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President Thomas Jefferson was elected
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the territory of Louisiana was purchased
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war between Britain and U.S.
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decision by the Supreme Court, imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland
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allowed the admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a free state
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President Andrew Jackson elected
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newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison
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U.S. political crisis during Jackson presidency
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Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America
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Emerson publishes Self-Reliance
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Dorthea Dix visits her first jail with insane inmates
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Frederick Douglass publishes his autobiography
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Frederick Douglass publishes his Autobiography
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a woman's rights convention–the first ever held in the United States
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used to track down runaway slaves
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anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Thoreau publishes Walden
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Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
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the decision made that Dredd Scott was not free even in a free state
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abolitionist raids ferry in hopes to end slavery
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President Abraham Lincoln was elected
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Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter
