1803
Louisiana Purchase from France (which had secured it from Spain) gives U.S. immense new territory and port of New Orleans.

1812 ..1815
War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain.

1830
Indian Removal Bill approved by U.S. Congress.

1831
Nat Turner slave insurrection in Virginia.

1836
Texas War for Independence from Mexico.

1844
Methodist Episcopal Church, South established as Methodists nationally split over sectional issues.

1845 ... 1848
Texas annexed by U.S. and war with Mexico follows.

1852
Running on ticket with Democratic presidential nominee Franklin Pierce, Alabama Senator William Rufus King elected Vice-President of U.S. (died April 1853).

1860
Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate (although not on Alabama ballot), elected President of the U.S. (November).

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