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Date |
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| 1 | 1817 | - 4 Mar 1817—4 Mar 1825: Monroe/Tompkins admin
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| 2 | 1825 | - 4 Mar 1825—4 Mar 1829: Adams/Calhoun admin
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| 3 | 1829 | - 4 Mar 1829—4 Mar 1837: Jackson/Calhoun and Van Buren admin
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| 4 | 1832 | - 1832—1832: Cholera epidemic -major cities - in October over 4000 died in New Orleans
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| 5 | 1837 | - 4 Mar 1837—4 Mar 1841: Van Buren/Johnson admin
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| 6 | 1841 | - 1841—1841: Yellow fever epidemic (esp sevre in the south)
- 4 Mar 1841—4 Mar 1845: Tyler/(vacant) admin
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| 7 | 1845 | - 4 Mar 1845—4 Mar 1849: Polk/Dallas admin
- 29 Dec 1845—29 Dec 1845: Texas is 28th state admitted to the Union (population 2000)
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| 8 | 1846 | - 25 Apr 1846—2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War
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| 9 | 1849 | - 4 Mar 1849—9 Jul 1850: Taylor/Fillmore admin
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| 10 | 1850 | - 9 Jul 1850—3 Mar 1853: Fillmore/(vacant) admin
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| 11 | 1853 | - 4 Mar 1853—4 Mar 1857: Pierce/King and (vacant) admin
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| 12 | 1857 | - 1857—1859: Influenza (world wide, one of disease's greatest epidemics)
- 4 Mar 1857—4 Mar 1861: Buchanan/Breckenridge admin
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| 13 | 1860 | - 1860—8 Apr 1865: Civil War
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| 14 | 1861 | - 4 Feb 1861—4 Feb 1861: Confederate States of America formed
- 23 Feb 1861—23 Feb 1861: Texas 7th state to secede from the Union
- 4 Mar 1861—15 Apr 1865: Lincoln/Hamlin and Johnson admin
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| 15 | 1862 | - 1862—1862: Sabine Pass: Yellow Fever epidemic
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| 16 | 1863 | - 1863—10 May 1869: Construction of First Transcontinental Railroad
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| 17 | 1865 | - 1865—1877: Reconstruction Period
- 4 Apr 1865—4 Mar 1869: Johnson/(vacant) admin
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| 18 | 1868 | - 1 Jun 1868—1 Jun 1868: Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
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| 19 | 1869 | - 4 Mar 1869—4 Mar 1877: Grant/Colfax and Wilson admin
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| 20 | 1877 | - 4 Mar 1877—4 Mar 1881: Hayes/Wheeler admin
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| 21 | 1881 | - 4 Mar 1881—9 Sep 1881: Garfield/Arthur admin
- 19 Sep 1881—4 Mar 1885: Arthur/(vacant) admin
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| 22 | 1885 | - 4 Mar 1885—4 Mar 1889: Cleveland/Hendricks and (vacant) admin
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| 23 | 1889 | - 4 Mar 1889—4 Mar 1893: Harrison/Morton admin
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| 24 | 1893 | - 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: Cleveland/Stevenson admin
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| 25 | 1897 | - 4 Mar 1897—9 Sep 1901: McKinley/Hobart and (vacant) admin
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| 26 | 1901 | - 14 Sep 1901—4 Mar 1909: T Roosevelt/Fairbanks admin
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| 27 | 1909 | - 4 Mar 1909—4 Mar 1913: Taft/Sherman and (vacant) admin
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| 28 | 1913 | - 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Wilson/Marshall admin
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| 29 | 1917 | - 6 Apr 1917—28 Jun 1919: World War I (U.S.involvement)
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| 30 | 1918 | - 1918—1918: Spanish Influenza (more people hospitalized in WWI from influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps with 80% death rate in some camps)
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| 31 | 1920 | |
| 32 | 1921 | - 4 Mar 1921—2 Aug 1923: Hardin/Coolidge admin
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| 33 | 1923 | - 2 Aug 1923—4 Mar 1929: Coolidge/(vacant) and Dawes admin
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| 34 | 1929 | - 4 Mar 1929—4 Mar 1933: Hoover/Curtis admin
- 29 Oct 1929—1934: Great Depression
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| 35 | 1933 | - 4 Mar 1933—12 Apr 1945: FD Roosevelt/Garner, Wallace and Truman admin
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| 36 | 1941 | - 8 Dec 1941—2 Sep 1945: World War II, from U.S. declares war on Japan to Japan's surrender.
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| 37 | 1945 | - 12 Apr 1945—20 Jan 1953: Truman/(vacant) and Barkley admin
- 6 Aug 1945—9 Aug 1945: 6th: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
9th: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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| 38 | 1950 | - 25 Jun 1950—27 Jul 1953: Korean War
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| 39 | 1953 | - 20 Jan 1953—20 Jan 1961: Eisenhower/Nixon admin
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| 40 | 1961 | - 20 Jan 1961—22 Nov 1963: Kennedy/Johnson admin
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| 41 | 1963 | - 22 Nov 1963—20 Jan 1969: Johnson/(vacant)Humphrey admin
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| 42 | 1964 | - 7 Aug 1964—29 Mar 1973: Vietnam War
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| 43 | 1969 | - 20 Jan 1969—9 Aug 1974: Nixon/(vacant) and Ford admin
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1883 - 1969 (~ 85 years)