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The Erie Canal was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
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The University of Virginia, frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public-private research university founded by Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson and located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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The American Temperance Society, also known as the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was a society established on February 13, 1826 in Boston, MA.
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On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for commercial transport of passengers and freight.
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Cyrus McCormick invented another significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming: the mechanical reaper. Prior to this invention, reaping was a painstaking process (done by hand with a scythe) that limited a farm's harvest.
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The steel plow was used in farming to break up tough soil without soil getting stuck in it.
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William Henry Harrison dies after being in office for four weeks. He got pnuemonia from giving a speech in the cold
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The Aroostook War was a confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the US state of Maine.
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The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.
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The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845–1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
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A war between the U.S. and Mexico resulting in the defeat of Mexico and the loss of approximately half of its national territory in the north.
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The Walker Tariff was enacted by the Democrats, and made substantial cuts in the high rates of the "Black Tariff" of 1842.
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The Battle of Buena Vista, also known as the Battle of Angostura, saw the United States Army use artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican Army in the Mexican–American War.
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The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections.
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The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
