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The American Revolution was the wars that freed the thirteen colonies from the British empire.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchasing of a section French territory in North America stretching from the Misssissippi River to The Rocky Mountains. This area now contains around fifteen states today
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The Civil War was between the northern states, known as the Union, and the southern states of the United States, known as the confederacy. The war ended in 1865.
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Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
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The United States entered the war on this date.
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The United States faught this war in Vietnam as an act against communism.
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Kennedy was shot durring a parade by Lee Harvey Oswald
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On this day the American astronauts on Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
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On this day Islamic extremeists hijacked 4 commercial planes and flew them into major American landmarks killing almost 3,000 people.
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Osama bin Laden was a leader of a terrorist organization in the Middle East.
