| 1800 |
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The new city of Washington, D.C. becomes
the United States capital. |
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Free African Americans in Philadelphia unsuccessfully
petition the United States Congress to end enslavement. |
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A Philadelphia shoemaker is
the first to design shoes especially for the right and left
feet. |
| 1801 |
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Mastodon fossils are discovered on a New York farm, the
first skeletons ever found of the extinct mammal. |
| 1802 |
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Gideon Putnam builds a resort
hotel, one of the earliest in America, at Saratoga Springs, New
York. |
| 1803 |
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The United States more than doubles its size after
buying over 820,000 square miles of land, known as the Louisiana Purchase,
from the French government. |
| 1804 |
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Merriwether Lewis and William Clark
begin their exploration of the vast Northwest territory, traveling from
the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. |
| 1805 |
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A covered bridge, America's first, is built over the
Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. |
| 1806 |
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Zebulon Pike explores the territory that
later became the American southwest, discovering Pike's Peak, the famous
Colorado mountain named for him. |
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Congress authorizes improvements to the Natchez Trace, a
Native American trail running from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez,
Mississippi, turning it into a road for American settlers. |
| 1807 |
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Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont,
makes its first run from New York City to Albany in 32 hours, traveling at
the top speed of 5 mph. |
| 1808 |
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The United States prohibits the importation of Africans
for enslavement. |
| 1809 |
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William Maclure publishes the first
detailed geological survey of the United
States. |
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