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George Washington was the commander and the army was made to fight Great Britain.
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The USMC conducted ship to ship fighting, provided ship security, and assisted in landing forces.
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The Declaration of Independence states that the colonies have the right to be free fro King George which is celebrated on July 4th.
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Congress adopted the AoC the first constitution of the US but ratification didn't happen until March of 1781.
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France and the US signed a "Treaty of Alliance" and the British were now apart of a worldwide war.
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The end of the Revolutionary War.
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The Constitution was worked on until September 17th however 3 refused to sign/ratify it.
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The 1st president of the US
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Articles 3-12 were ratified by 3/4 of the states
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The US gained the Lousiana territory from France in return for $15M which doubled the US' current size
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Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
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The US fought against Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights
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The telegraph was the telephone of the time and helped with long distant communications
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A rebellion of colonists from the US and Texas.
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A fight for Texas Independence
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After Jackson approved the Indian Removal Act he forced the Cherokee nation to give up all their land for the Europeans
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News began to spread that there was gold in California and over 300,000 people from around the world came for gold
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A war between the North and South about enslaved black people
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All slaves shall be freed
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The stage when the after the South seceded they came back to the US. The Reconstruction Era was the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
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Lincoln was shot in a theatre by John Wilkes Booth
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All men are created equal under the law and shouldn't be discriminated in public areas
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A war between the US and Spain
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After the Spanish gov't signed the Treaty of Paris because Cuba gained independence the treaty gave the US Guam and Puerto Rico
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Lindbergh, (born February 4, 1902, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died August 26, 1974, Maui, Hawaii), American aviator, one of the best-known figures in aeronautical history, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York City to Paris, on May 20–21, 1927.
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Caused by the assassination of the leader of Austria
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Connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
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Women=Vote
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Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920.Jan 6, 2020
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first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. The success of the KDKA broadcast and of the musical programs that were initiated thereafter motivated others to install…
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Wikipedia
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. Wikipedia
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D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944. On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D.
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The increase in the US population where a lot of babies were born
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The tension between the US and Soviet Union due to different ideologies
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The UDHR adopted was adopted by the UN
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Segregation in schools is unconstitutional
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Wikipedia
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History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub. L. 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote.
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Landed the first humans on the moon
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Resulted in the end of Nixon's presidential term
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A proxy war between North Korea (Soviet Union) and South Korea (the US)
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The buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia
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A concrete wall that divided Berlin from 1961-1989
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Terrorist Attacks by an Islamic group