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Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican rule. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. -
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Their mission was to explore the unknown territory, establish trade with the Natives and affirm the sovereignty of the United States in the region. One of their goals was to find a waterway from the US to the Pacific Ocean. -
Importation of African Slaves Banned by Congress
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. -
War of 1812
U.S. versus Great Britain. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s attacks on American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. -
British Burn Washington D.C. Including the White House
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada. -
British Defeated at the Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was between British troops and American forces. Despite being outnumbered 2:1, the Americans, who had constructed sophisticated earthworks, won a decisive victory against the British assault. -
James Monroe Elected President
In the first election following the end of the War of 1812, Democratic-Republican candidate James Monroe defeated Federalist Rufus King. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. -
Vesey Uprising
After one loyal slave told his master about a plot to seize the city of Charleston, South Carolina and kill all the whites, local authorities exposed the most comprehensive slave plot in the history of the United States. Denmark Vesey bought his own freedom and planned a revolt for slaves. -
Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. -
Tariff of Abominations
The 1828 Tariff of Abominations was the third protective tariff implemented by the government. The protective tariffs taxed all foreign goods, to boost the sales of US products and protect Northern manufacturers from cheap British goods. -
Andrew Jackson Elected President
Andrew Jackson versus Henry Clay.
The election of 1828, where Andrew Jackson won, showed the growth of democracy because of the huge expansion of voting rights to almost all white men, and it established the two party electoral system which is still used even today. -
Andrew Jackson Spoils System
"The Spoils System" was the name given to the practice of hiring and firing federal workers when presidential administrations changed in the 19th century. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. -
Andrew Jackson
Jackson won re-nomination with no opposition, and the 1832 Democratic National Convention replaced Vice President John C. Calhoun with Martin Van Buren. -
Texas Revolution
Texas Revolution, also called War of Texas Independence, War fought between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas. -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
Mexican American War
Mexico versus U.S.A. U.S. President James K. Polk believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean, he wanted to annex Texas. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws passed in 1850 that dealt with the controversial issue of slavery in the United States. It put an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and made it easier for Southern slave owners to recover runaway slaves.
