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The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France. This was a very inexpensive purchase and doubled the size of America at that time.
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America fought against England for the second time because of international issues in which England and America ideas were conflicting.
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This act, passed by Congress, made Indians leave their homes east of the Mississippi in order to move to land in the West provided by the government.
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Runs on banks occurred all over America. Banks ran out of money and could no longer fulfill bank notes. This led to an overall economic depression.
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A contractor named James W. Marshall found gold on John Sutter's sawmill land in the Sacramento Valley area of the California Territory. This started a gold rush in the West.
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Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office on this date. He won the Presidential election even though he received only 40 percent of the popular vote and no southern votes in the Electoral College.
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The North (Union) fought the South (Confederates) over slavery and other arguments. Eventually the Union defeated the Confederates.
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This battle along the Tennessee River was one of the deadliest battles in the Civil War. It was also the costliest single battle in American history up to that time. The Union was victorious, but there was approximately twenty-three thousand casualties. It ended the next day, April 7, 1862.
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This battle near the town of Sharpsburg was the first major battle of the Civil War to be fought on Union soil. It was also the bloodiest single day in American history, as over twenty thousand soldiers were either killed, wounded, or missing.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a document written by Abraham Lincoln which declared all of the slaves free.
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While watching the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next morning.
