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Events

Aaron Burr’s treason trial
Alien and Sedition Acts
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Battle of Lake Erie
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of the Thames
Battle of Tippecanoe
Burr-Hamilton duel
Chesapeake Affair
Congressional vote to end slave trade
Election of 1800
Embargo of 1807
Expedition of Zebulon Pike
Fletcher v. Peck
Fries’ Rebellion
James Madison elected president
James Madison re-elected president
Jefferson re-elected president
Jefferson’s resignation as secretary of state
John Marshall appointed chief justice
Judiciary Act of 1801
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Louisiana Purchase
Macon’s Bill No. 2
Marbury v. Madison
Napoleon crowned emperor
Non-Intercourse Act
Pickering and Chase impeached
Shawnee religious revival
Star-Spangled Banner written
Treaty of Fort Jackson
Treaty of Ghent
Twelfth Amendment
Waltham-Lowell System in effect
War of 1812

People

Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Jackson
Benjamin Banneker
Francis Scott Key
James Madison
John Adams
John Marshall
Meriwether Lewis
Napoleon Bonaparte
Richard Allen
Sacagawea
Samuel Chase
Tecumseh
Thomas Jefferson
William Clark
Zebulon Pike

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Federalist Party
First Bank of the United States
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