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Thomas Jefferson becomes third president of United States.
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Lewis and Clark leave to embark on their two year journey to explore the newly purchased Louisiana.
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Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel, in which Burr kills Hamilton and his image is ruined.
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The British burn down the White House and the Capitol together. The First Lady, Dolley Madison, saved a portrait of George Washington and one of Gilbert Stuart.
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The Missouri Compromise is signed. This was in attempt to balance the activity of slavery in the States and to keep the Union together.
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James K Polk announces that, indeed, gold has been discovered. This causes mass migration to California by many people in hops to find gold and gain wealth.
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The Compromise of 1850 was created, which delayed the Civil War but did not prevent it.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, which sells many copies and is very impactful for slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president of the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in a theatre.
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A war started in 1861, ends. Led by Ulysses S. grant, the Union defeated the Confederacy. As a result the south did not secede and slaves were allowed freedom through the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president of the United States after Ulysses S. Grant.
