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George Washington Becomes The First President
After the Constitution was ratified, George unanimously won the presidential election and took the oath of office in New York. During George's first term, the White House was being built.he was the only President who never lived in the White House. A two party political system was created because of a disagreement between George and Thomas Jefferson over supporting France during the French and English War. -
The French Revolution
The regime had been weakened and had already disappeared in parts of Europe. Often the bourgeoisie had political power in those countries where they did not possess it. The poor, many that owned land, had a better living and education. They wanted take down the last bit of feudalism to have the full rights of landowners and to be free to increase their holdings. The population doubled between 1715 and 1800. France, was the most populated country of Europe, the problem was unavoidable. -
Thomas Jefferson Becomes The Third President
As a candidate for President in 1796, Thomas came three votes close of election. He became Vice President, although an opponent of President Adams. In 1800 a defect caused a more serious problem. Republican electors, attempting to name both a President and a Vice President from their own party, cast a tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives settled the tie. Hamilton, disliking both Jefferson and Burr, nevertheless urged Jefferson's election. -
Napoleon Forces Spain To Sign The Secret Treaty.
By the Treaty of San Ildefonso and the Treaty of Madrid, 21 March 1801, Spain returned to France the territory of Louisiana which France had ceded to Spain in 1763. From that moment the power of America is bounded by the limit which it may suit the interests and the tranquillity of France and Spain to assign here. The French Republic will be the wall of brass to the combined efforts of England and America. Spain was compensated by the creation in Tuscany of the kingdom of Etruria. -
Thomas Jefferson Purchased The Louisiana Territory From France
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. This little event, of France possessing herself of Louisiana, is the embryo of a tornado which will burst on the countries on both shores of the Atlantic and involve in it’s effects their highest destinies. -
Dunbar And Hunter Explore The Ouachita River And Hot Springs
The Hunter and Dunbar expedition was one of four ventures into the Louisiana Purchase ordered by Thomas Jefferson. Between 1804 and 1807, President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark into the northern regions. Zebulon Pike, the southwestern areas, and two smaller forays. Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis along the Red River; and William Dunbar and Dr. George Hunter to explore the “Washita” River and “the hot springs” -
Lewis And Clark Explore The Northern Louisiana Purchase
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. The Lewis and Clark Expedition spanned 8,000 mi (13,000 km) and three years, as the expedition party was known, down the Ohio River, up the Missouri River, chronicling botanical, zoological, meteorological, geographic and ethnographic information. -
Freeman And Custis Explore The Red River
One of the most forgotten expedition of the southwest territory was the journey by Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis, initially labeled “The Great Excursion” by President Thomas Jefferson, who wanted the endeavor to explore both the Red and Arkansas rivers. In the end, Freeman and Custis were tasked to the Red River in search of its headwaters, along the way documenting coordinates, climate, and ecological findings. The expedition passed through the corner of what would become Arkansas -
New Madrid Earthquakes
The 1811/1812 New Madrid earthquakes were an intense earthquake series beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.5‑7.9 followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day. -
War Of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies.
