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The biggest real estate investment made by a president and cost $15 million.
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The commercial steamboat service was established by Robert Fulton to offer service up and down the Hudson River in New York
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To avoid wars, American ports are ordered to close by President Jefferson.
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In two different cases, American interests conflicted with those of the British Empire. The first had to do with the nation’s desire to maintain its position as a neutral trading nation during the series of Anglo-French wars, which began in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1793. The second had older roots in the colonial and Revolutionary eras.
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The United States victory over the United Kingdom.
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First, Congress would admit Missouri as a slave state. Second, Congress would admit Maine as a free state. Third, the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory would be divided along the southern border of Missouri. Slavery would be prohibited in other new states north of this line, but it would be permitted in new states to the south. The compromise passed both houses of Congress, and the Missouri Crisis ended peacefully.
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John Quincy Adams was a New England politician and had previously served as secretary of state under President James Monroe.
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John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay were running for office. Jackson won more popular votes than anyone else. But with no majority winner in the Electoral College, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. Adams convinces Clay to support him. Jackson and his supporters accused Adams of engineering a “corrupt bargain” with Clay to circumvent the popular will.
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New York State completed the 350-mile-long human-made waterway linking the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Indian removal was accomplished through the Trail of Tears, the tragic forced removal of Native Americans to territories west of the Mississippi River. -
Nat Turner, inspired by his faith, led the deadliest slave rebellion in the antebellum South. -
Manifest destiny was a widely held but vaguely defined belief that dated back to the founding of the nation. First, American values and institutions justified moral claims to hemispheric leadership. Second, the lands on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River were destined for American-led political and agricultural improvement. Third, God and the Constitution ordained destiny to accomplish redemption and democratization throughout the world.
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Seneca Falls Convention was a two-day summit in New York state in which women’s rights advocates came together to discuss the problems facing women.
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A party that reflected a widespread anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant sentiment.
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The Fugitive Slave Act penalized officials who failed to arrest runaways and private citizens who tried to help them.
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The South was home to nearly 4 million enslaved people by 1860, amounting to more than 45 percent of the entire Southern population.
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Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The American Civil War had begun. -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln propelled Vice President Andrew Johnson into the executive office in April 1865
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Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, which legally abolished slavery.
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President Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first federal attempt to constitutionally define all American-born residents (except Native peoples) as citizens.
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The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was organized in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. The Klan drew heavily from the antebellum southern elite. The Klan’s reputation became so potent, and its violence so widespread, that many groups not formally associated with it were called Ku Kluxers, and to “Ku Klux” meant to commit vigilante violence.
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