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800,000 square miles added to the Western Frontier
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The British naval ship "HMS Leopard" fires on the "USS Chesapeake" off the coast of Virginia.
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A trade embargo on all foreign nations. An act passed under Jefferson as a non-violent way of resisting tampering of US Ships by France and Britain.
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James Madison sworn in as the fourth president of the United States
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US declares war on Great Britain for the second time in history.
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USS Constitution defeats a British Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate known as the "HMS Java."
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40-60 American are killed in the "River Raisin Massacre."
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Fort McHenry bombarded and the first lines of "The Star Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key.
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Treaty of Ghent signed and ratified by the British.
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Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated as 16th president of the United States.
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The Confederate Army attack Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina marking the first military engagement of the Civil War.
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Ironclad warships clash; The Merrimack of the Confederacy clashes with the Union Monitor.
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Union Victory; Bloodiest day of the war
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Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all slaves.
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General Lee is surrounded by Grant’s forces in Virginia. He surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9 and the Civil War comes to an end.
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John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Kennedy in Ford's Theater.
