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Haitian Revolution
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Thomas Jefferson elected President
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Revolution of 1800
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Gabriel’s Rebellion
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Sedition & Alien Acts expired
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US purchases Louisiana Territory from French for $15 million
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British outlaw slavery
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Embargo Act
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British attack USS Chesapeake
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First commercial steamboat service up and down Hudson River
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Ban on slave importation
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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War of 1812 between US and Britain
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US Launched first offensive against Canada – Detroit & Michigan Territory
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371-ton steam ship called the New Orleans able to sail down and UP the Mississippi River
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Napoleon defeated
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Washington D.C. burned
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Treaty of Ghent
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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Discovery of Gossypium barbadense—often called Petit Gulf cotton
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Missouri Compromise
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5 million immigrants arrived in US
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Mexico independence from Spain
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Monroe Doctrine
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John Quincy Adams elected President
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Erie Canal completed
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Carpenters Union formed
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First US long distance rail line (B&O Rail Company)
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Andrew Jackson elected President
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Tariff of Abominations
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Nullification Crisis
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David Walker writes "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"
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Book of Mormon published by Joseph Smith
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Indian Removal Act
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Black Hawk War
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Martin Van Buren became President
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Treaty of New Echota
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Texas Revolution
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Unitarians founded the Transcendental Club
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Great Petition Campaign
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Texas independence from Mexico
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Panic of 1837
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Trail of Tears
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Political abolitionists formed the Liberty Party
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Ten-Hour Movement
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John Tyler becomes President
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President John Tyler dies
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Child Labor became dominant issue
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Samuel Morse persuaded congress to fund 40 mile telegraph line
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Manifest Destiny
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Texas joins United States
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Mr. Polk’s War
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Gold discovered in California
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published her best-selling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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Gadsden Purchase
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Americans had laid 30,000 miles of railroad
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4 million enslaved people
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Abraham Lincoln elected President
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South Carolina secedes
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Southern States secede - Florida; January 10, Alabama; January 11, Georgia; January 19, Louisiana; January 26, Texas; February 1
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Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter
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Battle of Bull Run
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First Confiscation Act, Congress abolished the institution of slavery in the District of Columbia
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Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, effectively emancipating slaves that came under Union control.
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Battle of Antietam
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Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign
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Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect– emancipating slaves under Confederate control
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Battle of Chancellorsville
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“Stonewall” Jackson killed by friendly fire
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New York City Draft Riots
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Sherman captures Atlanta
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Lincoln re-elected
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End of Civil War
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John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson became President
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Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery
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Fourteenth Amendment adoped
