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Washington is inaugurated.
Suggestions for addressing the president include "excellency" and "Highness." -
Congress meets in Philadelphia and plans a new capital on the Potomac.
First petition t congress to emancipate slaves is submitted by Quakers. -
Vermont enters the Union as the 14th state.
First bank of the United States is chartered for a twenty-year period. -
Washington and Adams are re-elected president and vice president.
Kentucky enters the Union as the 15th state; first state to grant universal manhood suffrage. -
Farmers in Western Pennsylvania protest the excise tax on whiskey, is put down by federal troops.U.S. troops defeat the Shawnee Indians near the Ohio River.
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Began when France attempted to bribe the U.S.
Commissioners in Paris, sparking the building tension between the nation's. -
Federal capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
Free African Americans petition Congress to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. -
Tripoli declares war on U.S.;Jefferson sens U.S. shops to the Mediterranean Sea. 25th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is celebrated.
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The war ended after U.S. troops captured Darna.
Lewis and Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean. -
Passed by congress,as required by the constitution.
Cotton is the U.S. leading export. -
U.S. population totals 7.2 million, including 1.4 million African Americans. 1.2 million African Americans were inslaved.
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The U.S. delcares war on Great Britian over issues of corders,trade,freedom of seas, and the rights of neutrals.
Louisiana enters the Union as the 18th state. -
New England Federalists who opposed the War of 1812 consider secession but compromise at the recommending constitutional amandments to protect state sovereignty. General, Andrew Jackson defeats British at the Battle of New Orleans
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Began with attacks on settlers in Flordia and Georgia.
Mississippi enters Union as the 20th state. -
Washington Irving publishes " Rip Van Winkle."
Alabama enters the Union as the 22nd state. -
U.S. population totals 10 million, including 1.7 million African Americans. 6% of Americans live in cities.
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Europe is warned not to interfere in Western Hemisphere affairs.
Cotton mills begin production in Lowell, Massachusetts, with water-powered machinery.
