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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Post Office Act of 1792
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Eli Whitney Patents Cotton Gin
Cotton is hard to get seeds out
Cotton Gin separates cotton and seeds
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President Thomas Jefferson
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Louisiana Purchase
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President James Madison
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War of 1812
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Second Bank of United States
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President James Monroe
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Construction of Erie Canal
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Trains Invented and Developed
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President John Quincy Adams
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President Andrew Jackson
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Cyrus Hall McCormick Patents Mechanical Reaper
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President Martin Van Buren
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Immigration
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Germans: 1.5 million
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President John Tyler
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President William Henry Harrison
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Rainbow, the first clipper ship, built
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President James K. Polk
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President Zachary Taylor
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43% of American Population is Foreign Born
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President Millard Fillmore
Last whig president. -
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President Franklin Pierce
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President James Buchanan
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President Abraham Lincoln
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President Andrew Johnson
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President Ulysses S. Grant