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1803
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| January 30, 1803 - Discussion to buy New
Orleans begin
when Monroe and Livingston sail to Paris, ending with the complete
purchase of the Louisiana Purchase three months later. February 4, 1803 - The United States Supreme Court overturns its first U.S. law in the case of Marbury versus Madison, establishing the context of judicial review as they declared a statute within the Constitution void. This established the Supreme Court's position as an equal member of the three branches of United States government. March 1, 1803 - Ohio is admitted to the Union as the 17th U.S. state. April 2, 1803 - President Thomas Jefferson doubles the size of the United States of America with his purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon's France, thus paving way for the western expansion that would mark the entire history of the 19th century from Missouri to the Pacific Coast. The price of the purchase included bonds of $11,250,000 and $3.750,000 in payments to United States citizens with claims against France. December 20, 1803 - The United States of America takes title to the Louisiana Purchase, which stretches the United States from the Canadian border to the mouth of the Mississippi River. |
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| February 15, 1804 - New Jersey becomes the last
northern state to abolish slavery. May 14, 1804 - Ordered by Thomas Jefferson to map the Northwest United States, Lewis and Clark begin their expedition from St. Louis and Camp Dubois. The journey begins with navigation of the Missouri River. July 11, 1804 - The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr, longtime political rivals, occurs in Weehawken, New Jersey, culminating in the death of Hamilton. October 1, 1804 - The attack on Sitka, Alaska by Russians and their allies in the Aleut community laid siege on a Tlingit Indian fort. One week later, the siege was complete with the driving out of Tlingit forces. October 26, 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the confluence of the Knife and Missouri Rivers, in what is now the state of North Dakota, where they camped until the spring of 1805 at the hospitality of the Mandan and Minitari Indian villages. |
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1805
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| January 11, 1805 - The Michigan Territory is
established. April 27, 1805 - American Marines and Berbers attack the Tripoli city of Derna. Land and naval forces would battle against Tripoli until peace was concluded with the United States on June 4, 1805. June 13, 1805 - Meriweather Lewis and four companions confirm their correct heading by sighting the Great Falls of the Missouri River, as the Lewis and Clark expedition continues west. December 8, 1805 - Members of the Lewis and Clark expedition upon sighting the Pacific Ocean, begin to build Fort Clatsop, a log fort near the mouth of the Columbia River in present-day Oregon. The would spend the winter of 1805-1806 in the newly constructed fort. December 23, 1805 - The found of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, Jr. is born. |
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| March 23, 1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark and the
"Corps of Discovery" begin the several thousand mile trek back to St.
Louis, Missouri from their winter camp near the Pacific Ocean. The National Road, also known as the Great National Pike or the Cumberland Road, the first federally funded highway that ran between Cumberland, Maryland to Ohio, was approved by President Thomas Jefferson on March 29, 1806, with the signing of legislation and appropriation of $30,000. The highway ran through three states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. July 15, 1806 - A second exploratory expedition led by U.S. Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins from Fort Belle Fountaine near St. Louis begins to explore the west. Later that year, during a second trip, he reaches the distant Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains and discovers Pike's Peak. September 23, 1806 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition to map the northwest United States ended. Essential to the journey was Sacagawea, their female Indian guide. Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary. |
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 January 19, 1807 - Robert E. Lee is born. Would become a military officer, both with the U.S. Regular Army prior to the outbreak of Civil War, and afterwards, the American Confederate General. February 17, 1807 - Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Alabama, charged with a scheme to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico into an independent republic. Three months later, a grand jury indicts the former Vice President under the same charges. March 2, 1807 - Congress passes an act that prohibits the importation of slaves into any port within the confines of the United States from any foreign land. The first practical steamboat journey was made on August 17, 1807 by Robert Fulton in the steamboat Clermont, who navigated the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in thirty-two hours, a trip of 150 miles. This becomes the first commercial steamboat service in the world. September 1, 1807 - Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. |
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| January 1, 1808 - The importation of slaves was
outlawed, although between 1808 and 1860, more than 250,000 slaves were
illegally imported. February 1, 1808 - Anthracite coal is first burn, in an experiment, as fuel. April 6, 1808 - The American Fur Company is incorporated by John Jacob Astor. November 1808 - James Madison is elected as the 4th President of the United States, defeating Charles C. Pinckney. December 29, 1808 - Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to porter and church sexton Jacob Johnson and Mary McDonough. He would succeed Abraham Lincoln as president after his assassination and later be impeached for his role in removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Johnson would be acquitted by one vote. |
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| February 3, 1809 - The Illinois Territory is created. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is born in a humble Hardin, County, Kentucky log cabin to carpenter Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks on February 12, 1809. February 20, 1809 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the power of the Federal Government is greater than the power of any individual state. March 4, 1809 - James Madison is inaugurated, succeeding Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States. The U.S.S. Constitution is recommissioned as the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron. |
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Historic Travel Tip
America's Best
History Historic Travel Tip
Check out the multitude of National Parks, Forests, and other historic sites available in the states you travel through. Some little known attractions are gems. Go to the website of the National Park Service to check out state by state lists of the possibilities for your next vacation destination.
