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The Second Seminole War began. Seminole fighter Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in central Florida.
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Signed on December 29, 1835, in New Echota, Georgia by officials of the United States government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, known as the Treaty Party.
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United States Whig Party held its first convention in Albany, New York.
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Siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.
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An Act To Incorporate The Boston Harbor Ice And Tow Boat Company.
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A treaty between the United States and representatives of the Ottawa and Chippewa nations of Native Americans. With this treaty, the tribes ceded an area of approximately 13,837,207 acres (55,997 km²) in the northwest portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the eastern portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Confirmed right of defendant in criminal case not to have judge render decision on motions until all arguments made, to defer making those arguments until the jury is empaneled, and to make those legal arguments to the jury.
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The procedure for the "gagging" of abolition petitions was made into a formal resolution by the House on May 26, 1836: "All petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid on the table and … no further action whatever shall be had thereon."
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The signatories were Interim President David G. Burnet for Texas and General Santa Anna for Mexico. The Treaties were intended, on the part of the Texans, to provide a conclusion of hostilities between the two belligerents and offer the first steps toward the official recognition of the breakaway Republic's independence.
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An Act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore
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President Andrew Jackson issued the Specie Circular, beginning the failure of the land speculation economy that would lead to the Panic of 1837.
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Early trade unions propose state minimum age laws.
Union members at the National Trades’ Union Convention make the first formal, public proposal recommending that states establish minimum ages for factory work. First state child labor law, Massachusetts requires children under 15 working in factories to attend school at least 3 months/year -
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Richard Mentor Johnson became the first and (so far) only Vice President of the United States elected by the United States Senate.
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