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Colombus set off from Spain
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Colombus made landfall in the Carribean
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On this date, 100 men established Jamestown.
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Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
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Pocahontas dies.
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The House of Burgesses was founded in Virginia. This controlled the $ in VA, the militia and was eventually able tp pass legislation.
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The Mayflower sets sail from England.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed by 41 men.
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Harvard was founded.
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Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachussetts Bay Colony for preaching "new and dangerous opinions." So she went to Rhode Island.
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King George III was born.
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The French take Fort William Henry in the Franch and Indian War.
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King George III takes the throne after the death of his grandfather.
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The Proclomation Act of 1763 was issued by King George III whuch prohibited settlement west of the Appalachians.
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The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament in order ot raise money for the war.
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The Currency Act of 1764 was passed by Parliament which ordered the colonies to to use British money and taxes had to be paid in gold and silver.
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The Stamp Act taxed documents and other paper products such as playing cards.
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The Quartering Act required the colonists to quarter soldiers in thier homes.
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The Tea Act was passed by parliament in porder to save the British East India Company from going bankrupt giving them a monopoly on the tea trade.
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In the Boston Tea Party, 10,000lbs. of tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor and done to provoke England into unwise reaction.
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The Boston Port Act was implemented which blocked off and closed the Boston Port.
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The Massachusetts Government Act was passed and shut down the colonial elected assembly.
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The midnight ride of Paul Revere. still celebrated in Boston as Patriot's Day
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Congress approved the Olive Branch Petition which said, "England, lets be friends."
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The declatory act was passed by parliament to show authority over the colonies
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The Battle of Bunker Hill. Colonist victory!!
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written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by 41 men and declared independence of the colonies from Britain
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The Treaty of Paris was officially signed marking the end to the Revolutionary War.
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The US Constitution was signed.
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French Revolution
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King Louis XVI was beheaded. Oops, I'm glad I'm not the French King.
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George Washington took the oath of office on Thursday, April 13, 1789, becoming America's first president.
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Pinckney's Treaty: with the Spanish and established the Southern boundary of the US against Spanish territory.
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John Jay's treaty was put into effect and it resolidified what was decided in the Treaty of Paris.
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John Adams takes the oath of office. Whoohoo!
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Convention of 1800: this voided the perpetual alliance with the French and created a commercial treaty with them.
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Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated. First president to take the oath of office in Washington DC.
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War with the Barbary Pirates: a non declard war that occured on the northern coast of Africa.
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America buys the Louisiana Territory for $15,000,000!
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The purchase of the Louisiana Territory was announced to the American people.
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The Embargo of 1807 was passed by Congress.
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The Non Intercourse Act was passed which established that there was to be no trading with England or France.
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James Madison takes the oath of office becoming the 4th president of the US.
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England and the US sign the Erskine Act which stated that Britain would drop the Orders of Council.
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Madison opens up trade with France and puts an embargo on England.
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The two term precedent was made a law by the passing of the 22 amendment.