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1835 in the United States

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1835
in
the United States

Decades:
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Events from the year 1835 in the United States.

Incumbents

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John Bell (W-Tennessee) (until March 4)
James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) (starting December 7)

Events

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  • January 8 – The Federal Government declares that Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.
January 30: First assassination attempt against a U.S. president.
July 4: Thomas Viaduct completed.
December 16–17: Great Fire of New York

Undated

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  • Judge William Harper of South Carolina rules that a person's acceptance as white, not the proportion of white and black blood, determine a person's race.
  • Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
  • Tensions between the United States and France reach an all time high as President Andrew Jackson and the French government of Louis Philippe I trade threats and insults over France's refusal to pay the United States reparations which the United States government insists France owes from the Quasi-War.[3]

Ongoing

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Trying to Assassinate President Jackson". American Heritage. January 30, 2007. Archived from the original on April 3, 2007. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
  2. ^ Ala. General Assembly. Journal of the House of Representatives. 17th sess., 30, accessed July 27, 2023
  3. ^ Andrew Jackson's Presidency by Christine Zuchora-Walske pg. 78
  4. ^ "Mark Twain | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
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