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Thomas Jefferson takes his seat as the third US President.
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Jefferson buys Louisiana from France.
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Lewis and Clark begin their expedition West.
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The British burn the White House.
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Indians lost this major battle between white settlers.
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Andrew Jackson becomes a hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
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In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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John Quincy Adams elected as president.
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Jackson's Presidential Election.
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The legendary battle of the Alamo. The Mexicans won the battle, killing all of the Texan soldiers inside the fort.
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Gold is confirmed to be in California and America catches gold fever.
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Due to the uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
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Only five days after the Civil War ends, Lincoln is assassinated.
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Colonel George A. Custer meets his end at the Battle of Little Bighorn.