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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson elected as the third president of the United States. -
Louisiana Purchase
The United States government Purchases the territory of Louisiana for a very cheap rate from French President Napoleon Bonaparte. -
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Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark explore to the West of the Continental Divide. -
James Madison
James Madison elected as the fourth president of the United States. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 begins; a second conflict between the United States and England. -
Battle of New Orleans
The final conflict of the War of 1812, which actually occurred after the singing of the official treaty ending the war. -
James Monroe
James Monroe elected as the fifth president of the United States. -
The Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819 was a widespread economic crisis in the United States that greatly slowed the county's westward expansion. -
Missouri Compromise
A compromise in which the federal government lets Missouri enter the United States as a slave state, but also instates Maine as a free state at the same time. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is published -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams elected as the sixth president of the United States -
Erie Canal Completed
The Construction of the Erie Canal is finally completed. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson elected as the seventh president of the United States. -
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Trail of Tears
A long period in which large Native American Tribes were forced westward onto smaller reservations. Many perished. -
Second Creek War
The Second War the Americans fought against the Creek Indians. -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren is elected as the eighth president of the United States. -
John Tyler
John Tyler is sworn in as the tenth president of the United States after his predecessor dies in office -
William Henry Harrison
Williams Henry Harrison is elected as the ninth president of the United States. -
James K. Polk
James K. Polk is elected as the eleventh president of the United States. -
Texas enters the Union
Texas enters the United States as the 28th state. -
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The Mexican American War
War fought between the Mexicans and the Americans over border disputes including territory in Texas, and later-day New Mexico, Arizona, and California on the United State's southern border. -
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California Gold Rush
Hundreds of thousands of Americans migrate to California in search of gold and riches. -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor is elected as the twelfth president of the United States. -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore, the Vice President, is sworn in as the thirteenth president of the United States after his predecessor passes away in office. -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce is elected as the fourteenth president of the United States. -
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Third Great Awakening
The last of its kind, the Third Great Awakening once again invoke and challenge American Christians with new ideas of Protestantism. -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan is elected as the fifteenth president of the United States. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina becomes the first of many southern states to secede from the Union to a the dispute over slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is elected as the sixteenth president of the United States. -
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The Civil War
The Civil War of the United States was fought between the North, the Union, and the South, the Confederates. It was over the political dispute of slaves states and the legality of slavery in the United States. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the most decisive victories for the Union army in the Civil War -
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Recostruction
This was the period in U.S. history where the federal government and the citizens attempted to return the United States to the same unity that it had before. This meant reuniting southern states with the Union, which it succeeded in. However, the reconstruction ultimately failed the most important goal: to insert over 3 million freed black in the south into American society. Instead, these people did not receive equality, but rather segregation and racial inequality for the next century. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson becomes the seventeenth president of the United States after Lincoln's assassination, and then is reelected to serve another 4 year term. -
Ulysses Grant
Ulysses Grant is elected as the eighteenth president of the United States.