PERIOD X.--AGE OF LIBERTY ESTABLISHED.
A.D. 1800 TO A.D. 1824.
18OO. INDIANA TERRITORY formed,--July 4.
LOUISIANA ceded to France by Spain by secret treaty,--Oct. 1.
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT removed to Washington, D.C.; Congress met,--Nov. 17.
1801. THOMAS JEFFERSON inaugurated president,--March 4.
MILITARY ACADEMY established at West Point, N.Y.,--March 10.
TRIPOLI declared war against the United States,--June 10.
1802. GEORGIA'S cession of territory to General
Government,--April 24.
OHIO admitted to the Union,--Nov. 22.
1803. LOUISIANA ceded to the United States by France for
80,000,000 francs,--April 30. (By this cession the United States
claimed to the present western boundary of Florida.)
1804. The _Philadelphia_ destroyed by Decatur at
Tripoli,--Feb. 16.
DUEL between Hamilton and Burr, at Hoboken, N.J.,--July 11.
TWELFTH AMENDMENT to the Constitution declared in force,--Sept. 25.
ORLEANS TERRITORY formed,--Oct. I.
DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA formed, same as Louisiana cession, less Orleans
Territory,--Oct. I.
1805. LOUISIANA TERRITORY formed,--March 3.
JEFFERSON'S second presidential term began,--March 4.
TREATY OF PEACE concluded with Tripoli,--June 4.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY formed,--June 30.
1806. BONAPARTE'S Berlin Decree,--Nov. 21.
1807. BRITISH "ORDERS IN COUNCIL" requiring goods to land in
Great Britain,--Jan.
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