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The French Revolution was a period of radical, social, and political change in France from 1789 to 1799.
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The United States Census of 1790 was the first census conducted in the US, it recorded the population.
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By a 35 to 21 majority, the Excise Whiskey Tax proved unpopular with farmers and eventually started the Whiskey Rebellion.
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President George Washington was re-elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college.
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This was a political party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. It stood in opposition to the Federalist Party and controlled the Presidency and Congress.
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By being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers he was sentenced to death by the French National Convention, he was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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This was a small rebellion which began in Southwestern PA, it was a challenge to the National Govt of unfair use of an excise tax.
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This treaty was between the US and the Indian tribes.
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Washington wrote this letter near the end of his second term as President, before his retirement to his home Mount Vernon.
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Adams was the second President of the US.
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This act gave govt the right to deport aliens, forbade rebellious libel against US govt.
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In what is referred to as the "Revolution of 1800," Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams.
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This act represented an effort to solve an issue in the US Supreme Court during the early 19th century.
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The territory acquired from France in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States.
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an expedition across the Louisiana Territory.
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This was an expedition to the western and southern areas of the Louisiana Purchase to map the terrain and find the headwaters of the Red River.
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The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the US Congress against the UK and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
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This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. The intent was to damage the economies of the UK and France.
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This was fought between US forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American warriors associated with the Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
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This was a 32-month military conflict between the US and the UK. The outcome resolved many issues which remained from the American War of Independence.
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This war was a US victory in the War of 1812 against Great Britain.
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The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states.
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This was a secret meeting of Federalist delegates from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, at Hartford, Conn.
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Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo led to his second and final fall from power, and ended more than two decades of wars across Europe that had begun with the French Revolution.
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Monroe was the 5th President of the US.
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The Treaty of 1818 was a treaty signed in 1818 between the US and the UK.
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This was the first major financial crisis in the US followed by a general collapse of the American economy.
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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress.
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The US federal law that ended the ability to purchase the United States' public domain lands on a credit or installment system over four years, as previously established.
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The Erie Canal was completed in 8 years at a cost of $7 million.