1800-1900

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  • Thomas Jefferson becomes American President

    Thomas Jefferson becomes American President

    Thomas Jefferson was the third president elected in the United States. The election had a peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, served in two Continental Congresses, minister to France, secretary of state under President George Washington, and John Adam's vice president.
  • Louisiana Purchase- Napoleon sells Louisiana to America to finance his wars

    Louisiana Purchase- Napoleon sells Louisiana to America to finance his wars

    Napoleon showered the territory in front of the US on April 11, 1803. A treaty that was made on April 30th and signed May 2nd, was worked out to give Louisiana to the United States for $15 million.
  • Texas becomes part of America after wars with Mexico (1845-1848)

    Texas becomes part of America after wars with Mexico (1845-1848)

    The US oversaw the greatest territorial expansion when President James K. Polk was able to accomplish the annexation of Texas in 1845, negotiation of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848. Which ended with the signing and ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 48.
  • Abraham Lincoln becomes President of America

    Abraham Lincoln becomes President of America

    Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States until his murder on April 15, 1865.
  • Start of American Civil War

    Start of American Civil War

    At 4:30 am Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor, Later on, the Union forces surrendered.
  • Abraham Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address speech

    Abraham Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address speech

    Lincoln was in Gettysburg to dedicate a national military cemetery to the Union soldiers that lost their lives at the Battle of Gettysburg four months earlier.
  • Abolition of slavery in America

    Abolition of slavery in America

    Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, but was later ratified on December 6th, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States
  • The end of the American Civil War

    The end of the American Civil War

    Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

    Bell received a patent for his invention of the telephone. Bell found out how to transfer sound through a simple wire current.
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    The war took place after the USS Maine was blown up in Havana harbor by Spain.