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Steamboats
In 1807 inventor Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont traveled up the Hudson River. Aaron Ogden's purchase of Fulton's state monopoly to operate steamboats was brought to the Supreme Court. -
The Start of the War of 1812!!
The war of 1812 was a conflict between the United States of America and the British Empire. The U.S got involved for many reasons one is expanding the United states territory. There were problems with trade and the British Empire also. -
The War of 1812 Ends!!
The war of 1812 has officially ended. America was Happy because we had won the war of 1812. Yay! America won. We've made history. -
The Missouri Compromise
To prevent the addmission of Missouri from upsetting this balance, Congress approved the Missouri Compromise in 1820. The agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the Missouri souhern boundry. -
Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. -
American system
Henry clay a representative of Kentuckyproposed a plan known as the American System. This system would establish stonger protective tariffs to aid and encourage industrial development. the plan would also fund a national transportation system. -
Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party
More adult white males gained suffrage. Such voters helped Andrew Jackson to become the seventh president of the United States of America. His supporters began to refer to themselves as Democrats and became the Democratic Party. -
The Underground Railroad
Slaves used a network called the underground railroad. Some slaves would fake illness, or work slowly, and some ran away and tried to gain their freedom. A successful slave Harriet Tubman was the most famous. She helped lots of slaves escape and be free and she never lost a person.
