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Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president of the U.S.
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US payed $15 million to France in order to receive territory which extends west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
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Lewis and Clark set out to explore the unknown territories of the Louisiana purchase.
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U.S declared war on Britain over Britain's interference and prevention of American shipping to Europe and over their interference of America's westward expansion.
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Spain cedes Florida to America
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Construction began on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This is the first public railroad in the U.S. It was a key factor in America's westward expansion and it made trade much easier and less expensive. This threw America into the Industrial Revolution as well as changed the face of this once primitive land.
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Mexican War took place in America's effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest.
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Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. After news spread that gold had been discovered there, thousands of Americans dropped everything they had and moved to California
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
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The Civil War was the conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states and over the preservation of the Union. This war was had a higher fatality rate out of all of the wars fought in America combined. This sad event shaped our government for the better and opened the eyes of Americans to the brutality of slavery.
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After South Carolina seceded, many other states seceded and formed the Confederacy.
