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Moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
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Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the #rd President.
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Supreme Court expands its power by establishing itself the right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
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Unites States pay France for the Louisiana Territory which expands west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains . As a result, the U.S. expands nearly double in size.
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Both men explore the West in search of a route to the Pacific Ocean.
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James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president.
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U.S. declares war on Britain over interference with shipping and westward expansion.
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signed and officially ended the War of 1812
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James Monroe is inaugurated as the fifth president.
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Spain agrees to give Florida to the Unties States.
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An effort to maintain the balance of free and slave states and slavery is prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase.
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President Monroe declares that European power can no longer colonize on American soil.
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John Quincy Adams is inaugurated
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Construction began and it would become to first public railroad in the United States.
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Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as the seventh president.
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President Jackson signed for all the Native Americans to be removed and forced to live west of the Mississippi River.
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Gain their Independence from Mexico.
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Martin Van Buren is inaugurated as the eighth president.
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15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Indian territory in Oklahoma.
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William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the ninth president.
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John L.Sullivan brought the term to the public eye with intentions of spreading all the way to the West Coast.
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James K Polk is inaugurated as the eleventh president.
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U.S. declares war on Mexico in hopes of gaining California and other territory. Ended with the signing of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Is found in California and the Gold Rush begins.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one the most effective members.
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Zachary is inaugurated as the twelfth president. Dies and is replaced by his Vice President.
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Franklin pierce is inaugurated as the fourteenth president of the United States.
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Congress passed the Act gaining the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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Supreme Courts reveals that they do not have the right to ban slavery in states and decides that slaves are not citizens.
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James Buchanan is the fifteenth president of the U.S.
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South Carolina secedes from the union and becomes the first state.
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Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the U.S.
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana all secede as well.
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Conflict between North and South over the expansion of slavery into western states.
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Virginia, Arkansas ,North Carolina ,and Tennessee secede from the union.
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Jefferson Davis is elected as president.
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All slaves or freed from the Confederate states.
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His role was taken by Vice President Andrew Johnson.
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Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia
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It was to prohibit slavery in every state.
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The US gained Alaska from Russia .
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Ulysses S Grant is inaugurated as the 18th President of the United States.
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Central and union pacific railroad or joined to create the first transcontinental railroad.
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Giving African-Americans the right to vote.
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George A Custers regiment was wiped out by Sioux Indians
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14th amendment defines citizenship.