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Missouri is admitted as a slave state. Maine is admitted as a free state in the missouri compromise
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Liberia is founded on the west coast of Africa as a settlement for freed U.S slaves
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Peru assures its independence by defeating Spain at Ayacucho
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Erie Canal is opened, connecting great lakes and Atlantic Ocean
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day, July 4th.
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A secret system for helping fugitive slaves reach safety, is organized
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Thomas Cole completes The Oxbow, an early Hudson River school Romantic landscape painting.
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Queen Victoria of England is crowned
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U.S Army forces Cherokees out of Georgia on long Trail of Tears to Oklahoma
