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Since Sacajawea was an American Indian, there was not alot of written records of her birth and death. Her birth was somewhere between 1784 and 1787.
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In 1793, Eli Whitney created a machine that separates cotton from its seeds. The machine was called a cotton gin.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the president power to imprison or deport any foreigner.
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Sacajawea was captured early in her life, at about 13, by a tribe of Hidasta Indians. Her father was killed in the act, and she was split apart from her brother, also.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes the United States' third president
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Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, aquiring 800,000 sq. miles of land for $15 million in 1801.
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On this day, the Lewis and Clark expedition set out from St. Louis to explore the pacfic northwest.
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Everyone underestimated Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacajawea when they were on their 2 year long expedition through Indian territory. No one thought that they would return, but they did successfully in 1806.
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Some sources say that Scajawea was very young when she supposedly died in 1812.
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The Liberty Bell cracked in 1835. It tolled the death of Chief Jistice John Marshall.
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Texas declares its indpendence from Mexico, becoming a free state in 1836.
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Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams both died on July 4, the fiftieth anniversay of the Declaration of Independence signing.
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Michigan becomes the first state to abolish capital punishment in 1846. Capital punishment, in other words the death penalty, is a punishment for a crime in some states.
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President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November, Thanksgiving Day.
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Some sources say that Sacajawea lived until she was about 90 years old, and died in 1884.
