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Religious revival during early 19th century
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First peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another
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Est. principle of judicial review. Decided Feb. 24, 1803
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17th US State
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Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 Million. A total of 826,000 square miles.
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States President and VP run on one ticket. Ratified in 1804
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Robert Fulton responsible for creation, first one called Clermont
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James Madison Elected as 4th President
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Fought in Indiana and led on the American side by William Henry Harrison and Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
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18th state in US
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Conflict between the US and the British Empire which lasted 32 months.
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Battle fought between British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and US Army under Brevet Army Major General Andrew Jackson
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located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the second federally authorized Hamiltonian National Bank during its 20 year charter.
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James Monroe Elected as the 5th US President
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Legislation that added Maine to the Union as a free state while Missouri was a slave state to maintain balance of power between the north and south.
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US Policy opposing European colonization in America first stated by James Monroe to Congress
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John Quincy Adams elected as 6th US President
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Canal in New York that originally ran 363 miles from where Albany meets the Hudson River to where Buffalo meets Lake Eerie
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Protective tariff passed by Congress to protect industry in northern US.
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Andrew Jackson elected as 7th US President
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Created by Cyrus McCormick in 1831. Harvest crops mechanically.
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First real clipper was Ann McKim in 1832
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Passed during Nullification crisis and authorized Jackson to use military force against any state resisting protective tariffs.
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In present day Harris County, this battle was decisive in the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston against General Santa Anna's Mexican army. It lasted only 18 mintues.
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Martin Van Buren elected as 8th US President
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Invented by John Deere, a blacksmith in Illinois in 1837. IT was used for farming to break up tough soil without soil getting stuck to it.
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William Henry Harrison elected as 9th US President. He ran with John Tyler and defeated Van Buren.
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James K. Polk defeated Henry Clay to become 11th US P
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Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 to become the 28th State
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US army used artillery against Mexican Army forces in the Mexican-American War.
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U.S forces under General Winfield Scott invaded Mexico three miles south of Vera Cruz.
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Treaty that resolved peace and unity between the US and Mexican Republic
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General Zachary Taylor, a member of the Whig Party was elected as the 12th US President
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5 separate bills passed by Congress to diffuse political confrontation between free and slave states on status of new territories acquired during Mexican-American War.
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Following death of Zachary Taylor, Fillmore took office. He was not affiliated with either party.
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and is an anti-slavery novel.
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Franklin Pierce was elected as the 14th US President after defeating General Winfield Scott
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Act creating the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and it allowed people to decide whether to allow slavery inside state borders. This repealed the Missouri Compromise
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Written by Walt Whitman and it is a poetry collection.
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In response to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro slavery forces.
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James Buchanan won in a 3 way race and became the 15th US President.
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Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin were elected as President and Vice President. Lincoln was the 16th US President.
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South Carolina secedes from Union
During the presidential election of 1860, Southern leaders told the South to secede from the Union if Lincoln were to win the election because they believed Lincoln was an abolitionist. Abolitionists were people who worked to get rid of slavery. The South was afraid that Lincoln would outlaw slavery while in office. This would have created a problem for the South since its way of life depended on slaves. -
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union following Lincoln’s election. Soon after, five more states followed. Within six months, a total of eleven states had seceded from the Union.
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The First Battle of Bull Run, otherwise known as Manassas, saw its first major land battle on July 21st, 1861. The battle occurred on a small river known as Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia when a Union army of about 35,000 marched from Washington D.C. to attack the main Confederate army. After fighting on the defensive side for most of the day, the Confederates were able to rally together thanks to a brigade led by Thomas J. Jackson who earned his nickname “Stonewall” that day.
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Kansas was admitted as a free state, the 34th of the US.
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issues by Abraham Lincoln in which slaves were declared free.
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Though the emancipation of slaves was an impossible pill for some Confederates to swallow, Lincoln's plan was charitable, considering the costliness of the war. With the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Lincoln was seizing the initiative for reconstruction from Congress. Some Radical Republicans thought the plan was far too easy on the South, but others accepted it because of the president's prestige and leaders
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During the Atlanta Campaign, the 90,000 soldiers who marched in the summer of 1864, made 11 stops. Before they captured the city, President Lincoln’s reelection campaign had been in trouble. He was opposed by democrats in favor of a negotiated peace instead, however Lincoln still managed to win and the war continued until September of that year.
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Lincoln was reelected alongside Andrew Johnson as his Vice President and served until his assassination in April 1865.
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As the Civil War ended in 1865, Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, to help former slaves make the transition to freedom. Throughout the South, the Freedmen's Bureau established schools and hospitals, helped negotiate labor contracts, leased or sold confiscated lands to the freedmen, and generally tried to protect them from former masters.
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Following the assassination of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson took over in April 1865. He served from 1865-1869 as the 17th US President
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On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866. The first two words of the organization's name supposedly derived from the Greek word "kyklos," meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an "Invisible Empire of the South."
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The 14th amendment declared rights. It secured the rights of former slaves. The amendment provides a definition of citizenship.
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/ulysses S. Grant becomes the 18th US President.
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On May 10, 1875 the Treasury Department, led by Secretary Benjamin Bristow, seized distilleries in St. Louis, Chicago, Evansville and Milwaukee. For many years distilleries had bribed low-salaried revenue agents into looking the other away as they evaded paying millions in federal taxes. distilleries often extended up the hierarchy to the head offices of the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department.
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Battle between American and Mexican forces in which Mexican forces retreated by nightfall