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efferson asks Congress for funds for an expedition to explore the Mississippi River and beyond in search of a route to the Pacific
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Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel at Weehawken
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He receives the votes of all state electors except those of Connecticut, Delaware, and two from Maryland. George Clinton is his vice president.
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British warships have been boarding and searching American ships and seizing American as well as British seamen
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citizens of the U.S. or resident within the same, are conspiring & confederating...against the dominions of Spain" and requiring that all military and civil officials of all states and territories of the United States prevent "the carrying on such expedition or enterprise by all lawful means within their power
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He escapes but is recaptured and imprisoned. In April, Burr is charged with treason and tried in Richmond in a federal circuit court presided over by John Marshall.
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Three American seamen are killed and eighteen wounded as the British force a boarding and remove four alleged deserters. After learning of the attack on June 25, Jefferson calls an emergency cabinet meeting.
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james madison is elected president
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War of 1812 with Britain
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at the Battle of the Thames (in which
Tecumseh is killed). British burn Buffalo, New York. -
DC, including the White House.
U.S. wins Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor
(witness Francis Scott Key later writes “The Star-Spangled
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(two weeks after Treaty of Ghent is signed).
American settlers begin large migration to the “Old Southwest” (Alabama and Mississippi). -
that is intended to protect U.S. industry rather than raise revenue.
Second Bank of the United States begins its twenty-year charter.
Indiana enters Union as 19th state. -
to connect the Great Lakes and the Ohio
and Mississippi valleys with the Hudson River (and the Atlantic Ocean).
Seminoles attack white settlers in Florida and Georgia.
Mississippi enters Union as 20th state.
William Cullen Bryant publishes “To a Waterfowl.” -
ownership as a requirement for voting.
Illinois enters Union as 21st state. -
to charter a national bank, thus affirming that
it holds “implied powers” beyond those stated in the Constitution (Mc
Culloch v. Maryland).
U.S. acquires Florida from Spain by treaty; Andrew Jackson becomes military governor in 1821.
Alabama enters union as 22nd state. -
MO, to Santa Fe, NM.
First American settlers (300 families) arrive in Texas.
Massachusetts and New York end property qualifications for voting.
First public high school opens in Boston.
First American tunnel (450 ft.) opens in Pennsylvania. -
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old. Several hours later John Adams, aged 90, dies in Massachusetts, and the nation is struck by this remarkable coincidence.
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Lincoln elected President