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Events relating to north america
The US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Laws, enabling southern slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves in northern states
The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain
George Washington uses military force to assert government authority on rebels in Pennsylvania refusing to pay a federal tax on whisky
Indian tribes, at peace talks in Fort Greenville, cede much of Ohio to the USA
After the Fort Greenville concessions, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh emerges as a champion of Indian territorial rights
A treaty negotiated by US minister Thomas Pinckney provides a temporary resolution of disputes between Spain and the USA
US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France
George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization'
George Washington, resisting pressure for him to accept a third presidential term, delivers a farewell address to guide the nation's future
The election in the USA brings in a Federalist president (John Adams) and a Republican vice-president (Thomas Jefferson)
US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context
Controversial Alien and Sedition Acts are passed by the US Congress as emergency measures in response to the perceived threat of war with France
The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska
The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington
US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone
Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election
The US House of Representatives votes for Jefferson as president, after a dead heat between him and Burr in the Electoral College
In the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price, doubling the size of the USA
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from St Louis to explore up the Missouri river and west to the coast
Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded by a bullet to the head in a duel with his political adversary Aaron Burr
George Rapp and his followers establish a utopian community in Pennsylvania and call it Harmony
Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific
Tecumseh's younger brother, Tenskwatawa, becomes known as the Shawnee Prophet
Lewis and Clark get back to St Louis with a wealth of information about the unopened west of the continent
Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America
