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The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
1800s in American politics (11 C) Presidency of James Madison (4 C, 15 P) Presidency of John Adams (7 C, 19 P) Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (5 C, 32 P) W. Waite ...
Constitutional development in the United States Supreme Court during the 1790s (PhD). Drew University. Galluzzo, Anthony Michael (2008). Revolutionary Republic of letters : Anglo-American radical literature in the 1790s (PhD). UCLA. Irwin, Douglas A. and Richard Eugene Sylla, eds. Founding choices : American economic policy in the 1790s ...
The First Party System between 1792 and 1824 featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: The Federalist Party, which was created by Alexander Hamilton and was dominant to 1800; and the rival Republican Party (Democratic-Republican Party), which was created by Thomas Jefferson and James ...
1800 – Convention of 1800 (Treaty of Mortefontaine) – Ends the Quasi War between France and the U.S. 1803 – Louisiana Purchase Treaty – Acquire Louisiana Territory from the French First Republic. 1805 – Treaty with Tripoli [12] – Secured release of Americans being held in Tripoli, proclaimed peace and amity, and ended the First ...
January 7 – The Virginia General Assembly adopts the Report of 1800, a resolution drafted by James Madison arguing for the sovereignty of the individual states under the United States Constitution and against the Alien and Sedition Acts. April – Voting begins in the 1800 United States presidential election; it will last until October. The ...