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The American Revolution to the Civil War
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Reading of a letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams
"reading of a letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams [:38]." Audio. West Educational Publishing/Perry-Castaneda Library. American Government. ABC-CLIO, 1776. Web. 31 Mar. 1776. -
The American flag
According to the legend, George Washington himself approached Elizabeth Ross in 1777 and asked her to create a flag from a sketch he drew. She then sewed this first flag for the new country. -
1780 Constitution
Massachusetts' Constitution was adopted in 1780. The following are excerpts from the 1780 Constitution -
Election
The election of 1800 was particularly important because it was the first election in which power was peacefully transferred from one national political party to another. -
United States Presidental election
The United States presidential election of 1820 was the 9th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Wednesday, November 1 to Wednesday, December 6, 1820. It was the third and last presidential election in United States history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed, although some votes were cast for the Federalists in New England (the previous two were the presidential elections of 1789 and 1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition). President James Monr -
United States Presdintal election
The United States presidential election of 1832 was the 12th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1832. It saw incumbent President Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily win re-election against Henry Clay of Kentucky, candidate of the National Republican Party, and Anti-Masonic Party candidate William Wirt. Jackson won 219 of the 286 electoral votes cast. John Floyd, who was not a candidate, received the electoral votes of -
United States Census
The United States Census of 1840 was the sixth census of the United States. Conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1840, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 17,069,453 — an increase of 32.7 percent over the 12,866,020 persons enumerated during the 1830 Census. The total population included 2,487,355 slaves. In 1840, the center of population was about 260 miles (418 km) west of Washington, near Weston, Virginia. -
Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. Because of the interconnectedness of the world economy by the time of the 1850s, the financial crisis that began in late 1857 was the world's first world-wide economic crisis.[1] In Britain, the Palmerston government circumvented the requirements of the Peel Banking Act of 1844, which required gold and silver reserves to back up the amount of mone -
Civil war awakening
The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming), was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after several[3] Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South").
