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Election of Thomas Jefferson
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Britain and Napolean go to war
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Treaty of Lession
Thomas Jefferson used the treaty of Lession to obtain the Louisiana Territory -
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton Duel
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Presidential Election of James Madison
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Creation of the 12th Amendment
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Declaration of War against Britain
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Battle of Detroit
America surrendered without a shot -
Battle of Lake Erie
America won -
British defeat Napoleon
This allows Britain to focus on America -
Panic of 1819
First Major Depression -
John Quincy Adams Elected President
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Tariff of 1828
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Andrew Jackson Elected
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Nat Turners Rebellion
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Force Bill
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Martin Van Buren Elected President
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Panic of 1837
Financial Crisis -
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!!!
John Henry Tyler Elected as President -
Reduced Tariffs
Tariff rates reduced to levels of 1816 by 1842 -
The first organized wagon train leaves for Oregon
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James k. Polk Elected President
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Texas Becomes 28th State
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Battle of Beuna Vista
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Compromise of 1850
Included the Fugitive Slave Act, admitted California as a state, Resolved boundary disputes, abolished slave trade in DC, and established government in New Mexico -
Franklin Pierce Elected President
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nebraska was made a free state, but Kansas was more complicated -
James Buchanan Elected President
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Dred Scott vs. Stanford
Chief Justice Roger Taney declares that Negros -slave or free- could not be citizens of the United States -
Confedarate Staes of America Elect Jefferson Davis as their President
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Civil War Begins
General P. G. T. Beauregard fires upon Fort Sumter -
The Civil War Ends
General Lee Surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox Court House