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1820s
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Events and Trends
- Nationalistic independence movements helped reshape the world during this decade:
- Greece gains independence from the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1827).
- Several countries declared their independence from Spain and Portugal:
- The United Provinces of Central America were formed in 1823.
- United States (1825) The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
- Temperance movement emerges in U.S.
- Americo-Liberians begin to settle in the Colony of Liberia with the support of the American Colonization Society
World Leaders
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