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Jefferson elected President
Jefferson was elected President by the House of Representatives. Burr became Vice President. -
Marbury v. Madison
The Supreme Court issued a decision in Marbury v. Madison which overturned the Judiciary Act of 1789. -
Louisiana Purchase
On April 30, 1803 the nation of France sold 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 square km) of land west of the Mississippi River to the young United States of America in a treaty commonly known as the Louisiana Purchase. -
Indiana became the 19th state.
Indiana became the 19th state. -
Harvard Law School was founded.
Harvard Law School was founded. -
Former Presidents Jefferson and John Adams die
Former Presidents Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other on Independence Day -
Texas independence
Texas Revolution
Texas declares independence from Mexico. The storming of the Alamo follows 4 days later. -
Michigan became the 26th state.
Michigan became the 26th state to join the Union. This Midwestern state would go on to become an economic powerhouse -
Florida became 27th state
Originally controlled by the Spanish, Florida officially joined the union in 1845. -
Texas becomes the 28th state
Originally part of Mexico, the Republic of Texas became the 28th state. Events at The Alamo would pave the way for this joining of the Union. -
James Buchanan became 15th President.
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He is, to date, the only president from Pennsylvania and the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor. -
Lincoln elected 16th President
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.[2][3] In so doing he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the national government and modernized the economy. -
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, or simply the Civil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The states that remained in the Union were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, -
Opening of First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River.
