What happened in the US between 1800 and 1900?

- 1803: Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the United States.

- 1812-1815: War of 1812 with Great Britain.

- 1820: Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and sets the boundary between the two in the Louisiana Territory.

- 1846-1848: Mexican-American War.

- 1848: Gold Rush begins in California.

- 1850: Compromise of 1850 admits California as a free state, establishes the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and strengthens the Fugitive Slave Act.

1850-1900

- 1861-1865: American Civil War.

- 1862: Homestead Act gives public land to settlers.

- 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in the Confederate states.

- 1865: Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery in the United States.

- 1868: Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.

- 1870: Fifteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of race.

- 1890: Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies.

- 1895: Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the concept of "separate but equal" public facilities.

- 1898: Spanish-American War.

- 1900: Women's suffrage movement gathers momentum.