Tech Project 3 #3

By kyle_henry19
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    Tech Project 3 #3

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was elected President

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Thomas Jefferson buys Louisiana from France, doubling the size of the country in one barely-constitutional action.

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Indigenous peoples led by Tecumseh fight and lose a major battle opposing White settlement.

  • White House

    The British burn the White House and the Capitol, but first lady Dolley Madison saves the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.

  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson becomes an American hero at the Battle of New Orleans.

  • John Quincy Adams

    The American presidential election which made John Quincy Adams president is bitterly contested and must be resolved by the House of Representatives.

  • Erie Canal

    The Erie Canal opens up, making New York Empire State

  • Alamo

    A historic fight at the Alamo becomes legendary fight for Texas history

  • Compromise of 1850

    The ominous Compromise of 1850 over enslavement delays the Civil War

  • The Civil War

    The U.S. is torn by the Civil War