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Delaware is admitted as a state
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Pennsylvania becomes a state
Known as the "Keystone state" -
New Jersey becomes a state
Known as the "Garden state" -
Georgia becomes a state
Known as the "Peach state" -
Connecticut becomes a state
Known as the "Constitution state" -
Massachusetts becomes a state
Known as the "Bay state" -
Maryland becomes a state
Known as the "Old line state" -
South Carolina becomes a state
Known as the "Palmetto state" -
New Hampshire becomes a state
Known as the "Granite state" -
Virginia becomes a state
Known as the "Mountain state" -
New York becomes a state
Known as the "Empire state" -
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George Washington's presidency
Washington reluctantly served a second term as president. He refused to run for a third, establishing the customary policy of a maximum of two terms for a president. -
North Carolina becomes a state
Known as the "Tar heel state" -
Rhode Island becomes a state
Known as the "Plantation state" -
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The Whiskey Rebellion
The rebellion was a tax protest on the United States. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and the ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. -
Vermont becomes a state
Known as the "Green mountain state" -
Kentucky becomes a state
Known as the "Bluegrass state" -
Tennessee becomes a state
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Washington's farewell address
It was Washington's valedictory after 20 years of service to the new nation. -
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John Adams presidency
John Adams' greatest accomplishments include becoming the first Vice President and the second President of the United States as well as establishing many of the basic ideas and principles that made up the U.S. Constitution. -
Alien and sedition acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798. The laws were purported to strengthen national security, but critics argued that they were primarily an attempt to suppress voters who disagreed with the Federalist party. -
Chief Justice John Marshall
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1801–1835). His court opinions helped lay the basis for United States constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. -
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Thomas Jeffersons presidency
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. During his two terms in office (1801-1809), the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory and Lewis and Clark explored the vast new acquisition. -
Luisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. -
Marbury v Madison
Marbury v. Madison,(1803), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. On February 24, 1803, the Court rendered a unanimous (4–0) decision,[23] that Marbury had the right to his commission but the court did not have the power to force Madison to deliver the commission. -
Ohio becomes a state
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Lewis and Clark expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May 1804, from near St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. -
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James Madison presidency
The war in Europe dominated James Madison's Presidency. The previous policy of the Embargo Act had failed, and Madison repealed it with the Non-Intercourse Act, which allowed trade with any country except the belligerents. -
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its American Indian allies. Seen by the United States and Canada as a war in its own right, it is frequently seen in Europe as a theatre of the Napoleonic Wars, as it was caused by issues related to that war. -
Louisiana becomes a state
Known as the "Bayou state" -
Indiana becomes a state
Known as the "Hoosier state" -
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James Monroe presidency
Established the landmark Monroe Doctrine, which announced the United States' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas. Also bought Florida from Spain and extended America's border to the Pacific through the Treaty of 1818 with Britain. -
Mississippi becomes a state
Known as the "Magnolia state" -
Illinois becomes a state
Known as the "Prairie state" -
Mcculloch v Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. -
Dartmouth college v Woodward
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819), was a landmark decision from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations. The case arose when the president of Dartmouth College was deposed by its trustees. -
Transcontinental treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy. -
Alabama becomes a state
Known as the "Cotton state" -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. Seperate free and slave states. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. -
Maine becomes a state
Known as the "Pine tree state" -
Missouri becomes a state
Known as the "Show-me state" -
Monroe doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. -
Gibbons v Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation. The case was argued by some of America's most admired and capable attorneys at the time. -
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John Quincy Adams presidency
But with few notable exceptions, like the building of the Cumberland Road, he was unsuccessful in persuading Congress to adopt his program. Despite being elected by the House after failing to win a majority of either the electoral or popular vote, he did nothing to expand his coalition and was handily defeated by Andrew Jackson in the next presidential election. -
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Andrew Jackson's presidency
Jackson kept a watchful eye on expenditures and appropriations, vetoing bills that he thought did not benefit the country, while his predecessors had vetoed bills only if they deemed them unconstitutional. He monitored the activities of government officers, eventually replacing about 10 percent of them because of corruption, incompetency, or because they opposed him politically. -
Trail of tears
The Trail of Tears commonly refers to a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, who chose not to assimilate with American society, from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern U.S. to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
Abolitionist movement
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west. -
Nat Turners rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831 Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Horace Mann
Mann saw revenue for education rise precipitously over the twelve years of his tenure (1836–1848). He popularized the idea of a centralized bureaucracy to manage primary and secondary education. He advised the legislature on fiscal responsibility in implementing equal programs throughout the state. He standardized the requirements for the diploma. -
Arkansas becomes a state
Known as the "Natural state" -
Michigan becomes a state
Known as the "Great lake state" -
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Martin Van Buren presidency
He enforced the Indian Removal Act of 1830 removing Cherokee and other native peoples from their homes and relocating them west of the Mississippi, an event known as the "Trail of Tears." He strained relations with Britain and its colonies following the Aroostook War and the Caroline Affair. He also denied Texas' formal request to join the United States in 1837 in favor of maintaining sectional harmony in the nation. -
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William Henry Harrison presidency
He was elected to the White House in 1840, but passed away a month after his inauguration, the first U.S. president to die in office. -
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John Tyler presidency
Found foreign policy successes in his signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Britain and Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. Presided over the annexation of Texas in 1845. -
Fredrick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818-February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory -
Manifest destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny: The special virtues of the American people and their institutions;
America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America;
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Florida becomes a state
Known as the "Sunshine state" -
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James polk presidency
Polk announced his support both for the annexation of Texas and for the "reoccupation" of all of the Oregon Territory, which the United States then jointly occupied with the British between the latitudes of 42° and 54°40'. With his supporters pushing the slogan, "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight," Polk thus balanced the idea of a new slave state (Texas) with the possibility of a new free state (Oregon). -
Texas becomes a state
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Mexican American war
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico (which became the Second Federal Republic of Mexico during the war) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory, despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
Iowa becomes a state
Known as the "Hawkeye state" -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. -
Seneca Falls convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention, it was soon followed by other women's rights conventions, including one in Rochester. -
Wisconsin becomes a state
Known as the "Badger state" -
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Zachary Taylor presidency
He clashed with Congress over his desire to admit California to the Union as a free state. In early July 1850, Taylor suddenly fell ill and died. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
The Seneca Falls Convention was followed two weeks later by an even larger meeting in Rochester, N.Y. Thereafter, national woman’s rights conventions were held annually, providing an important focus for the growing women’s suffrage movement. After years of struggle, the 19th Amendment was adopted in 1920, granting American women the constitutionally protected right to vote. -
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Millard Fillmore presidency
As an anti-slavery moderate, Fillmore opposed Abolitionist demands to exclude slavery from territory gained in the Mexican War and supported the Compromise of 1850 instead. -
California becomes a state
Known as the "Golden state" -
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Franklin pierce presidency
Signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the new territory of Kansas to decide its own stance on the legality of slavery. This was deeply unpopular in the North and led the Democratic Party to drop Pierce's nomination for a second term. -
Josh brown and the armed resistance
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. During the 1856 conflict in Kansas, Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Dred Scott v Sanford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. -
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James Buchanan presidency
He supported the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which determined that slaves were not citizens of the United States regardless of what state (free or slave) they were living in. -
Minnesota becomes a state
Known as the "North star state" -
Oregon becomes a state
Known as the "Beaver state" -
Sojourner truth
Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. -
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Abraham Lincoln presidency
Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process (Emancipation Proclamation) that led to the end of slavery in the United States. He is also remembered for his character and leadership, his speeches and letters, and as a man of humble origins whose determination and perseverance led him to the nation's highest office.
