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The Hatian Revolution inspired enslaved and free black Americans to seek for further freedom.
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After the French Revolutionary War, Europe was devastated. So between 1793 and 1815, American exports rose in value from $20.2 million to $108.3 million.
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Slave Gabriel and around 1,000 other slaves planned an attack in Richmond, Virginia. Their goal was to end slavery.
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The Market Revolution remade America. American Industry rose due to new technologies, transportation, and communitcation methods.
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He was the 3rd President of the United States.
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In the year of 1803, United States bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon for $15 million. This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
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Around six thousand American sailors where "impressed" into the service of the British Navy between 1803 and 1812.
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Lewis and Clark's expedition gave the United States claim Oregon.
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American colonists feared Native uprisings after Tenskwatawa and Tecumeseh built alliances in 1805.
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In the year of 1807, the Brittisch attacked the USS Chesapeake and many Americans wanted a war with the British. However, the president of America wanted a "peaceable coercion" so, alongside Congress, enforced The Embargo Act. The Embargo Act cosed foreign trade in hopes of avoiding war.
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In New York, 1807, Robert Fulton established the first commercial steamboat in the Hudson River. By 1830, more than two hundred comercial steamboats would move in western rivers.
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He was the 4th President of the United States.
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On June 18, 1812, Madison signed the declaration of war with Great Britain. The War of 1812 consisted of three stages. The first stage lasted until 1813 and was when Great Britain fought against Napoleon and United States invaded Canada. The second stage is when the United States lauched their second offensive against Canada. The third stage concluded with Andrew Jackson's victory in 1815 In Louisiana.
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During the War of 1812, Tecumseh and his followers found new opportunities to seize several American Forts as the United States was distracted with Great Britain. Native Americans also solicited British aid during the War of 1812.
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He was defeated in 1814 and allowed Great Britain to only focus on the United States during the War of 1812.
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New agricultural technologies took place between the years of 1815 and 1850. One of the most famous agricultural technology was Cyrus McCormick's horse-dawn mechanical reaper.
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He was the 5th President of the United States.
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On the Adams Onis Treaty of 1819, the United States gained the state of Florida.
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Under the Misouri Compromise, the Congress would admit Missouri as a slave state, Congress would admit Maine as a free state, and the rest of the Louisiana territory would be divided along 36°30' line of latititude and slavery would not be permited north of this line.
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Alcohol became a big problem by the 1820's. Movements ,like the temperance crusade, fought to minimize the consumption of alchol.
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Groups like Irish, Jews, and Germans sought new lives and economic oportunites in America.
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New York State completed the Erie Canal in 1825. The Erie Canal linked the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean. This human-made waterway is 350 miles long.
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He was the 6th President of the United States.
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The first long-distance rail line in the United States was lauched from Maryland 1827. By 1860, Americans had more than thirty thousand miles of railroads.
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He was the 7th President of the United States.
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A census performed in the 1830 suggested that 3,500 people were still enslaved in the North.
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Andrew Jackson wanted to remove Native Americans from the land east of the Mississippi River. The Indian Removal Act wanted to move all Natives further west.
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Textile companies made up 88 out of 106 American corporation in the year of 1832.
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This Bill authorized Jackson to send the military to enforce the in South Carolina.
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South Carolina, Gerogia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi produced five hundred million pounds of Petit Gulf.
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To avoid further tribal bloodshed, a Cherokee named John Ridge signed the Treaty of New Echota. This treaty sold lands in Georgia for $5 million and as Native Americans signed this treaty, they hoped to prevent further conflict with white settlers.
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Texas declared independence on March 2,1836. They succesfuly left Mexico and became the Republic of Texas.
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Santa Anna was captured and forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco on May 14, 1836, in which he agreed that Texas was independent so he had to withdraw his army.
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The Panic of 1837 lead to economic depression. Capitals of American Backs dropped around 40%, prices fell (such as the value of cotton dropped 50%), and economic activity slowed.
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He was the 8th President of the United States.
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This was an early black newspaper in America.
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President Martin van Buren decided to order an army to remove all Cherokee that did not obey the Treaty of New Echota's cession of territory. Around sixteen thousand Cherokee left for the west and only ten thousand completed it due to harsh weather, difficult planning, and difficult travel. This is know as the Trail of Tears.
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The Whigh Pary gained public support after the Panic of 1837. They organized their first convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1838.
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Member of the Brook Farm and George Ripley began to practice Fourierism as vision of society based on cooperate principles.
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In 1840, the General Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840, consisted of 500 abolitionists. They met in England with the goal of ending slavery.
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He was the 9th President of the United States and victor at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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He was the 10th President of the United States.
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Child labor became a big issue in the American labor movement. Massachusetts passed a law that prohibited children under age of twelve to work more than ten hours a day.
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Samuel Morse had persuaded Congressto fund a forty-mile telegraph line in 1843. This telegraph line connected Washington D.C. to Baltimore. Telegraph lines were very useful to spread information.
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Tyler extended an official offer to Texas to become a state on March 3, 1845. Texas agreed and became a state on July 4, 1845, becoming the twenty-eigth state.
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John Louis O'Sullivan wrote "Manifest Destiny" and viewed that it God's command to expand United States and spread democracy.
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He was the 11th President of the United States.
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In the year of 1846, the U.S. Army ,under the control of General Winfield, took control of Mexico City. Peace came of February 2, 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe was signed.
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In January 1848, gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in California. Many Americans travelled to California in hopes of finding gold, too. By the end of 1850's Chinese and Mexican immigrants made up around one fifth of the mining population in California.
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In 1849, Henry David Thoreau wrote "Resistance to Civil Govenment" and he had an enthusiasm for self-sufficiency, communion with nature, and simple living.
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He was the 12th President of the United States.
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The Whig Party had constant disagrements about slavery and broke apart because of the Compromise of 1850.
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He was the 13th President of the United States.
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He was the 14th President of the United States.
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In 1854, America gainded new territories from the north of Mexico in 1854. This newly gained territory would later become parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
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He was the 15th President of the United States.
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He was the 16th President of the United States.
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This deadly war caused the deaths of around seven thousand people. This war was against the Union and the Confederate States of America. Slavery was one of the main causes of the war.
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He was the 17th President of the United States.
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He was the 18th President of the United States.