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Lousiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson purchases 828,000 sq miles for $15 million from Napoleon Bonapart. With this purchase, the United States practically doubled practically overnight. -
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War or 1812
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. -
Burning of Washington
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. -
Missouri Compromise
Trying to balance free and slave states, Main is admitted as a free state, while Missouri is admitted as a slave state. -
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
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. -
Trail of Tears
The trail was over 5,000 miles from Georgia to Oklahoma, in which there were over 60,000 Native Americans displaced from their homeland. -
Manifest Destiny
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 is Annexed
Texas became the 28th state to join the United States of America. -
Start of Civil War
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 -
End of Civil War
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.