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Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)
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Thomas Jefferson becomes President.
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Jefferson’s foreign policy, particularly the Embargo Act of 1807
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James Madison becomes president
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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 fruits of American industrial espionage peaked in 1813 when Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody re-created the powered loom used in the mills of Manchester, England.
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James Monroe becomes president
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
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John Quincy Adams becomes President
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Andrew Jackson becomes President
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Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830
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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
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The Second Seminole War (1835–1842)
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Martin Van Buren becomes President
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William Henry Harrison becomes President
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John Tyler; Gains Presidency
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y 1843 Samuel Morse had persuaded Congress to fund a forty-mile telegraph line stretching from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
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James K. Polk becomes President
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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.
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On December 20, 1860, the South Carolina convention voted unanimously 169–0 to dissolve their union with the United States.
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