History of Congress

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  • Capital settled at the Potomac River

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    History of Congress

  • Henry Clay elected as Speaker of House

  • U.S. declared war for the first time

  • Capital was rebuilt

  • Congress passed the Missouri Compromise

  • 21,551 post offices were built

  • Compromise of 1850 held the Union together for 10 more years

  • Abraham Lincoln elected

  • South Carolina left the Union

  • Civil War begins

  • Dome on the Capital was finished

  • Congress passed amendment abolishing slavery

  • Hawaii annexed

  • Pearl Harbor