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Thomas Jefferson gets sworn into office in Washington D.C. During Jefferson's presidency, he made huge accomplishments including things like the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act of 1807.
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This was a land deal between France and the United States in which the US acquired 827,000 miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. This was lead and made possible by the president Thomas Jefferson.
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The United States takes on the greatest power in the world, Great Britain in hopes of expanding their territory and severing the restrictions on U.S. trade. The war ended in the year 1815 with the Treaty of Ghent.
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The Erie Canal is a 363 mile-long waterway that was considered an engineering marvel. The canal advanced commercial and agricultural development and was the beginning of many new beginnings in the 1800s.
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Andrew Jackson is inagurated in Washington D.C. as the seventh president of the United States. In Jackson's presidency, he created the Democratic Party and also passed difficult acts like the Indian Removal Act
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The invention of the telegraph, by Samuel Morse, revolutionized communication for long-distance. The invention changed the way humans could communicate forever.
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Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper which made farming more efficient and lessened the amount of hands-on labor on plantations.
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The Manifest Destiny was a time of rapid expansion in the United States. Beginning in 1845, the advocates of this time used their power and their belief that God gave them dominion over the northern continent. After conflict and battle, the Manifest Destiny was fulfilled and the United States was at its current size.