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Breaking the tie
If there was a tie in the election the result would be sent to the house of representatives, There each state has one vote. Burr should have told his supporters to elect Jefferson as president but he didn’t. -
The campaign
The candidates outlined their campaign issues early, Jefferson promised to run a frugal and simple government, but adams ran on his record of peace and prosperity but the campaign was mostly based on insults than on issues -
The election
The election was moved in the middle of the 1800, Republicans once again backed up jefferson for president, Hoping they would avoid strange outcomes, they wants hamilton to be president but he wasn't eligible. -
Populatin growth
Population- 5,309,000 to 7,239,881 people -
D.C. is used for the first time as the nations capitol
A Secret meeting was held in Washington D.C to dicuss the Louisiana Purchese. -
invention of the locomotive.
The Locomotive was the first -
Embargo Act
Bans international trades with the America. -
James Madison in office
When James Madison was elected in 1809 he tried a new approach to protect the us at seas. He offered the french and the british a deal, If they stopped attacking them, We would stop trading with their enemies. -
1811 Censis
Third national census records 7,239,881 people -
War of 1812
Madison chose to abandon isolationism at request, congress declared war on british June 17, 1812, This was a very bold step to a nation of 7,000 poorly trained men. -
Capital burned
1814- British troops set fire to the United States capitol, Washington D.C., in retaliation for the US burning York, Toronto. -
The First Seminole War (1817-1818)
The First Seminole War (1817-1818) was fought because the Seminole Indians were forced to reloctate to west Florida and they fought the american army and was deffeted. -
20th state
The state of Mississippi is allowed to enter the Union as the 20th state, when Congress admits the state on December 10, 1817. -
Bachleor Tax
Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50 -
Pre emotion act
Congress passes a Pre-emption Act which grants settlers the right to purchase at $1.25 per acre 160 acres of public land which they have cultivated for at least 12 months, thereby offering "squatters" some protection against speculators who purchase lands they have already improved. -
Mormonism
Mormonism, formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a published by Smith in 1830. -
Election
The presidental eclection of 1830 was one of the dirtiest elections in amaerican history. -
Martin Van Buren
Basically the trouble was the 19th-century cyclical economy of "boom and bust," which was following its regular pattern, but Jackson's financial measures contributed to the crash. His destruction of the Second Bank of the United States had removed restrictions upon the inflationary practices of some state banks; wild speculation in lands, based on easy bank credit, had swept the West. To end this speculation, Jackson in 1836 had issued a Specie Circular requiring that lands be purchased with har -
British Free the slaves in the britich colonies
Parliament Ordered Slaves From The British Colonies To Be Free And Compensates The Slaveholders Within One Hundred And Twenty Million Pounds. -
Texas wins its independence
Sam Houston, the commander of the texas revolutionary army understood texans rage, but as santa anna pushed on, Houstons only hope was to retreat eastward, but lureing santa anna deeper into texas he hoped to make it harder for the general to supply is army and keep battle ready -
To annex texas or not
Now independent country texas became known as the lonestar republic because of the single star on its flag. But most texans were americans who wanted texas to be apart of the united states. -
All of oregon or half
Along with texas, " Oregon fever " also played a role in the 1844 presidential campain polk won the election with stirring sloggans such as " all of oregan or not! " Fifty-four forty or fight, Oilk promised that he would not rest until the inuted states had annexed with all of oregon county
