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In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson won the presidency.
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In 1803 Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from the French.
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In the election of 1808, James Madison won the presidency.
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In 1814 Francis Cabot Lowell created the first power loom in America.
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In the election of 1816, James Monroe won the presidency.
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In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won the presidency.
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In 1825 the Erie Canal in New York was built.
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In the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson won the presidency.
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In 1831 the Trail of Tears, a time when Native Indians were pushed west, began.
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In 1831 Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper.
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In 1831 Nat Turner led the most well-known slave rebellion.
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In the election of 1836, Martin Van Buren won the presidency.
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In 1837 John Deere invented the first steel plow.
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In the election of 1840, William Henry Harrison won the election, however, he died only a month after assuming the presidency.
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In 1841 John Tyler assumed the presidency.
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In the election of 1844, James Polk won the presidency.
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In 1848 gold was discovered in California.
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In the election of 1848, Zachary Taylor won the presidency.
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The Compromise of 1850 included five laws: the Fugitive Slave Act, the admission of California as a free state, the resolution of the boundary conflict, the abolition of the slave trade in D.C., and the organization of the lands gained from Mexico.
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In 1850 Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency.
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In the election of 1852, Franklin Pierce won the presidency.
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In the election of 1856, James Buchanan won the presidency.
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In 1859 John Brown charged towards Harper's Ferry hoping local slaves would join him.
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In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the presidency.
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Following Abraham Lincoln's election, most southern states succeeded from the Union.
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In 1865 Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency.
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In the election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant won the presidency.
