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Washington becomes the First President and is said to have been excellent by the people. U.S. is neutral after the French revolution.
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A good majority of the population was enslaved African Americans. Petition by Quakers is the first to congress to free slaves.
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Farmers protest the tax on whiskey. U.S. defeats Shawnee Indians
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Vermont becomes the fourteenth state. Benjamin Banneker wants Jefferson to have the Declarations main ideas to apply to the slaves as well.
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Washington and Adams are re-elected to be President and vice President.
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New land opens up after Indian defeat. Tennessee becomes sixteenth state.
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John Adams, who is a Federalist, defeats Thomas Jefferson, a Republican, for President. Washington leaves and delivers his Farewell Address.
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Bribe from France towards U.S. Building tension between the nations.
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Deportation of "dangerous aliens". Jefferson and Madison opposed it and published resolutions saying so.
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Jefferson responds to Tripoli declaring war by sending ships to the Mediterranean Sea. Declaration of Independence has 25th anniversary celebration.
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Louisiana is bought from the French for fifteen million.
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Their expedition in St. Louis. Ohio becomes the seventeenth state. Samuel Adam dies at age eighty-one in Boston.
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The Congress abolishes slave trade and made it required by the constitution. Embargo on France and Britain for interferring with U.S. trade.
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U.S. declares war on Britain over borders, trade, freedom of the seas, and the rights of neutrals. Louisiana becomes eighteenth state.
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The War of 1812 ended when the Treaty of Ghent
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Settlers in Florida and Georgia are attacked. Mississippi becomes twentieth state.
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U.S. gets Florida from Spain in the Adams-Onis treaty. Alabama becomes twenty-second state.
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Ban on slavery in Louisiana but allows Missouri to stay a slave state. Maine becomes twenty-third state.
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Europe is warned not to mess with western hemisphere problems. cotton mills begin production in Lowell, Massachusetts with machines powered by water.
