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Period: to
Expansion and Reformation
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Monroe Doctrine
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John Quincy Adams becomes President
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Opening of the Erie Canal
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Panama Congress
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Building of first railroad
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Indian Removal Act
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Jackson vetoes national bank charter
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Inauguration of Martin Van Buren
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Great Panic of 1837
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Morse invents the telegraph
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Trail of Tears
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William Henry Harrison inaugurated President
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John Tyler becomes president after William Henry Harrison dies
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James K Polk becomes president
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Wilmot Proviso
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Discovery of gold in California
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Zachary Taylor becomes president
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Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Filmore becomes president
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California becomes a State
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Inauguration of Franklin Pierce
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Commercial treaty with Japan
Treaty of Kanagawa & Commodore William Perry -
Kansas-Nebraska Bill
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Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
