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The U.S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, DC. This is still to this day the location of the captial.
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Meetings are no longer held in philidalphia. U.S. Congress meets in Washington, DC, for the first time.
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Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened.
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Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president in Washington, DC. United states is still prospering.
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Marbury v. Madison: Landmark Supreme Court decision greatly expands the power of the Court by establishing its right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
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Louisiana Purchase: The United States agrees to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, which extends west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and comprises about 830,000 sq mi. As a result, the U.S. nearly doubles in size.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, Mo., on expedition to explore the West and find a route to the Pacific Ocean.
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Thomas Jefferson's second inauguration. He is elected for a second time to serve as president.
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Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean. They finally crossed the country and reached the opposite ocean.
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James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president. Thomas Jefferson no longer in office.
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War of 1812: U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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British capture Washington, DC, and set fire to White House and Capitol.
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Francis Scott Key writes Star-Spangled Banner as he watches British attack on Fort McHenry at Baltimore.
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Treaty of Ghent is signed. Officially ending the war.
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James Monroeruns for office. He is later inaugurated as the fifth president.
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McCulloch v. Maryland: Landmark Supreme Court decision upholds the right of Congress to establish a national bank, a power implied but not specifically enumerated by the Constitution.
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Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States. Flordia is added to the states.
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Missouri Compromise: In an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) is admitted as a free state so that Missouri can be admitted as a slave state; except for Missouri, slavery is prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36°30'.
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Great Britain formally acknowledges American independence in the Treaty of Paris, which officially brings the war to a close.
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British general Charles Cornwallis surrenders to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va.
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Battle-weary and destitute Continental army spends brutally cold winter and following spring at Valley Forge.
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Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 coconspirators are hanged.
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Monroe Doctrine: In his annual address to Congress, President Monroe declares that the American continents are henceforth off-limits for further colonization by European powers.
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John Quincy Adams wins the disputed presidential election.
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The Erie Canal completed, connecting Western farmers and the Great Lakes to markets in New York.
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Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Washington, ceding territory to the federal government and gaining another year to remain on their lands.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Would not live to celebrate it.
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The United States and Great Britain sign a treaty extending the 1818 agreement to continue joint occupation of Oregon Territory.
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Andrew Jackson is elected in a landslide. Winning every Western state in the country.
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Joseph Smith, author of The Book of Mormon, founds the Church o Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Fayette, New York.
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Jackson vetoes the Maysville Road Bill, which would have provided federal monetary support for a sixty-mill road construction project entirely in Kentucky.
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Jackson forms a “kitchen cabinet". An informal group of advisors.
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The Frenchmen Alexis de Tocqueville and William de Beaumont arrive in America.
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Black Hawk surrenders, thus ending the Black Hawk War in the Northwest.
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President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Act, authorizing the use of military force to collect tariff duties in South Caroline.
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The American anti-slavery society is formed. Attems to end all forms of slavery begin.
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30 June The Indian Intercourse Act is passed.
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Richard Lawrence tries to assassinate Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president.
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The Alamo falls to Mexican force. Many are killed in the act of war.
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At the Battle of san Jacinto, sam Houston and a force of Texan militia defeat a Mexican army under Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. As a result of this battle, Texas wines its independence from Mexico.
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The United States recognizes the Republic of Texas. New Texaco forms and branches off.
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The forced removal of southeastern Indians to Oklahoman, known as the Trail of tears, begins.
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Slaves aboard the Spanish ship Amistad revolt and gain control of the vessel. They are captured off U.S. water, but after a lengthy court battle the slaves are set free in 1841.
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William Henry Harrison wins the presidential election. New president in office.
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John C. Fremont explores the headwaters of the Des Moines river in Iowa.
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The preemption Act grants “squatter’s rights” to settlers. No longer accepting squatters.
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Frémont leads an expedition to explore the route to Oregon beyond the Mississippi River as far as the South pass of the Continental Divide in Wyoming.
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In the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the American and Canadian boundary is established between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods.
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John C.Fremont leaves Kansas City for another exploratory journey of the West;the expedition yields an accurate survey of the immigrant route to Oregon.
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The U.S. Senate votes not to annex Texas. Instead fight for the land and claim it as us state.
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Mormon leader Joseph smith is murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
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Magazine editor John L.O’Sullivan coins the phrase “Manifest Destiny.”
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Texas is annexed by the United States
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The Mexican war begins.
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In the Oregon Treaty the boundary between the United States and Canada is set at the Forty-ninth parallel.
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The Wilmot Proviso passes the House of Representatives for the first time.
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Mormons arrive at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Where they plan to settle an begin new life.
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Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. Goldrush begins slowly but surel.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War.
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More than seventy thousand Americans, joined by eight thousand Mexicans and five thousand South Americans, head to the California gold fields.
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Zachary Taylor becomes President.
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Thomas Pratt was elected to the Senate from Maryland, replacing fellow Whig who had until then held it by appointment to fill a vacancy.
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The Supreme Court held in a decision in Sheldon v. Sill that the Congress, which has the power under the Constitution to institute lower courts of the judiciary, also has the power to limit their jurisdiction.
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John Calhoun died of tuberculosis in Washington, D.C.
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Gila Expedition: Californian volunteers launched a punitive expedition against the Quechan.
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The United States and the United Kingdom signed the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty, under which each promised to maintain the neutrality of a proposed canal through Nicaragua and not to occupy or colonize any territory in Central America.
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Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850: The Convention drafted a petition to the upcoming Ohio state constitutional convention asking that women be granted the franchise as well as civil and political rights equal to those of men.
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Bloody Island massacre: An American punitive expedition killed as many as one hundred Pomo civilians on an island in Clear Lake.
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Nashville Convention: The Convention resolved to propose the extension of the Missouri Compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean.
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Senator Thomas Corwin of Ohio resigned his seat following his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. Fellow Whig Thomas Ewing was appointed to fill his seat.
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Inauguration of Millard Fillmore: Vice president Millard Fillmore was sworn in as president at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, eliminating the last civil and political rights of escaped slaves and imposing serious penalties for harboring or failing to arrest fugitives.
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The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. No one was allowed to trade slaves anymore in washingon.
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The Donation Land Claim Act was signed into law, granting free plots of land to white and half-blooded Native American settlers of the Oregon Territory.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act is passed, nullifying the Missouri Compromise.
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United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
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American Civil War: The war begins at Fort Sumter. Union vs Confederation.
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Ten more states secede from the Union and established the Confederate States of America.
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Kansas becomes the 34th state. Joins the union of U.S.
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Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederacy. Civil war boils up.
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First Battle of Bull Run: The battle takes place. Results in a Confederate victory.
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Battle of Hampton Roads: A naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimack takes place.
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Second Battle of Bull Run: The battle takes place.
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Battle of Antietam: The battle takes place.
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Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in those states that had seceded.
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Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president, after the assassination of President McKinley.
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Inauguration of Donald Trump: Donald Trump is inaugurated as the forty-fifth president of the United States.
