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Mississippi River wanted for the importance of trade & transport, Napolean sells land for $15 million to Jefferson who has Congress approve.The territory (about 800,000 square miles) almost doubles the size of the United States.
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the new land moving up the Missouri River and head west.
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A 32 month war between the United States and the British Empire resulting many issues including trade restrictions, the impressment of American merchant sailors, Britch support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, and insults to national honor.
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Admits Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; prohibits slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat.
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A Presbyterian minister in upstate New York persuaded thousands to publicly declare their revived faith by appealing to people's emotions and fear of damnation.
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Major transportation achievement
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"Jacksonian Era"
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Began a gradual emancipation with writing about the connection between religion and slavery.
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A Baptist slave preacher leads revolt in Virginia killing at least 57 whites.
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Profits, prices and wages went down while unemployment went up; "speculative lending practices in western states, a sharp decline in cotton prices, a collapsing land bubble, international specie flows, and restrictive lending policies in Great Britain were all to blame."
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Preacher William Miller gained ten thousands of followers to believe that the world was to end with the second coming of Christ on this day.
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An early woman's rights convention in New York, Seneca Falls organized by Lucretia Mott
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California becomes a free state, the new New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory will be decided under popular sovereignty to be slave/free state, stricker Fugitive Slave law, the slave trade banned in Washington D.C.