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U.S. GOVT. UNDER THE CONSTITUTION BEGINS
Washington becomes the First President and is said to have been excellent by the people. U.S. is neutral after the French revolution. -
FIRST CENSUS
A good majority of the population was enslaved African Americans. Petition by Quakers is the first to congress to free slaves. -
SECOND CENSUS
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WHISKEY REBELLION
Farmers protest the tax on whiskey. U.S. defeats Shawnee Indians -
BILL OF RIGHTS IS RATIFIED
Vermont becomes the fourteenth state. Benjamin Banneker wants Jefferson to have the Declarations main ideas to apply to the slaves as well. -
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Washington and Adams are re-elected to be President and vice President. -
NORTHWEST TERRITORY
New land opens up after Indian defeat. Tennessee becomes sixteenth state. -
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
John Adams, who is a Federalist, defeats Thomas Jefferson, a Republican, for President. Washington leaves and delivers his Farewell Address. -
"QUASI WAR"
Bribe from France towards U.S. Building tension between the nations. -
ALIEN & SEDATION ACTS
Deportation of "dangerous aliens". Jefferson and Madison opposed it and published resolutions saying so. -
BARBARY WAR BEGINS
Jefferson responds to Tripoli declaring war by sending ships to the Mediterranean Sea. Declaration of Independence has 25th anniversary celebration. -
LOUISIANA TERRITORY
Louisiana is bought from the French for fifteen million. -
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Their expedition in St. Louis. Ohio becomes the seventeenth state. Samuel Adam dies at age eighty-one in Boston. -
BAN ON SLAVE TRADE
The Congress abolishes slave trade and made it required by the constitution. Embargo on France and Britain for interferring with U.S. trade. -
WAR OF 1812
U.S. declares war on Britain over borders, trade, freedom of the seas, and the rights of neutrals. Louisiana becomes eighteenth state. -
WAR OF 1812 ENDS
The War of 1812 ended when the Treaty of Ghent -
FIRST SEMINOLE WAR
Settlers in Florida and Georgia are attacked. Mississippi becomes twentieth state. -
McCULLOCH V. MARYLAND
U.S. gets Florida from Spain in the Adams-Onis treaty. Alabama becomes twenty-second state. -
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
Ban on slavery in Louisiana but allows Missouri to stay a slave state. Maine becomes twenty-third state. -
MONROE DOCTINE
Europe is warned not to mess with western hemisphere problems. cotton mills begin production in Lowell, Massachusetts with machines powered by water.
