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moved from Philadelphia to DC
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Greatly expands power of Court
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Bought from France for 15 million, nearly doubles the US size. Extends from the Mississippi to the Rockies.
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Lewis and Clark set out to map out the new terrain.
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Madison is inaugurated as fourth president.
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US declares war on Britain for interference with shipping.
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Treaty that ends the War of 1812
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gives right to Congress to establish a national bank
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an effort to keep the balance of free and slave states, Missouri becomes a slave state
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America is off limits by European Powers
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Continental Congress adopts the first US constituion
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Congresś right to regulate interstate commerce
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Forces all Native Americans out of US territory
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more than 15,000 Cherokees are forced to move
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US declares war on Mexico in effort to gain California
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Mexico recognizes Rio Grande as boundary and US gains California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and parts of Wyoming and Colorado
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convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y.
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U.S acquires border territory from Mexico for 10 million.
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Lincoln is elected President
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South Carolina secedes from the union.
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Many Southern states leave and form their own country.
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The North and South go at it over the expansion of slavery
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Battle of Gettysburg is fought
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Freeing slaves in the Confederate
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Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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Slavery is prohibited
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US buys Alaska for 7.2 million
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Allows blacks to vote.