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In 1800, the United States Library of Congress was founded.
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The United States purchases the Louisiana territory from the French. This purchase doubles the size of of the United States
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The members of the Lewis and Clark expedition reach the Pacific Coast. This makes them the first Americans to set foot on this newly acclaimed territory.
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The United States declares war on Great Britian due to there interference of American trade shipping overseas.
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Francis Scott key writes the Star Spangled banner, which will soon become our national anthem.
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Roughly 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to march over 5,000 miles from Georgia to what is now Indian territory in Oklahoma. Nearly 4,000 of them died on the trip there.
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The United States declares war on Mexico in order to attempt to take over what is now California, among other southwestern territories.
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South Carolina seceded from the United States. This was closely followed by ten more states which would eventually form the Confederacy.
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The Confederacy formally declared war against the Union, marking the first civil war and American history.
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The south officially surrenders the Union, this marks the end of the civil war.
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Shortly after the end of the Civil War, president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor
