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The electors' votes for president are officially opened and counted in Congress, which already knows that the vote is tied between Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
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Louisiana Purchase in January.
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Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean.
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Jefferson nominates James Monroe and William Pinckney as joint commissioners to Great Britain.
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Abraham Lincoln was born.
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War of 1812 with Britain has started.
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British burn Capitol building in Washington.
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Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers.
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Spain agrees to sell Florida to the United States.
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote.
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Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old.
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“Underground Railroad” is established.
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Texas declares independence from Mexico. WOOT WOOT!
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Martin van Buren elected President.
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More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Approximately 4,000 die from starvation and disease along the “Trail of Tears.”
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Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore.
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Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico.
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War with Mexico.
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America and Mexico sign Gadsden Treaty; Vice President William King dies; Arctic explorer Elisha Kane ventures farther north than any man has before.
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Free Soilers establish government banning slavery and blacks from Kansas.
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Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision.
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Lincoln Inaugurated.
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Battle of Fort Sumter.
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First battle of Bull Run.
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Battle of Shiloh.
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The Monitor and the Merrimac fight it out at the battle of Hampton Roads.
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The battle of Antietam.
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Battle of Vicksburg.
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Battle of Gettysburg.
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Lincoln shot, dies next day.
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Sherman's March to the sea.
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President Johnson impeached, acquitted.
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KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. Grant suspends habeas corpus and declared martial law.
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Civil Rights Act passed.