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Whiskey Rebellion
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Whiskey Rebellion President: George Washington The Whiskey Rebellion of August 1794 was the product of growing discontentment, which had been expressed as early as 1791, of grain farmers who resented a federal tax imposed on their distillery products. As growers threatened federal tax collectors with physical harm, Washington at first tried to prosecute the resistors in the court system. -
Jay's Treaty
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Jay's Treaty President: George Washington Attempted to diffuse the tensions between England and the United States that had risen to renewed heights since the end of the Revolutionary War. The U.S. government objected to English military posts along America's northern and western borders and Britain's violation of American neutrality in 1794 when the Royal Navy seized American ships in the West Indies. -
Pinckney's Treaty
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Pinckney's Treaty President: George Washington Spanish and U.S. negotiators concluded the Treaty of San Lorenzo, also known as Pinckney’s Treaty, on October 27, 1795. It resolved territorial disputes between the two countries and granted American ships the right to free navigation of the Mississippi River as well as duty-free transport through the port of New Orleans, then under Spanish control. -
Farewell Address
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Farewell Address President: George Washington Officially notifying the American public that Washington would voluntarily step down as the nation's first president. The decision was extraordinary: rarely, if ever, in the history of western civilization had a national leader voluntarily relinquished his title. The action set a model for successive U.S. administrations and future democracies. -
Election of 1800
Election of 1800
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Election of 1800 pic President: Thomas Jefferson The significance of the 1800 election lay in the fact that it entailed the first peaceful transfer of power between parties under the U.S. Constitution: Republican Thomas Jefferson succeeded Federalist John Adams. This peaceful transfer occurred despite defects in the Constitution that caused a breakdown of the electoral system. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase Pic President: Thomas Jefferson The United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. -
Lewis & Clark Expedition
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Lewis & Clark Expedition President: Thomas Jefferson One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. -
War of 1812
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War of 1812 President: James Madison America’s efforts to preserve its neutral rights by stopping all trade with the warring powers had no effect, other than to hurt the U.S. economy. On June 18, 1812, after two decades of watching its rights violated, the United States defiantly declared war on Britain. -
Treaty of Ghent
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Treaty of Ghent President: James Madison On December 24, 1814, The Treaty of Ghent was signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada. -
Battle of New Orleans
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Battle of New Orleans President: James Madison The battle was joined during the early-morning hours of January 8, 1815. Poor leadership, confusion on the battlefield, the swampy terrain and American tenacity combined to create a debacle for the British Army. Within an hour after it started, the fight was ended with the surrender of the British on the battlefield. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
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Adams-Onis Treaty President: John Quincy Adams Was named for John Quincy Adams of the United States and Louis de Onís of Spain and renounced any claim of the United States to Texas. It fixed the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase as beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River and running along its south and west bank to the thirty-second parallel and thence directly north to the Río Rojo. -
Monroe Doctrine
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Monroe Doctrine
Source: Notes President: James Monroe Warning to to stay out of the Americas. -
Election of 1824
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Election of 1824 President: John Quincy Adams As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States. -
Telegraph Invented (Morse Code)
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Telegraph Invented (Morse Code) President: Martin Van Buren By December 1837, Morse applied for the federal government's appropriation, & during the next year he conducted demonstrations of his telegraph both in NY & Washington. After meeting Charles Wheatstone, the inventor of an electric telegraph system, Morse realized that although his main competitor had built an ingenious mechanism, his own system was far simpler, more efficient, & easier to use. -
Trail of Tears
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Trail of Tears President: Andrew Jackson In 1830, the Indian Removal Act was signed. It gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land east of the Mississippi for land to the west, in the “Indian colonization zone” that the United States had acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase. They made the journey to Indian territory on foot, without any food, supplies or help from the gov. -
Annexation of Texas
Annexation of Texas
Annexation of Texas pic President: James K. Polk President Tyler. on the last day of his term of office, sent a message to the Texas government, with a copy of the joint resolutions of Congress in favor of annexation. These were considered by a convention in Texas and that body approved the measure (July 4, 1845), and on that day Texas became one of the States of the Union. -
54 - 40 or Fight
54-40 or Fight Date
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54-40 or Fight President: James K. Polk 54-40 was the area of the Oregon Territory subject to dispute with Great Britain. The proponents of this slogan wanted for the US to have this territory or else go to war. -
California Gold Rush
Gold Rush Date
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Gold Rush President: James Knox Polk The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area. A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852. -
Gadsden Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Gadsden Purchase pic President: Franklin Pierce This purchase was an agreement between the U.S. & Mexico, in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona & New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts after the war.
