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SECOND CENSUS
the number of people counted in the states -
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The 1810 United States elections occurred in the middle of Democratic-Republican President James Madison's first term -
ALIEN and SEDITION ACTS
These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
LOUISIANA TERRITORY PURCHASED
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
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 -
IMPORTATION of AFRICAN SLAVES BANNED BY CONGRESS
United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution -
WAR of 1812
ought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights -
BRITISH BURN WASHINGTON, D.C. INCLUDING THE WHITE HOUSE
Burning of Washington, 1814. On August 24, 1814, as the War of 1812 raged on, invading British troops marched into Washington and set fire to the U.S. Capitol, the President's Mansion, and other local landmarks. -
BRITISH DEFEATED AT BATTLE of NEW ORLEANS
The Battle of New Orleans was the last major battle of the War of 1812. It happened on January 8, 1815, although it was preceded by smaller skirmishes. Under the command of General Andrew Jackson, American forces successfully repelled the invading British army -
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. The election was the last in which the Federalist Party fielded a presidential candidate. -
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 -
VESEY UPRISING
was allowed to purchase his freedom with $600 he had won in a street lottery. -
MONROE DOCTRINE
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas -
ANDREW JACKSON ELECTED PRESIDENT
Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 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 SPOILS SYSTEM
the president appoints civil servants to government jobs specifically because they are loyal to him and to his political party -
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands -
NAT TURNER REBELLION
was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, some slaves were killed -
ANDREW JACKSON
The 1832 United States presidential election was the 12th quadrennial presidential election -
TEXAS REVOLUTION
Texas rebelled against to Mexican government -
TRAIL OF TEARS
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocation of Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States -
MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent -
COMPROMISE of 1850
United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
