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Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third president in Washington
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United States signs treaty to to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, which extends west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
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War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain. It was mostly because of the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, as well as disagreements over trade, western expansion, and Native American policy.
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James Monroe becomes the fifth president.
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This was an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine was admitted as a free state so that Missouri could be admitted as a slave state I think.
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The AOC basically established how the national government of the United States would work after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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President Jackson gave the Indian Removal Act, which removed Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to the west of the Mississippi River
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President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. This changed history forever.
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Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote
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Alexander Bell patents the telephone, this is a huge milestone for the industrial revolution and it is the first way to ever communicate besides on paper.