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The Capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
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Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third President of the United States
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The United States paid France for the Louisiana Territory which expands west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains causing the US to double in size.
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The exploration in search of a route to the Pacific Ocean.
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James Madison is elected as the fourth United States President.
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James Monroe is elected as the fifth President of the United States.
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John Quincy Adams is elected at the sixth President of the United States
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Andrew Jackson is elected as the seventh United States President.
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Texas gains independence from Mexico.
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Martin Van Buren is elected as the eighth United States President.
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Intentions of spreading all the way to the West Coast
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James K. Polk is elected as the eleventh United States President.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and begins to help others do the same
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Zachary is elected as the twelfth President but soon dies and is replaced by the Vice President.
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Franklin Pierce is elected as the fourteenth United States President.
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James Buchanan is elected the fifteenth United States President.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the sixteenth United States President.
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conflict Between North and south over the expansion of slavery into western states begins
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Jefferson Davis is elected President
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All slaves are freed from the confederate states.
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conflict Between North and south over the expansion of slavery into western states ends
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Vice President Andrew Johnson took on the role of President.
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Prohibiting slavery in every state
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Ulysses S Grant is elected as the eighteenth United States President.
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Central and union Pacific railroads are conjoined.