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Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of the United States.
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The Louisiana Territory is purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France, expanding the United States and jump-starting the Westward Expansion Movement.
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James Madison becomes the fourth president of the United States.
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James Monroe becomes the fifth president of the United States.
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John Quincy Adams becomes the Sixth president of the United States.
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Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh president of the United States.
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over 60,000 Native Americans are forced to move westward due to the Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth president of the United States.
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William Henry Harrison becomes the ninth president of the United States.
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John Tyler becomes the tenth president of the United States.
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James K. Polk becomes the eleventh president of the United States.
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Gold is found in California and many Americans begin to make the trip to California.
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Zachory Taylor becomes the twelfth president of the United States.
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Millard Fillmore becomes the thirteenth president of the United States.
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Franklin Pierce becomes the fourteenth president of the United States.
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James Buchanan becomes the fifteenth president of the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the sixteenth president of the United States.
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Tensions between the North and South becomes too much and a war breaks out, dividing the country until 1865.
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All slaves are freed in every region that the Union has control over with the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Andrew Johnson becomes the seventeenth president of the United States.
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The Civil War ends as things go back to normal within the United States.
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Ulysses S. Grant becomes the eighteenth president of the United States.