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He will stay until 1809
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The Louisiana purchase, bought from France doubled the side of the country.
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8,000-mile expedition to explore the new Louisiana Purchase territory.
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The first contracts for The National Road are signed and the first 10 miles are constructed westward from Cumberland, Maryland, which will make westward migration possible.
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Indigenous peoples led by Tecumseh fight and lose a major battle opposing White settlement.
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The British burn the White House and the Capitol, but first lady Dolley Madison saves the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
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Andrew Jackson becomes an American hero at the Battle of New Orleans.
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Precariously balancing the practice of enslavement, holds the Union together, at least temporarily.
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The Erie Canal opens, making New York the Empire State.
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A tragic siege at the Alamo becomes a legendary battle in the Texas War for Independence.
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U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that quantities of gold have been discovered and Gold Fever strikes the thousands of people who rush to California.
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The ominous Compromise of 1850 over enslavement delays the Civil War.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act breaks the previous compromises over enslavement.
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The United States is torn by the Civil War.
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A hero of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) becomes president of the United States.
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President Ulysses S. Grant establishes Yellowstone Park as the first National Park.
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Lt. Colonel George A. Custer meets his end in an ill-considered fight with assembled Indigenous troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Rutherford B. Hayes wins the hotly contested 1876 presidential election, although not the popular vote.