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Defeat at Yorktown
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Articles of Confederation
Congress adopts first constitution -
American independence
British recognize American independence -
Northwest Territory
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Constitutional Convention
adopted a new Constitution -
Constitution becomes law
ratified by 3/4 of the states -
First President
George Washington is elected to be first president of the US -
first US Census
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Bill of Rights
James Madison writes the first 10 amendments to the constitution. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin -
John Adams, 2nd president
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Alien and Sedition Acts
four laws passed by Congress amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent. The four controversial aws restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country and limited freedom of speech and of the press. -
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president
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John Marshall appointed Supreme Court chief justice
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Louisiana Purchase
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Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Slave trade to America becomes illegal
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james Madison, 4th president
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War of 1812
US defeats british for the last time -
The Star Spangled banner
Francis Scott Key writes song to celebrate a British defeat -
Missouri Compromise
Maine becomes the 23rd state and the 12th free state -
North and South is balanced
Missouri becomes 24th state and is the 12th slave state -
Florida is bought from Spain for $15 million
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Erie Canal is completed
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John Quincy Adams, 6th president
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Two famous deaths
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on Independence day -
Andrew Jackson, president
becomes 7th president -
Indian Removal Act
Cherokees and other Indians forced to move west. -
B&O Railroad
opens the first track for steam locomotives -
The Alamo
Mexicans kill every American soldier -
Battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston and his soldiers defeat Mexicans in a few minutes in retaliation for the Alamo. Secures Texas freedom -
Martin Van Buren, 8th presieent
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women's college
Mary Lyon opens Mount Holyoke college for women in MA. -
William Henry Harrison, 9th president
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John taylor, 10th president
Harrison died -
Morse Code
first telegraph message sent -
Go West
3,000 pioneers head west -
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Mexican American war
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Mormons move to Utah
Brigham Young leads mormons to settle in Utah -
Seneca Falls Women's Rights Declaration
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Gold Rush
California gold rush begins -
Compromise of 1850
to diffuse tensions between slave and free states -
Women's rights and Slaves rights
Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony -
Republican Party is founded
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Walden
Henry david Thoreau publishes Walden -
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass -
Dred Scott decision
U.S. Supreme Court determined the Constitution does not include citizenship for black people, so they don't get rights and privileges of citizens. -
Stagecoach travel
reaches California -
Comstock Lode
silver ore discovered in Nevada -
Pony Express begins
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Abraham Lincoln, 16th president