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Anne Lee came to the United States from England.
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Washington Irving became a very popular writer.
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The Grito De Dolores speech was given.
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Tariffs had risen steadily.
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Jackson had offered each Cherokee a choice. They could move west or settle down on 640 acres of land.
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Brittian and the U.S. had claimed the Oregon Country and agreed to occupy the region together.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was passed making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
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Boston set up the first public high school.
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Agustin de Itrubide took over.
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Texas had about 4000 Tenjaos.
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Stephen Austin led the first group of Americans to the Austin grant.
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Mexico was independent andnot a shot had been fired.
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Jedediah Smith led a party of hunters to western Wyoming.
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William Becknell became the first wertern trader to carryhis goods in Conestoga wagons.
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Thomas Cole began painting landscapes.
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The Cherokee adopted a constitution, based on the United States Constitution, for a Cherokee Republic
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New York abolished slavery.
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Jedediah Smith headed for California.
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Andrew Jackson won the presidential election of 1828.
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Jackson was sworn in as president.
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The Mexican government ended slavery.
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Congress passed the Indian Removal Act.
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Mexico closed Texas to Anglo-American settlers and banned the introduction of more slaves.
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Joseph Smith founded the Curch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion happend.
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Congress had the tariff lowered
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Chie Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no right to force the Cherokee to move.
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Congress voted to renew the Charter of the bank.
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The presidental election of 1832 was held.
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Sam Houston moved to Texas to practice law.
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Congress passed a Comprmise Tariff.
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Mexican Congress ordered the missions to turn over half their lands to the Indians.
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Santa Anna had becaome Mexico's dictator.
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John Sutter set out for America.
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The Seminole Indians refused to leave their lands in Florida.
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Santa Anna and his troops attacked San Antonio.
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The Banks Charter ran out.
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Martin Van Buren was elected for President.
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Mill owners in Lowell, Massachusetts raised the rent on the houses where the workers lived. The workers then whent on strike.
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Wesleyan College opened and was the first women's college.
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Texas asked Congress to be *annexed to the Union. *Added
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An American general called a truce to discuss peace with Oseceola.
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Almost 90% of the nation's factories closed down in 1837.
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The Collapse of the nation's money system caused the Panic of 1837.
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The Cherokee moved west.
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John Sutter headed for California.
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The Whigs chose William Henry Harrison to run for President.
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President Van Buren put in plaen-hour day for all public workers.
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Leaders of the antislavery movement gathered in London, England.
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The census of 1841 happend.
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A disease attacked thee potato crop.
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The Emigrants' Guide explained everything.
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A new Mexcican Government came to power.
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Maine passed a law banning the sale of liquor.
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Congress declared war on Mexico which started the Mexican War.
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Levi Strauss came to America.
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Brigham Young led a party out on the Oregon Trail.
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Mexico City fell to Genral Winfield Scott's troops.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War.
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The California Gold Rush of 1849 started.
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California became a state.
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Moby-Dick was published.
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Mexico sold the U.S. a strip of land for $10 million.
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New York passed a law giving women rights to their own property.
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Susan B. Anthony tried to vote in the presidnential election.
