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The election resulted in a bitter loss for John Adams. Thomas Jefferson became the United States' third President.
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Gabriel, an enslaved man in Virginia planned to end slavery by rioting and capturing the Virginia Governor. Governor Monroe was able to stop the attacks. Gabriel was arrested and executed along with 25 others.
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Ruled that the Supreme Court reserved the right to decide whether an act of Congress violated the Constitution
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Jefferson authorized the acquisition of Louisiana from France
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Closed American ports to trade.
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War of 1812 was caused by the US desire to be a neutral trading nation, the US clashing with Britain, and British impressments on U.S. Sailors.
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a 371-ton ship was the first steamboat to navigate the internal waterways of the North American continent from one end to the other and remain capable of returning home.
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President Madison drafted a list of grievances with Great Britain and asked congress for a declaration of war. The Declaration of War was signed on June 18
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Federalists met in Hartford, CT to curb the power of the republican party
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returned relations between the United States and Britain to their prewar status
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Rufus King was the last Federalist to run president. He lost to James Monroe.
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Andrew Jackson as commander of the U.S. southern military district launched an invasion of Spanish-Owned Florida. They occupied Pensacola, arrested two British men, and executed them.
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This treaty between the US and Spain gave the US Florida
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This act offered $10,000 annually to be allocated toward societies that funded missionaries to establish schools among Native American tribes.
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In order for the US to agree to make Missouri a state, there were the following conditions: Congress would admit Missouri as a slave state, but they would also admit Maine as a free state, keeping the balance between free and slave states. They also divided the Louisiana Purchase Territory into free and slave states.
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Declared that the US considered its entire hemisphere off-limits to new European colonization
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The Erie Canal is a 350-mile long waterway connecting the Great Lakes, the Hudson River, and the Atlantic Ocean
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The first long-distance rail line launched from Maryland by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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granting the president authority to begin treaty negotiations that would give Native Americans land in the West in exchange for their lands east of the Mississippi
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Nat Turner and six collaborators attempted to free the region’s enslaved population. Tuner killed his enslaver with an ax blow to the head. Turner and what ended up being about 50 men, killed fifty-seven white men, women, and children on eleven farms
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The states quit supporting an official religious denomination
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Andrew Jackson directed his cabinet to stop depositing federal funds in the US Bank.
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the treaty ceded lands in Georgia for $5 million
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required payment in hard currency for all federal land purchases
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panicked customers scrambled to exchange their banknotes for hard currency
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the federal government drove Native Americans from their land on a more than 12,000 mile journey. It is estimated that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey.
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five hundred abolitionists who met together in England to work toward ending slavery
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After the passing of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler takes over as President
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Samuel Morse persuaded Congress to fund 40-mile telegraphy from D.C. to Baltimore
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