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In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown to settle in. They named the town after the king at the time, King James I. This was the first permanent settlement in North America. -
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
The 1800 United States presidential election was the 4th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from October 31 to December 3, 1800.Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams by a margin of seventy-three to sixty-five electoral votes in the presidential election of 1800. -
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. -
Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
The nullification crisis was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States in 1832–33. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
The Battle of Ball's Bluff was an early battle of the American Civil War fought in Loudoun County, Virginia,in which Union Army forces under Major General George B. McClellan suffered a humiliating defeat. -
Fought on September 17, 1862, Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history with over 23,000 in roughly 12 hours. The battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862 and resulted in a Union victory. -
Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
In the American Civil War, a decisive engagement fought at Chattanooga on the Tennessee River in late November 1863, which contributed significantly to victory for the North. Chattanooga had strategic importance as a vital railroad junction for the Confederacy. -
Appomattox is most famous for the events of April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant to effectively end the American Civil War. -
On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.