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United States Politics
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The Constitution
This replaced the Articles of Confederation and gave the United States a new legal system and increased the federal authority, yet it still protected the basic rights of the citizens. -
Delaware is admitted into the union
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Pennsylvania is admitted into the union
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New Jersey is admitted into the union
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Georgia is admitted into the union
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Connecticut is admitted into the union
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Massachusetts is admitted into the union
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Maryland is admitted into the union
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South Carolina is admitted into the union
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New Hampshire is admitted into the union
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Virginia is admitted into the union
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New York is admitted into the union
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George Washington becomes the first president
George Washington became the first president of the United States. He was a federalist from Virginia. -
The bill of rights
Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution. The Ten Original Amendments: The Bill of Rights. Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. -
North Carolina is admitted into the union
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Rhode Island is admitted into the union
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Vermont is admitted into the union
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Kentucky is admitted into the union
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Tennessee is admitted into the union
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John Adams becomes the second president
John Adams becomes the second president of the United States and only serves one term. -
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of the United States -
Ohio is admitted into the union
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Lousiana Purchase
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery Expedition (1804-06), led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, among other objectives. In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France. -
James Madison becomes forth president
James Madison becomes forth president of the United States and is a republican from Virginia -
Louisiana is admitted into the union
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Indiana is admitted into the union
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James Monroe becomes the fifth president
James Monroe becomes the fifth president. Served as president from 1817 to 1825 -
Mississippi is admitted into the union
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Illinois is admitted into the union
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Alabama is admitted into the union
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Maine is admitted into the union
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Missouri is admitted into the union
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The Monroe Doctorine
This was very important because for so long was the Europe and the British all in Americas business and this basically told them they cant be politically involved with anything in the Americas. -
John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth president
John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth president. Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped U.S. foreign policy in line -
Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh president
Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh president and is on the face of the twenty dollar bill -
Arkansas is admitted into the union
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Michigan is admitted into the union
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Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth president
Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth president -
William Henry Harrison becomes the ninth president
William Henry Harrison becomes the ninth president, an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject -
John Tyler becomes the tenth president
John Tyler becomes the tenth president -
Florida is admitted into the union
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James K. Polk becomes the eleventh president
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina -
Texas is admitted into the union
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Iowa is admitted into the union
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Wisconsin is admitted into the union
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Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. -
Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. -
California is admitted into the union
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Franklin Pierce becomes the 14th president
Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation -
James Buchanan becomes the 15th president
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. -
Minnesota is admitted into the union
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Oregon is admitted into the union
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Kansas is admitted into the union
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 -
West Virginia is admitted into the union
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Nevada is admitted into the union
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Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th president
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. -
Nebraska is admitted into the union
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Ulysses S. Grant becomes the 18th president
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. -
Colorado is admitted into the union
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Rutherford Hayes becomes the 19th president
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. He became President at the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States through a complex Compromise of 1877. -
James Garfield becomes the 20th president
James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. -
Chester Arthur becomes the 21st president
Chester Alan Arthur was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States; he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination. -
Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president
Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. -
Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd president
Benjamin Harrison was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893 -
North Dakota is admitted into the union
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South Dakota is admitted into the union
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Montana is admitted into the union
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Washington is admitted into the union
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Idaho is admitted into the union
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Wyoming is admitted into the union
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Grover Cleveland becomes the 24th president
Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. -
Utah is admitted into the union
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William McKinley becomes the 25th president
William McKinley was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of the United States from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Oklahoma is admitted into the union
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William Howard Taft becomes the 27th president
William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. -
New Mexico is admitted into the union
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Arizon is admitted into the union
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Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th president
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. -
William Harding becomes the 29th president
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. -
Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. -
Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st president
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of economic programs. It was passed in 1933 - 1936. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
Harry Truman becomes the 33rd president
Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, coming to office on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the last months of World War II. -
Dwight Eisenhower becomes the 34th president
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. -
Alaska is admitted into the union
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Hawaii is admitted into the union
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John F Kennedy becomes the 35th president
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Lyndon Johnson becomes the 36th president
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office. -
Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. -
Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th president
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. -
Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. -
George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st president
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. -
Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. -
George W. Bush becomes the 43rd president
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. -
Barack Obama is officially sworn in as United States President
On this date Barack Obama is the first African American president and is the 44th president of the United States. -
Donald Trump becomes the 45th president
Donald John Trump is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States.
