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Thomas Jefferson elected March 4, 1801
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James Madison elected March 4, 1809
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First Bank of the United States charter expired
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Forced Creeks to relinquish millions of acres of land
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Placed relatively high duties on imports of cheap English cotton cloth
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Eliminated British ships from the great lakes
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James Monroe elected March 4, 1817
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Set boundary between US and British North America at 49th Parallel Oregon Country
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Guaranteed Spanish sovereignty over region
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First major depression
Abrupt drop in world agricultural prices -
many states instituted universal white male suffrage
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Born a slave
Is known for helping many slaves escape
had a bounty on her worth $40000 (~$1.5 mil in current money) -
John Quincy Adams elected March 4, 1825
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Andrew Jackson elected March 4, 1829
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Granted land in present day Oklahoma and Kansas to the indians
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Most famous slave rebellion
Turner and 70 armed slaves and free blacks Slaughter white neighbors who enslaved them -
Reduced tariff rates to modest levels of 1816 by 1842
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Made with a minor Cherokee fraction
All Cherokee made to abide by it and hade to leave their land -
Mexican army defeated
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Caused by Jackson shutting the bank down
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American authors encouraged to find their own style
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Theodor Weld
Teamed up with Grimke Sisters -
Martin Van Buren elected March 4, 1837
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Started transcendental “conversation”
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Most important transcendentalist communal
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John Tyler elected April 4, 1841
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William Henry Harrison elected March 4, 1841
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May 16, 1842
first organized wagon train left Elm Grove, MO with 100 pioneers -
1845: First clipper ship “Rainbow”
Made for speed -
James K. Polk elected March 4, 1845
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Nearly defeated Taylor’s Army
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1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized gathering of women’s rights
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Gold was discovered in California/Oregon
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Zachary Taylor elected March 4, 1849
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1850: First national women’s rights convention
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Millard Fillmore elected July 9, 1850
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Franklin Pierce elected March 4, 1853
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James Buchanan elected March 4, 1857
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Abraham Lincoln elected March 4, 1861
Killed 4-15-1865 -
Union soldiers marched from Washington toward Richmond, VA
to meet up with Confederate Army
28,450 Union Soldiers against 32,230 Confederate Soldiers -
70,000 Union Soldiers against 55,000 Confederate Soldiers
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87,000 Union Soldiers against 45,000 Confederate Soldiers
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100,007 Union Soldiers against 72,497 Confederate Soldiers
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65,085 Union Soldiers against 44,000 Confederate Soldiers
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Slavery would be legally abolished in all states out of Union
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97,383 Union Soldiers against 57,352 Confederate Soldiers
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56,359 Union Soldiers against 12,485 Confederate Soldiers
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77,000 Union Soldiers against 33,000 Confederate Soldiers
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34,863 Union Soldiers against 40,438 Confederate Soldiers
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101,895 Union Soldiers against 61,025 Confederate Soldiers
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100,000 Union Soldiers against 52,000 Confederate Soldiers
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Andrew Johnson elected April 15, 1865