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Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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To Elizabeth Jones Monroe.
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When James Monroe dropped out of college to join the Continental Army with Washington.
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Joins the Third Virginia Regiment.
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When he was elected to the Virginia Assembly and a year later he was a Member of the Congresses of the Confederation until the year 1786.
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First born child.
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He was elected a United States Senator, serving until 1794.
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To France under President Washington.
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Elected Governor of Virginia from 1799-1802.
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Second born child.
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The time where James Monroe Jr. died at infancy, six months later from birth.
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Under President James Madison.
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During the War of 1812.
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When James Monroe got his nickname "The Era of Good Feelings" president.
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When he, James Monroe, was elected president.
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The agreement limits naval capacity on the Great Lakes; in doing so, it alleviates possible tension between the two nations following the War of 1812. Each country is held to one ship on Lakes Champlain and Ontario, and two ships on all the other lakes.
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The tour gives birth to the designation of Monroe's administration as the “Era of Good Feelings.”
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Monroe enunciates a policy of neutrality towards the Latin American colonies seeking independence.
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The twentieth state in the union.
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Secretary of War John C. Calhoun orders General Andrew Jackson to quell Seminole Indian uprisings in the Floridas and southern Georgia; Jackson also receives a private letter from Monroe urging such action. In March 1818, Jackson pursues the Seminoles into Spanish Florida -- where he suspects they are receiving assistance -- takes the fort of St. Marks on March 6, forces the surrender of Fort Carlos de Barrancas, and executes, among others, a Scot Indian trader and a British lieutenant.
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The twenty-first state of the Union.
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The twenty-second state of the Union.
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The Panic of 1819 begins to take shape. A sharp decline in real estate values and a severe credit contraction (an inability to secure bank loans) inflates the currency and causes imports and prices to fall. In March, the price of cotton collapses in the English market. The conservative policies of the Second Bank of the United States, founded in 1816, accelerates the crisis, which ends around 1823.
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Elected a second time.
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Was the first to marry in the White House.
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The twenty-third state of the Union.
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President James Monroe formally articulated a foreign policy position that became known as the “Monroe Doctrine.”
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At sixty-seven, Monroe decides not to seek re-election in the presidential race -- a contest that is far more contentious than the previous one. Henry Clay, William Crawford, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and John C. Calhoun initially vie for nominations.
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John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth president of the United States.
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Marble Cemetery, New York, N.Y.; removed in 1858 to Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
