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Haitian Revolution
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Thomas Jefferson; President
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Louisiana Purchase
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Thomas Jefferson; Elected Again
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Embargo Act
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Hudson River Steam Boat service
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James Madison; President
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The Transportation Revolution Starts
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The War of 1812
The War of 1812 stemmed from American entanglement in two distinct sets of international issues. The first had to do with the nation’s desire to maintain its position as a neutral trading nation during the series of Anglo-French wars, which began in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1793. -
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The War of 1812
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James Madison; Elected Again
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American Espionage Peak
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James Monroe; President
James Monroe becomes president -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
James Monroe; Elected Again
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John Quincy Adams; President
John Quincy Adams becomes President -
Erie Canal Completed
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First Long Distance Rail Line
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Andrew Jackson; President
Andrew Jackson becomes President -
Indian Removal Act
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 -
Nat Turners Revolution
Turner led the most deadly slave rebellion in the antebellum South. On the morning of August 22, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner and six collaborators attempted to free the region’s enslaved population. Turner initiated the violence by killing his enslaver with an ax blow to the head. By the end of the day, Turner and his band, which had grown to over fifty men, killed fifty-seven white men, women, and children on eleven farms -
Andrew Jackson; Elected Again
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The Second Seminole War
The Second Seminole War (1835–1842) -
Martin Van Buren; President
Martin Van Buren becomes President -
The Panic of 1837 Begins
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William Henry Harrison; President
William Henry Harrison becomes President -
John Tyler; Gains Presidency
John Tyler; Gains Presidency -
Telegraph Line D.C. To Baltimore
y 1843 Samuel Morse had persuaded Congress to fund a forty-mile telegraph line stretching from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. -
James K. Polk; President
James K. Polk becomes President -
Texas Becomes a State
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Mr. Polk’s War
In the early fall of 1846, the U.S. Army invaded Mexico on multiple fronts and within a year’s time General Winfield Scott’s men took control of Mexico City. Peace finally came on February 2, 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Zachary Taylor; President
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Millard Fillmore; Gains Presidency
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Franklin Pierce: President
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James Buchanan: President
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South Carolina Seceeds
On December 20, 1860, the South Carolina convention voted unanimously 169–0 to dissolve their union with the United States. -
Abraham Lincoln: President
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Most South-Eastern States Seceed
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The Civil War
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Andrew Johnson; President
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Ulysses S. Grant; President
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Ulysses S. Grant; Elected Again