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The Democratic Party started when Andrew Jackson became president and vetoed the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by Andrew Jackson which forced American Indians to emigrate westward.
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The Mexican Army attacked the troops stationed in San Antonio Texas at the Alamo.
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Arkansas became the United States twenty-fifth state as a slave state.
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph which gave people a faster way of communicating over long distances.
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Ulysses S. Grant graduated from West Point known only as a skilled horseman.
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Florida becomes the twenty-seventh state of the United States as a slave state.
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Texas became the twenty-eighth state of the United States as a slave state.
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The Republican Party is founded on the basis of anti-slavery expansion.
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John Brown and the members of the Free State killed five men who were members of the pro-slavery law and order party. This leads to many southerners believing that the North was trying to take away their slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president of the United States.
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South Carolina seceded from the Union soon after Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
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The Civil War starts with the confederacy attacking Fort Sumter.
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Ulysses S. Grant was made the commander of all of the Union Forces.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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The south undergoes reconstruction following the end of the Civil War.
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Ulysses S. Grant won the presidency, with his running mate Schuyler Colfax, with an electoral margin of 214-80.
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Ulysses S. Grant and his running mate Henry Wilson won the presidency and vice-presidency with an electoral college margin of 288-66.
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Ulysses S. Grant did not run for a third term of the presidency since his second term was wrought with scandals.
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Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer.
