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1823
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| An expedition up the Red River and along the 49th
parallel led by Stephen Long marks the point of the official border
between the United States and Canada. Funding for the creation of the Albany Basin, in Albany, New York, is appropriated. April 3, 1823 - American political boss, William Marcy Tweed, was born. December 2, 1823 - In a speech before Congress, James Monroe announces the Monroe Doctrine, stating the policy that European intervention anyplace is the Americas is opposed and that he would establish American neutrality in future European wars. |
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1824
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| March 11, 1824 - The Bureau of Indian Affairs is
established by the United States War Department. They appoint
Ely
Parker, a Seneca tribe member, as its first director. This
department is meant to regulate trade with Indian tribes. In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the first strike by female workers, occurs. November 1824 - When the Electoral College vote yielded no majority, John Quincy Adams would be elected president by the House of Representatives, outpolling fellow Democrat Republicans, now a loose coalition of competing factions, including Andrew Jackson, who had actually received a higher number of Electoral College votes, 99, than Adams, 84. It was not a majority due to votes for Henry Clay, 37, and William Crawford, 41. In the first election with popular vote totals, Adams garnered less votes there as well, with 105,321 to 155,872 to Jackson. A frontier treaty between the United States and Russia is signed, negotiated by Secretary of State under James Monroe, John Quincy Adams. Russia agreed to set its southern border at 54 degrees, 40 minutes and allow U.S. ships within the one hundred mile limit of its Pacific territories. |
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1825
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| February 12, 1825 - In the state of Georgia, the
Creek Indian tribe give up their last lands to the United States
government and moved west. March 4, 1825 - John Quincy Adams in inaugurated as President, with John C. Calhoun as his Vice President, after the House of Representatives settle the lack of a Electoral College majority. October 26, 1825 - Use of the Erie Canal began in Buffalo, New York with the first boat departing for New York City. This opened up the Great Lakes region by cutting the travel time between the two cities one third and shipping costs nine tenths. Cost of the canal was $7 million. On November 4, 1825, the first boat navigating the Erie Canal arrived in New York City. The opening of the Erie Canal contributed to making the city of New York a chief Atlantic port. November 26, 1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, is formed at Union College, Schenectady, New York. The first experimental steam locomotive is built and operated by John Stevens, of Hoboken, New Jersey. |
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1826
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| April 1, 1826 - The internal combustion engine named
the "Gas Or Vapor Engine" is patented by American Samuel Morey. July 4, 1826 - Two founding members of the United States pass away on Independence Day; Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President, and John Adams, 2nd President. On the same day, Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet, is born. September 3, 1826 - The first United States warship to navigate the world, the U.S.S. Vincennes, leaves New York City under the command of William Finch. October 26, 1826 - Kit Carson, mountain man of the western lands, is wanted in Franklin, Missouri. A reward of one cent is offered for his return to his bondage to learn the saddler's job in Franklin. In 1826, David Jackson, for whom Jackson Hole, Wyoming is named, as well as Jedediah Smith and Williams Sublette purchase William Ashley's interest in the fur trade, and the company, later to become known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company when these men sold in 1830, continued to profit from the fur trade across the mountain west. |
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1827
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| In New York State, the statue that would end slavery
in the Empire state, was passed. February 28, 1827 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, and would become the first railroad in the United States to offer transportation for people and commercial goods. July 14, 1827 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is held in the Hawaiin Islands and leads to the foundation of the Diocese of Honolulu. September 21, 1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims the angel Moroni gives him a record of gold plates, later translated into The Book of Mormon. Below picture, later this century, Mormon emmigrants travel by covered wagon. C.W Carter photo circa 1879.  The Senate ratifies the treaty that establishes the Sabine River as the Mexican and United States border. |
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1828
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| July 4, 1828 - The first passenger railroad in the
United States, the Baltimore and Ohio, begins. November 1828 - After a tumultuous four years of national politics saw the formation of the Democratic party behind Andrew Jacskon and the supporters of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay as the National Republicans, The election for president sees a popular and electoral college vote victory of 178-83 for Andrew Jackson over President John Quincy Adams. December 19, 1828 - Opposing the Tariff of Abominations, the state of South Carolina declares the right of state nullification of federal laws. The American Dictionary of the English Language is published by Noah Webster. |
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1829
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| February 26, 1829 - Levi Strauss, American clothing
designer and jeans entrepreneur, is born. He would be
credited
with manufacturing the first "blue jeans." March 4, 1829 - Andrew Jackson, now in the Democratic party, is inaugurated as President, replacing John Quincy Adams after his sole term in office. July 23, 1829 - William Austin Burt, of the United States, invents and patents the typewriter, at the time called the typographer. The Smithsonian Institution (picture below) is founded when British scientist James Smithson bequeathed one hundred thousand pounds ($500,000) from his estate for its initial funding, on the condition that his nephew have no heirs. The establishment of the Smithsonian would be passed by an act of Congress in 1846 and was completed in 1855. The Smithsonian complex, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., now includes 19 museums and 142 million items in their collection. |
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