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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, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
It kicked off the Revolutionary War. -
Officially, the Congress declared its freedom from Great Britain on July 2, 1776, when it approved a resolution in a unanimous vote. -
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.
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Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams. -
the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803 -
Congress passed a law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands -
conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States -
a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S -
the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia -
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War -
President Lincoln was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth. -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand. -
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army