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Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated for his first term as President of the United States.
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The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was the purchase of the territory of Louisiana bought by the US from France.
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The Embargo Act was President Thomas Jefferson ’s nonviolent resistance to British and French disturbance of U.S. merchant ships that were carrying, or were suspected of carrying, any war materials to European aggressors during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The War of 1812 was a conflict between the US and the UK that was brought on by restrictions on US trade that resulted from the British blockade of French and allied ports during the Napoleonic Wars. It finally came to an end when a treaty was formed that gave back all conquered territories to their rightful owners before the initial outbreak of war.
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The Adams-Onis Treaty was a negotiation that was between the United States and Spain, signed in 1819, and formed the south border of the Louisiana Purchase. One part of the agreement was that the United States received the territory of present-day Florida.
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The Black Hawk War was brief rebellion headed by a Sauk leader named Black Hawk.
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The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line that was built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the eastern U.S. rail network which was at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
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In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful call on a telephone.