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election of 1800
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enslaved men planned to end slavery in Virginia by attacking Richmond in late August
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French secretly reacquired Louisiana
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Tenskwatawa’s witch hunts
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United States had purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French at a fire-sale price.
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Marbury v. Madison
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Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh built their alliance.
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British demanded that neutral ships first carry their goods to Britain to pay a transit duty before they could proceed to France.
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Britain was in the process of outlawing the slave trade
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Embargo Act
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British attacked the USS Chesapeake
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efferson’s embargo sent the nation into a deep depression and drove exports down from $108 million
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Britain, France, and their allies seized about nine hundred American ships
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Jefferson retired from the presidency
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United States ended its legal participation in the global slave trade
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constitutional ban on the international slave trade
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Supreme Court extended judicial review to state laws.
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A free Black population of fewer than 60,000 in 1790 increased to more than 186,000
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Hillis Hadjo, who accompanied Tecumseh when he toured throughout the Southeast
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan expired
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War of 1812
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emocratic-Republicans held 75 percent of the seats in the House and 82 percent of the Senate, giving them a free hand to set national policy.
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American naval forces secured control of the Great Lakes
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Tecumseh fell on the battlefields of Moraviantown, Ontario
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Atlantic Theater
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U.S. Navy won their most significant victories in the Atlantic Ocean
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American industrial espionage
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Napoleon’s defeat
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Americans gained naval victories on Lake Champlain near Plattsburgh
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United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent
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New England Federalists met in Hartford
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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Southern Theater
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The British sailed for New Orleans, where they achieved a naval victory at Lake Borgne before losing the land invasion to Major General Andrew Jackson’s troops
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explosion of patents on agricultural technologies.
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the last Federalist to run for president, Rufus King, lost to Monroe
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U.S. soldiers and their Creek allies had already destroyed the “Negro Fort,”
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South Carolina congressman John C. Calhoun called for building projects to “bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.”
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Depressions devastated the economy
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Dartmouth v. Woodward
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Louisiana Purchase, applied for statehood
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Adams-Onís Treaty
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Missouri Compromise
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More than five million immigrants arrived in the United States
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over 250,000 Irish immigrants arrived in the United States.
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only three states still had rules about how much property someone had to own before he could vote.
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New York State completed the Erie Canal
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The United States’ first long-distance rail line launched from Maryland
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Calhoun secretly drafted the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest,” an essay and set of resolutions that laid out the doctrine of nullification.”
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Adams and Jackson squared off in one of the dirtiest presidential elections to date
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David Walker, a Black abolitionist in Boston, wrote an Appeal that called for resistance to slavery and racism.
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English traveler Frances Trollope made the journey across the Allegheny Mountains from Cincinnati to the East Coast.
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New England was losing its competitive advantage to the West.
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census data suggests that at least 3,500 people were still enslaved in the North.
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textile companies made up 88 out of 106 American corporations valued at over $100,000.
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Martin Van Buren, a New York political leader replaced Calhoun as vice president when Jackson ran for reelection
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Massachusetts, stopped supporting an official religious denomination. Historians call that gradual process disestablishment.
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Jackson directed his cabinet to stop depositing federal funds in it.
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Textile operatives in Lowell, Massachusetts, “turned out” (walked off) their jobs
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citywide strike in Boston
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Congress decided to increase the number of banks receiving federal deposits.
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Treasury Department issued an order called the Specie Circular
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Federal land sales plummeted.
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Vice President Martin Van Buren, easily won election
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Depressions devastated the economy
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Panic of 1837
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Panic of 1837
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Runs on banks began in New York
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economic depression.
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Ohio created two navigable, all-water links from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
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1.7 million Irish fled starvation and the oppressive English policies that accompanied it
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labor activists organized to limit working hours and protect children in factories.
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Ten-Hour Movement
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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of a union
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child labor became a dominant issue in the American labor movement.
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Samuel Morse had persuaded Congress to fund a forty-mile telegraph line stretching from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
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Germans fled declining agricultural conditions and repercussions of the failed revolution
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nativism spawned its own political party
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Know-Nothing Party even nominated candidates for president
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Immigration declined
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Depressions devastated the economy
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Americans had laid more than thirty thousand miles of railroads.