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Thomas Jefferson purchases 828,000 sq miles for $15 million from Napoleon Bonapart. With this purchase, the United States practically doubled practically overnight. -
This was the first major war after the United States gained its freedom. The United States fought the exact county that they gained their independence from.
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British Forces set fire to multiple government buildings. This was the only time in America's history that a foreign power has occupied the capital. -
Trying to balance free and slave states, Main is admitted as a free state, while Missouri is admitted as a slave state. -
Nat Turner is an enslaved African-American Preacher that led a four-day rebellion of other enslaved African-Americans. The rebellion was unsuccessful and repressed by local militias as well as members of the United States Navy. Turner was captured, tried, and was hanged for the uprising. -
The trail was over 5,000 miles from Georgia to Oklahoma, in which there were over 60,000 Native Americans displaced from their homeland. -
The first time Manifest Destiny appears is in a written article by JOhn O'Sullivan. Manifest Destiny is the idea that United States expansion was inevitable. -
Texas became the 28th state to join the United States of America. -
South Carolina becomes the first southern state to secede from the Union. After South Carolina, ten other states seceded from the Union thus starting the Civil War.m -
After four long years, General Lee of the Confederate army surrendered to General Grant of the Union. This action signifies the end of the American Civil War.