his election was no better than John Quincy Adams, and his party almost destroyed the Whitehouse
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In 1836, for 13 days, 123 Texians defended the Alamo against General Santa Anna and his army. In the days that followed, General Sam Houston Defeated Santa Anna's Army at the Battle of Seguin and got Santa Anna, to sign over all Mexican rights to Texas.
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In 1837, Van Buren starts his term as President of the US
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in 1860, Abraham Lincoln is elected the 12th President of the United States.
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Just a year after Lincoln is elected the Union and the South engage in a Civil War over slavery
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In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln gives his well renounced Gettysburg Address, and issues the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery
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In 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, and the Civil War also ended during this year
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In 1869, former Union General Ulysses S. Grant starts his term as President of the US
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In 1876, the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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In 1877, there were two huge inventions. One was the phonograph by Thomas Edison, and the other was the microphone by Emile Berliner
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Just 2 years after inventing the phonograph, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
