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(e.g. war of 1812)
(john adams is not president anymore) -
(Louisiana Territory)
LOUISIANA TERRITORY is purchased from France for $15 million.
Louis and Clark expedition begins in St. Louis, Missouri.
Supreme Court declares its right to review constitutionality of acts of
Congress (judicial review) in Marbury v. Madison.
Ohio enters Union as 17th state. -
(12th Amendment)
Twelfth Amendment is ratified, providing for separate
election of president and vice president. -
(Robert Fulton)
(he designs first practical steam boat) -
(James Madison)
James becomes president -
(White house down)
British burn Washington, DC, including the White House.
U.S. wins Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor
(witness Francis Scott Key later writes “The Star-Spangled
Banner”). WAR ENDS with signing of Treaty of Ghent. -
(James Monroe)
James Monroe becomes president -
(John Q. Adams)
Adams became president of the United States -
(thomas jefferson)
Thomas Jefferson dies -
(Abe Lincoln)
Lincoln was elected to llinois state legislature -
(Davy crockett)
davy entered texas -
(Cherokee)
They moved the cherokee -
(John tyler)
the year john tyler became president -
(Flordia)
Flordia becomes a state -
(war)
Congress declares war on mexico -
Fredrick Douglass
Frederick Douglass delivers speech “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin. -
(Kansas)
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT passed by Congress, repealing the Missouri
Compromise and allowing Kansas and Nebraska settlers to decide status of
slavery in the territories.
Anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party is founded.
James G. Baldwin publishes Flush Times in Mississippi and Alabama.
George Fitzhugh publishes Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society.
Thoreau publishes Walden; or, Life in the Woods. -
(Kansas)
“BLEEDING KANSAS”: Intense local warfare erupts between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
Walt Whitman anonymously publishes Leaves of Grass. -
(Minnesota)
Minnesota enters Union as 32nd state.
Emancipation of serfs begins in Russia. -
(President)
Abe Lincoln is elected president