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Third President of the United States.Founder of the Democratic Republican Party.
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President Jefferson bought Louisiana from France,
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It was the first time for the United States to cross the continent west to the Pacific coast and back.The leaders were Capt. Merriweather Lewis and Lt. William Clark.It was started by President Jefferson.
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The War of 1812 to 1815 between the United States and Great Britain.America's first foreign war after independence
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President Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent, bringing it into force the next day.
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In the first Seminole War, caused by discomfort with runaway slaves congregating in Florida, General Andrew Jackson led the United States army against the Native Seminoles of America
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Florida was taken from Spain by the Treaty of Adams - Orness
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The Missouri Compromise, which divided the free and slave states on the Mason-Dixon Line, included the southern boundary of Pennsylvania and extended north along the Ohio River, laying the foundation for the future states to take shape on the acquired Louisiana territory
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The Monroe Doctrine declared intolerance of European interference in The affairs of the Americas, proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in European affairs, and established an Isolationist American foreign policy
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Noah Webster's Dictionary of The American English is published with 70,000 entries
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President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which moved all American Indians from lands east of Mississippi to Oklahoma.
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William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator.
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NAT Duner led a serf rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia
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Alexis DE Tocqueville's Democracy in America was published
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Also known as the Florida War, the War took place in Florida from 1835 to 1842.The Second Seminole War was the most expensive Indian war ever waged by the United States.
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as president. Whig party. Died: April 4th, 1841
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In the Amistad Trial, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the West African prisoners
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Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore
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Life Narratives of Frederick Douglass: The Autobiography of an American Slave was published
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In the Mexican-american War, the United States gained territory from Texas to California in the southwest
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Brigham Young led the Mormon pioneers who founded Salt Lake City in Utah
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Construction worker Michael Marshall discovered gold in Sutter Hills, California
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
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Thirty thousand people went west to Search for gold in California
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At the request of the serfdom states, Congress passed a second Fugitive Slave Act, which stimulated the abolitionists and the Underground Railroad movement
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Isaac Singer invented the sewing machine
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Uncle Tom's cabin was published.To some extent, it intensified the local conflicts that led to the American Civil War
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In 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case concerning slavery, which seriously damaged the prestige of the Supreme Court of the United States and became one of the key causes of the Civil War.
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John Brown's raid on the Hubble Ferry armory did not lead to a slave uprising.John Brown was arrested and executed on December 2
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The Southern states formed the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as President.
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Lincoln was inaugurated as President of the United States
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For a registration fee of $10, all adults loyal to the Union could claim 64.74 hectares of land in the West and become owners after five years of working the land.Lincoln's government cracked down hard on counterrevolutionaries and purged the army of southern agents
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Emancipation was announced and black men were allowed to join the Union army
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Lee's army was besieged by northern troops and forced to surrender to Grant.The Civil War ended.The Reunification of the United States
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President Lincoln was assassinated.The 13th Amendment went into effect, and slavery was abolished throughout the United States
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The Central Pacific railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad were linked at Prammonterey, Utah, completing a joint public-private transcontinental railroad
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Alexander Graham Bell and his colleagues tested the world's first working telephone
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Colorado joined the United States as the 38th state
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Thomas Edison patented an mimeograph machine.