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Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr defeat John Adams and Charles Pinckney .
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Presidential election: Jefferson is re-elected president and George Clinton elected Vice President. -
John Quincy Adams wins the disputed presidential election. -
Andrew Jackson is elected in a landslide, winning every Western state in the country. -
Jackson forms a “kitchen cabinet,” an informal group of advisors. This kitchen cabinet will help promote the discussions that are being talked about and the peppers will also promote it.
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30 Jan. Richard Lawrence tries to assassinate Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president.
This would have put a humongous set back to the country with the war because the main leader wouldn't be able to control and give orders. -
John C.Fremont leaves Kansas City for another exploratory journey of the West;the expedition yields an accurate survey of the immigrant route to Oregon. -
Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. This was a very big opportunity for families and men to attempt to strike it rich at California and mine for gold. -
In the Gadsden Purchase the United States receives twenty-nine thousand square miles of Mexican territory south of the Gila River for a southern railroad line. This helped the U.S. grow so more people could live their. -
Abraham Lincoln debates Stephen A. Douglas for an Illinois senate seat. This was a big opportunity for both Lincoln and Douglas if the other would have won the debate things could have turned out way different than they are today.