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Thomas Jefferson becomes the third U. S President
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figure in America's early development. ... Jefferson, who thought the national government should have a limited role in citizens' lives, was elected president in 1800. -
Napoleon forces Spain to sign the secret treaty
In 1762, during the French and Indian War, France ceded its America territory west of the Mississippi River to Spain and in 1763 transferred nearly all of its remaining North American holdings to Great Britain. ... In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France. -
George Washinton becomes president
George Washington was the first president after the American evolution. he was the first president -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789 -
Thomas Jefferson purchases the Louisiana territory form France
The Louisiana Purchase was a land purchase made by United States president Thomas Jefferson in 1803. He bought the Louisiana territory from France, which was being led by Napoleon Bonaparte at the time, for 15,000,000 USD. -
Lewis and Clark explore the northern Louisiana Purchase
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis chose William Clark as his co-leader for the mission. -
Dunbar and Hunter Explore the Quachiata River and Hot Springs
The Hunter-Dunbar expedition was one of only four ventures into the Louisiana Purchase commissioned by Thomas Jefferson. Between 1804 and 1807, President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark into the northern regions of the Purchase; Zebulon Pike into the Rocky Mountains, the southwestern areas, and two smaller forays; Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis along the Red River; and William Dunbar and Dr. George Hunter to explore the “Washita” River and “the hot springs” in what is now Arkansas and Louisiana. -
Freeman and Custis explore the Red River
The Red River Expedition, also known as the Freeman-Custis Expedition, Freeman Red River Expedition, Sparks Expedition, or officially as the Exploring Expedition of Red River in 1806, was one of the first civilian scientific expeditions to explore the Southwestern United States -
New Madrid earthquake
The 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes were an intense intraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.5–7.9 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day. They remain the most powerful earthquakes to hit the contiguous United States east of the Rocky Mountains in recorded history. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right. -
Fort Smith is Established
Fort Smith, county seat of Sebastian County, is located at the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers. The city lies west of Van Buren on the Oklahoma border. Fort Smith was established as a military outpost to patrol the neighboring Indian Territory in 1817 and was named after General Thomas Smith. -
Congress approves the Missouri Compromise
In February 1819, Representative James Tallmadge of New York introduced a bill that would admit Missouri into the Union as a state where slavery was prohibited. ... Opponents to the bill also questioned the congressional precedent of prohibiting the expansion of slavery into a territory where slave status was favored. -
Thomas Nut-tall Explorers Arkansas
English botanist Thomas Nuttall explored the Oklahoma wilderness during spring and summer 1819. Nuttall, born in Yorkshire, England, on January 5, 1786, traveled to America in 1808 to study botany. He became the protégé of the Philadelphia botanist Benjamin Smith Barton, who sponsored Nuttall on his first journey west in 1810. Nuttall explored Pennsylvania and the Michigan Territory, descended the Mississippi River to St. Louis, and ascended the Missouri in the company of fur traders. -
The territory of Arkansas is established.
The Territory of Arkansas, initially organized as the Territory of Arkansaw, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1819, until June 15, 1836, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas.
