Chapter 8 timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1801	Judiciary Act of 1801	Created several new circuits and sixteen new judgeships.
11/08/1801	Barbary War	was the first of two wars fought between the United States of America and the North African Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States.
01/01/1802	Military	Jefferson created the Army Corps of Engineers and the military academy at West Point.
01/01/1803	Louisiana Purchase	Was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana.
01/01/1804	Lewis and Clark Expedition	was the first overland expedition undertaken by the United States to the Pacific coast and back.
10/21/1805	Battle of Trafalgar	was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy,
01/01/1807	Embargo Act	American laws restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade 1807 and 1812.
01/01/1807	Steamship	Robert Fulton sailed the first American steamship up the Hudson River.
01/01/1807	Slavery	Great Britain outlawed slavery.
06/22/1807	Chesapeake–Leopard Affair	the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate Chesapeake.
01/01/1809	Act	A desperate act passed that prohibited the loading of any U.S. vessel.
03/01/1809	Non-Intercourse Act	The United States Congress replaced the Embargo Act of 1807 with the almost unenforceable Non-Intercourse Act of March 1809. This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.
01/01/1810	Census	Census counted 7240000 Amercians in the United States
05/01/1810	Macon's Bill Number 2	Was intended to motivate Britain and France to stop seizing American vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.
06/01/1812	Declaration of War	War Hawks sent Congress a declaration of war against Great Birtain.
06/18/1812	War of 1812	a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire
01/01/1814	British stragedy	Britsih strategists planned to increase pressure on three seperate fronts.
03/27/1814	Battle of Horseshoe Bend	was fought during the War of 1812 in central Alabama. On United States forces and Indian allies under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe inspired by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, effectively ending the Creek War.
11/08/1814	Hartford Convention	an event in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England's opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the United States was discussed.
12/24/1814	Treaty of Ghent	The peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.