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Events 1810-1840
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War of 1812
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Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery.
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Thomas Gallaudet founds a school for people with hearing impairments.
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Denmark Vesey planned a rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina but his plan was found out and he was stopped
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The U.S. and Great Britain signed an agreement to continue joint occupation of Oregon Country.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
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Nat Turner was executed
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John Pendleton Kennedy wrote a novel about plantation life called Swallow Barn
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Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain was born in Missouri
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John Deere invented the steel bladed plow
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Horace Mann becomes the first secretary of education in Massachusetts.
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Tennessee produced about 45 million bushels of corn
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William Henry Harrison is elected president