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Tea is introduced for the first time in colonies
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The first slave group was brought to Louisiana
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Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
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During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace.
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During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington.
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Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet.
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Gerorge Washington is the first president.
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congress passed a tax on all whisky.
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Minister to France in 1794-1796
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people start to rebel agents the tax, riots occur, tax collectors get tard and feathered.
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Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe.
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On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."
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Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803.
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James Madison, America's fourth President (1809-1817)
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Presidency March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
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Adams retired to his farm in Quincy. Here he penned his elaborate letters to Thomas Jefferson. Here on July 4, 1826, he whispered his last words
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Thomas died on July 4, 1826.
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March 4, 1829 March 4, 1837
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