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Colonial revolt in which the American Patriots won independence from Great Britain and established The United States of America.
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These battles were the first time the military got engaged in the American Revolutionary War.
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Fifty five delegates had a Constitutional Convention to talk about ways to strengthen the government. They replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.
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George Washington becomes president of the United States.
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Northern states did not want slaves too be counted towards the population because Southern states would have more power in the House of Representatives.
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An uprising of citizens who didn't want to pay a liquor tax that was put by Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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Thomas Jefferson paid Napoleon $27 million to purchase the Louisiana Territory.
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A conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom,
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War between the United States and Mexico.
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A war fought between the North and South beginning as a result of controversy over slavery.
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After the civil war, the country tries to resolve issues.
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What changed the legal status of 3.5 slaves in areas of the South from slave to free.
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John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in Ford Theatre in Washington D.C.
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The completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the US.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and gets his first patent in 1876.
