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George Washington Inagurated into office. America's "first" president.
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Exporting cotton from the South remained the dynamic force in the newly developing American economy between these years.
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGINS TO PICK UP IN AMERICA, WELL UNDERWAY IN ENGLAND ALREADY.
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slave population estimated to be 700,000 in this year
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Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Delaware, and Maryland.
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Alexander Hamilton proposes a plan to help demolish national debt which included the development of the first National Bank of America
*promoted home manufacturing alliance with Britain -
1st 10 amendments to the US Constitution ratified:
1. Freedom of SPEECH, RELIGION, PRESS, ASSEMBLY
2. Right to bear arms
3. NO quatering troops w/o consent
4. NO illegal search and seizure
5. Not subjected to same offense twice (double jeopardy) or be deprived of life, liberty, or property
6. Right to a speedy trial
7. Right/Guarunteed trial by jury
8. No cruel/unusual punishmen nor excessive bail
9. Rights not confined to what is written
10. Power not delegated by the US are reserved to states -
Yale College's Eli Whitney & South Caronlina's Catherine Greene collaborate to invent to the Cotton Gin. This engine made it possible to clean 50 pounds a cotton a day.
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The rebellion of poor farmers due to the high taxes in place ( they obviously did not want to pay these taxes, hence rebellion) Washington had to send troops to squash the rebellion.
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A treaty with Britain & the United States that stated that the US would not trade with ports opened during war time that were closed during peace time & Britain will leave forts in Ohio River Valley (which they do not) and will allow US to trade with Asia
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Presidency of John Adams begins
(Federalist)
Vice president T. Jefferson (Republican)
* XYZ affair due to French attacks on American Ships & making unreasaonable demands - no money or war, but America's negative attitude toward France despite Jefferson's desires -
- Stay out of foreign affairs (neutrility)
- Strong Central government
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These Acts are passed throughout the duration of this year, making it illegal to publish anything against government or president
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gave states right to nullify if unconstitutional anit-Alien and Seditoin ACts
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Presidency of John Adams ends
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Presidency administration begins. (1800-1808)
Government peacfully shifts to a Democratic - Republican -
Hamilton negotiates with France
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$15 million from France, doubled size of America, Federlaist opposed because it established loose contructoin of the Constitution (Jefferson contradicts his own views)
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Slavery abolished in the State of New Jersey!
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Jefferson send Lewis & Clark out to explore Louisiana territory, surveys, data & etc observed/recorded.
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Robert Fulton builds the first Steamboat!
Industrial Revolution in America well underway -
A bill to abolish the importation of slaves became law! babysteps towards Jefferson's claim that "total emancipation [of slaves] with consent of the masters" was in the near future for America.
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Presidency of James Madison begins
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Mississippi: population doubled between these years (31,306 to 74,448)
Alabama: population grew sixteenfold (9,046 to 144,317) -
By this year, inland regions of Georgia and South Carolina were producing 60 million pounds a year. They exported most of it to England
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William Harrison defeats Indian Tecumseh (if you don't remember who he is, he was the Indian who was rallying up Indians for the defense of western expansion)
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-prosted trade, stop impressment, protect mercantilism
-War Hawks (young republicans in congress) want Canada to Join
-Federalist oppose war *actually a pointless war because Britain was making an exit of US ( or planning to) -
Creek Indians defeated by Andrew Jackson and the Tennessee militia at Horseshoe Bend (thus beginning the forced removal of the Old Southwest Indian population from the reagion)
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End of Presidency of James Madison
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This was one of the swifest migrations in American history in which white Southeners and their slaves flooded to the Old Southwest. (Georgia and the Mississippi & Alabama areas)
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Questioned whether the southern institution of slavery expand with western migration
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first showed northern opposition to expansion of slavery
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As expansion to the Southwest swelled, demand for slaves in newly settled regions gave way to a lucrative internal slave trade (Upper South slave owners sold slaves to Lower South)
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By this year, northern states had abolished slaveholdings
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By the end of 1821, and due to westward expansion primarily fuled by the search for new cotton lands, six more states were added to the United States: Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
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Presidency of John Quincy Adams begins
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End of Adams's Presidency
6th president -
720,000 bales of cotton produced
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This act, signed into law by Andrew Jackson, was an aggressive legal way in removing all Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River, west of Mississippi.
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Provoked by South Carolina; slave states feared being permanently outvoted because they were slowly becoming a minority
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This was the name remembered for the second surge of western expansion.
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British Government eliminate slavery in the West Indies sugar plantations.
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the Presidency of Van Buren
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Congress refuses to annex Texas, which also showed the south Northern opposition to slavery
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The Cherokee Indians forced migration along the Trail of Tears marked the ending of the forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, & Seminoles) from their lands to reserved "Indian Territory"
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battles of expansion which aslo showed south north's opposition to slavery
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2.85 million bales of cotton produced
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55% in Cotton
15% in Domestic Work
10% in Rice, Sugar, Hermp
10% in Tobacco
10% in Mining, Lumbering, Industry, & construction -
-california = Free State
-Other areas - popular sovereignty
Us Takes texas debts
slave trade banned in washington
fugitave slave law strengthened -
Three more states were added to the 12 states of the United States: Florida, Arkansas, & TEXAS<33 you know it's your favorite state(;
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Senator James Henry Hammond, former Govenor of South Carolina, delivers his "King Cotton" Speech to the U.S. Senate to boast the idea that US could rage war if the cotton trade ceased.
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5 million bales of cotton produced
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the slave population grew to be more than 4 million
