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An act of February 28, 1800 authorized the second census of the United States to include the states and territories northwest of the Ohio River and Mississippi Territory.The guidelines for the 1800 enumeration followed those of the first census, with only minor alterations in the law. They also put the indians,free black people,slaves and white people in age categories.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.These laws raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years and authorized the President to deport, arrest, imprison immigrants during wartime
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France in which the U.S.bought 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. Out of anger towards Spain and the unique opportunity to sell something that was not truly his yet, Napoleon sell the entire territory.Napoleon sold it also because they needed money for the war.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States. It began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to westward, and passed through the Continental Divide of the Americas to reach the Pacific coast. The Corps of Discovery was a group of US Army volunteers that were under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close fried Clark.
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The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States.This legislation was promoted by President Thomas Jefferson.By passing the law in March, Congress gave slave traders nine months to close down their operations in the United States.
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The war started in 1812.The United States and Great Britain fought because British was violating the U.S. maritime rights.The war ended in december 24,1814.
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On August 24, 1814, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already fled to safety in Maryland. They returned 3 days later after the british troops moved on.
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Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orland.It was its greatest batlle field victory of the war of 1812 of the united states.New Orleans gave the United states a greater respect for American rights at sea, which the British routinely violated in their search for victory against France in the Napoleonic Wars
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James Monroe was the president during the "good feeling era".
He was going against Rufus King
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The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to keep a balance between the number of slave states and the number of free states in the Union.It also allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state.The Missouri Compromise faild at the end because of a slave problem.
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Vesey was a self-educated black who planned the most extensive slave revolt in U.S. history
He won his freedom by paying $600 he had won in a lottery
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The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere.
The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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It was the 3rd protective tariff implimented by the government.
The protective tariffs taxed all foreign goods to boost the sales of US products and protect northern manufacturers from cheap British goods.
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Andrew Jackson was the 7th president elected .He won a plurality of electoral votes in the election of 1824.Andrew Jackson also rose to national prominence as Major General in the War of 1812.
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The Spoils System" was to being able of hiring and firing federal workers when presidential administrations changed in the 19th century.This began during the administration of President Andrew Jackson.The Pendleton Act ended the spoil system.
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The Indian Removal Act law was signed by Andrew Jackson. Jackson conviense the congress to let him grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands. This law gave the federal government the right to relocate the indians tribes to another place
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Nat Turner led a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.This rebellion was pone of the biggestslaves rebellion in the united states. it led to the development of antebellum slave society.
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Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States.Before being president he served as generald of the united states army.He also served in both houses of the united states.
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Tejanos didnt whant to accept the governmental changes mandated by "Siete Leyes" which placed almost total power in the hands of the Mexican national government and Santa Anna.Texas was fighting for its independence.Finally, the Treaties of Velasco ended the war
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As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River.
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Texas gained its independence in 1836. This war formed becuase northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state.Mexicpo was force to oetition for peace so the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war
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The Compromise of 1850 was five separate bills passed by the United States Congress. It defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.Also a fugitive law was passed that made northern returned run away slaves under penalty law.
