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Although it started in 1754 it ran until October 7, 1763. -
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It ran from May 25th, through September 17th, 1787. -
The cotton gin was a machine made to clean cotton of it's seeds. The inventor was Eli Whitney. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts was a set of four laws aimed at restricting immigration and limiting press freedoms. -
The Louisiana territory was purchased from France by United States president Thomas Jefferson. It sat at 828,000 square miles and was purchased for $15 million dollars, which nowadays is between $340 to $371 million dollars. -
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britian over the Royal Navy forcibly recruiting American Sailors and claiming they were British deserters, as well as British violations of U.S maritime rights. The war began June 18th 1812 and lasted until February 17th, 1815 when the Treaty of Ghent was ratified. -
The Missouri Compromise was a federal bill passed to appease the north which wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery and the south which wanted to expand it. It declared Maine as a free state and Missouri a slave state. -
The election of 1828 paved the way for modern political parties. While Andrew Jackson won the 1828 election and became the 7th president of the United States he also ran in the election of 1824, where he received the most electoral and popularity votes, but lost to John Quincy Adams. His loss in 1824 created National Republicans, who were supporters of John Quincy Adams, and Democratic republicans-now just known as Democrats- who were supporters of Andrew Jackson.