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Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain on a voyage he thinks is taking hime around the world to India.
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Christopher Columbus makes land fall and thinks he is in in India at first but actully lands in North America.
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a ship carrying settlers lands on the sight that is to be come the settlement of Jamestown
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the first meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses, which was a government that the state of Virginia created.
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The Mayflower Compact is an agreement for government and it resalted in the creation of town meetings
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Whole English families move to the new colonies. Around 70,000 came (dates are not exact, but mostly happened in the 1630s)
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It was a political and military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. Its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Native Americans.
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The French and and the Indians are against the colonist and the British. The Colonist/British win and so England starts turning more atention to the colonies
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This act prohibited settlement west of the Appalachaians. Colonist saw it as easy to get around and temporary.
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The Paxton Boys were upset because they were not protected, so they attacked and killed 20 Conastoga Indians.
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An act passes by Parliament that taxed molasis and surger and moved trials out of the colonies. Colonist protested it was against Englishmen rights.
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Said that Americans would provide barracks and public houses for housing British troops
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The Stamp Act, which said that most all paper products had to have a stamp, is repealed.
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All of the Townshend Acts are repealed by England except the taxes on tea
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A group of British Troops fired into a crowd of poeple in Boston killing five civilians.
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A move to try to save the british East India trading co. from going bankrupt, Parliament put a tax on tea.
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A group of colonist fed up with tea taxes dressed up as Indians and dumped 10,000 pounds of tea into the harbor.
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The 2nd quartering act that said that people had to house and give provisons to Briish troops.
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The war where America fought for its independance from England. It ended with the Treaty of Paris with America winning the war.
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The Olive Branch Pettition, which was a proposal for peace, is signed and sent to London. The King rejects it.
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this was the shot that started the American Revolutionary War at the battle of Old North Bridge.
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The Declaration of Independance declared that the 13 colonies were not a part of England anymore.
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A battle of the revolutionary war, it is know as the turning point of the war.
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The Land Ordinance of 1785 gives a way to divide up land in the west and says it can turn into 3 to 5 states.
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A group of farmers get fed up and have a small rebelion. It opens the eyes of the nation to that the Articales of Confederation are too weak
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this ordinace told how statehood would come about and what the requirments were for having a territorial legislature and a state constitution.
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The US Constitution is created by the Constitutional Convention but still has to be ratified by the states
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Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
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Pennsylvania is the second state to ratify the Constitution
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Vermont is the last state to ratify the US Constitution
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also know as the Treaty of Mortefontaine, made to settle the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi War
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Burr challanges Hamilton to a duel. Hamiltion has no intentions for killing but Burr shots him. He then dies the next day.
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Jefferson makes an embargo that says the US can't trade with anyone.
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Ended the embargo and made an embargo with just British and France.
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England agrees to drop Orders of Council if we stop the embargo on them. They end up backing out though.
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replaced non intercourse act said who ever drops their trade restrictions first, US trade with them and have embargo with the other
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Declaration of War by congress but the votes for the war was not that much of a majority
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a war between the US and Great Britain. After a while if fighting both countrys desided they could just stop fighting and no land changing would be in the treaty.
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opens up trade with Britain except for with the west indies
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James Monroe is elected president. Every one in the electoral college voted for him except for one person
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A treaty between the US and Britain that demilitarized the US/Canada border and great lakes
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US/Canada border set at 49th parallel and share Oregon territory
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said that the US can fish in the Grand Banks
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Also know as the Florida Purchase Treaty or Transcontinental Treaty, it settled a border dispute in North America between the United States and Spain.
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stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land in the Americas would be viewed, by the United States of America, as acts of aggression requiring US intervention.
