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The Third President
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The Second President
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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton developed the first commercial steam boat service up and down the Hudson River in 1807. -
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The Fourth President
James Madison -
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a three year war fought between Great Britain and America, over Britain's violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the Treaty of Ghent. -
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The Fifth President
James Monroe -
The Erie Canal
New York State completed the Erie Canal in 1825. The 350-mile-long human-made waterway linked the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean. The Success of this New York’s “artificial river” launched a canal-building boom. -
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The Sixth President
John Quincy Adams -
The First Long-distance Rail Line
The United States’ first long-distance rail line launched from Maryland in 1827. -
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The Seventh President
Andrew Jackson -
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
The Act granted the President authority to begin treaty negotiations that would give American Indians land in the West in exchange for their lands east of the Mississippi. -
The Transcendental Club
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The Eighth President
Martin Van Buren -
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The Ninth President
William Henry Harrison -
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The Tenth President
John Tyler -
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The Eleventh President
James K. Polk -
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The Twelfth President
Zachary Taylor -
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The Thirteenth President
Millard Fillmore -
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The Fourteenth President
Franklin Pierce -
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The Fifteenth President
James Buchanan -
The Beginning of the Civil War
The war officially begins in 1861, after decades of high tension between the Southern and Northern states over the topic of slavery. Seven states broke off and formed the Confederate States of America, which was then joined by four more states. -
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The Sixteenth President
Abraham Lincoln -
The Battle of Shiloh
This battle last two days and was the costliest single battle in American history up to that time. The number of casualties from the battle exceeded casualties from all of the United States’ previous wars combined. -
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American history with over 20,000 killed. It was also the first major battle of the Civil War to occur on Union soil. -
The Battle of Chancellorville
The Battle of Chancellorville was a great Confederate victory, however it was considered a great Chancellorville loss because of all of the casualties. The battle ended May 6, 1863 -
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most important speeches in American history, at a ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. In the speech he invokes human rights and equality and connected that with the sacrifices made in the war. -
The End of the Civil War
The Civil War ended in 1865 with Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. -
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The Seventeenth President
Andrew Johnson -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C, by John Wilkes Booth. -
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The Eighteenth President
Ulysses S. Grant
