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Thomas Jefferson Became President, 1801
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Marbury vs. Madison, 1803
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Louisiana Purchase 1803
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Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1805
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James Madison Becomes President, 1809
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War of 1812, 1812
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Star Spangles Banner was Written, 1814
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Treaty of Ghent, 1814
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James Monroe Became President, 1817
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Missouri Compromise, 1820
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Monroe Doctrine, 1823
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John Quincy Adams Becomes President, 1825
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Andrew Jackson Became President, 1829
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Indian Removal Act, 1830
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Nat Turner Started a Slave Uprising, 1831
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William Lloyd Garrison began The Liberator, 1831
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Texas Declares Independence from Mexico, 1836
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Martin Van Buren Became President, 1837
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Trail of Tears, 1838
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William Henry Harrison Becomes President, 1841
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James Polk Became President, 1845
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The Term "Manifest Destiny" Became Popular, 1845
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Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Zachery Taylor Becomes President, 1849
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Franklin Pierce Becomes President, 1853
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James Buchanan Becomes President, 1857
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Abraham Lincoln Becomes President, 1860
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Lincoln Was Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth,1865
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Thirteen Amendment, 1865
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Ulysses S. Grant Becomes President, 1869
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Chicago Fires, 1871