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Thomas Jefferson was the third president elected. He drafted the Declaration of Independence, served in two continental congresses secretary of state under George Washington, and a minister in France.
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Thomas Jefferson was president and made the deal for the Lousiana purchase from France, and he only paid $15 million. This was 828,000 sq mi of land, that spread from Lousiana to Montana.
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This law stated that it was illegal to import Africans to America. This did not stop slavery, people till held slaves and slaves started to grow in population. Smuggling Africans in on ships still happened.
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This was a conflict between the United States and Britain. The British attempted to restrict U.S. trade. The British burned down the nation's capital during the war of 1812.
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This was the first financial crisis in America. The economy went down, people went bankrupt and lost their homes.
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president he was a soldier and a general in the military. He founded the democratic party and instituted policies that forced Native Americans to migrate.
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A slave by the name of Nat Turner led the largest slave rebellion in history. Nat Turner and rebel slaves killed around 50 whites, men, women, and children. Nat hid for a few months, in retaliation the state of Virginia executed 56 slaves and punished more if the state thought that the slaves were a part of or knew about the rebellion. Nat was found and hanged for his rebellion.
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The 11th president of the United States.
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Texas was the 28th state accepted into the U.S.
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16th president, he led the Civil War and he pushed for freedom for slaves. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
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The Civil War was the war between the Northern and the Southern states in America. The Northern states wanted to free the slaves, and the southern states wanted to keep slavery inn place. This made the southern states separate form the union and became known as the Confederate states.The northern states won the war, and slaves were freed.
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Reconstruction period was after the Civil War and congress sent military troops across the U.S. to make sure that states government was implementing the new law that slaves were to be free.
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This was called the Pacific railroad, the railroad stretched across from the east coast to the pacific side of the U.S. This made transportation across America in less time. Transporting goods in faster time to Americans on the Pacific coast.
