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Jefferson had become President
Thomas Jefferson had been elected in 1800 and only took office in 1801 and he had accomplished the Louisiana Territory purchase and had stabilized the United States economy. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a purchase from France that sold 530,000,000 acres of land for $15,000,000 and the Louisiana Purchase had doubled the size of the United States. -
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James Madison's Presidency
James Madison had started the War of 1812 since Great Britain had blockaded the United States and America had won the war. He also helped the United States recover from the War of 1812 since the British had sacked and destroyed Washington D.C. He was succeeded by James Monroe on March 4th, 1817. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was created by Henry Clay that would allow slavery in the Missouri territory, but their would be no more slave states to the west of the Mississippi River. -
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Andrew Jackson becomes President
Andrew Jackson had a profound impact on America because he had enacted the Indian Removal Act that would force the Indians in the South to be transported across the Mississippi River and was called the Trail of Tears. He also had lost the bank war to get the banks chartered so that the banks would not close. Andrew Jackson was one of the most important until Abraham Lincoln had taken office decades later. -
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from their land. The trip was thousands of thousands of thousands long and many died of disease, famine, and dehydration along the way. The cause of the Trail of Tears was because of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal policy. -
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The California Gold Rush
The Gold Rush started when James W. Marshall found gold Coloma California and since then people have flocked to the region to find gold. The Gold Rush had built San Francisco since people need tools and supplies to continue the mining for gold and by the end of the Gold Rush, 750,000 pounds of gold were excavated in California. -
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Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Abraham Lincoln was one of the most important president's in history because he wanted to abolish slavery and he had accomplished that by passing the Emancipation Proclamation. He had lead the country through the Civil War and during the beginning part of the reconstruction of the South because he was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. -
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War was a conflict about the issue of slavery between the North and South that resulted in a war that had begun with the South attacking Fort Sumter. The war had lasted for 4 years until Lee surrendered to Grand at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. Several months later, Congress had passed the 13th Amendment that had permanently banned slavery in the United States. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a major win for the Union because the Confederacy never had the resources or manpower to make such a big push into Union territory again. After the fighting had stopped on June 3rd, 51,000 people were dead, missing, or injured out of 150,000 men that were fielded on both sides of the battle.
