Events 1801-1876

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    Industrial Revolution

  • US capital moved from Philadelphia to Washington, DC.

  • US Congress first meeting in DC

  • Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third US President

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    US buys 530,000,000 acres from France for $15 million

  • Marbury v. Madison

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    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • The Burr-Hamilton duel

    VP Aaron Burr kills Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel

  • James Madison is elected as the fourth US President

  • National Road

    The first major improved highway
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    The War of 1812

  • James Monroe is elected as the fifth US President

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • John Quincy Adams is elected the sixth US President

  • Andrew Jackson is elected the seventh US President

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    The Battle of the Alamo

  • Texas declares independence from Mexico

  • Martin Van Buren is elected the eighth US President

  • William Henry Harrison is elected the ninth US President

  • John Tyler is elected the 10th US President

  • James K. Polk is elected the 11th US President

  • Zachary Taylor is elected the 12th US President

  • Millard Fillmore is elected the 13th US President

  • Franklin Pierce is elected 14th US President

  • James Buchanan is elected 15th US President

  • The founding of Confederate States army

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    The Union Army

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th US President

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    The American Civil War

  • Death of Stonewall Jackson

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    Reconstruction Era

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    William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea

    scorched earth campaign against the Confederates

  • Andrew Jackson is elected 17th US President

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Ulysses S. Grant is elected 18th US President

  • Ulysses S. Grant is reelected as US President

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