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Juan Ponce de Leon landed on what he called La Florida
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Diliberance
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America was founded on tabacco.
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50 billion trees cover the landmass of what is soon to become the United States of America.
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Americans went aboard British ships in the harbor and dumped the tea onboard in the harbor.
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The shot that began the Revolutionary War and our fight for freedom from the British.
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Paul Reverie takes his famous Midnight Ride yelling the British are coming!
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20,000 people in New York.
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The declaration was signed and the United States became a free country.
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General John Burgoyne surrendered.
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General Cornwallis surrendered his army of 8,00 men to General George Washington at Yorktown.
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The first successful trial run of the Perseverance, the steamboat.
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George washington becomes the first president of the United States.
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The cotton gin was invented and spead up the production of cotton.
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The Louisana purchase was the greatest moment in history if not for the purchase America would be a really small country.
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The Americans declared war in 1812 for a number of reasons, including a desire for expansion into the Northwest Territory, trade restrictions, impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, and the humiliation of American honor.
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The Erie Canal is opened and opened up the midwest.
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America's first telegraph was sent and would help revolutionize communication.
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The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country, which had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818.
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The book that layed the groundwork for the Civil War
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He led 18 men in an attack on the Harpers Ferry Armory
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This confrontaion takes us into the bloodiest war on American soil The Civil War
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The first Battle of Bull Run was fought.
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Robert E. Lee charges into a battle known as Bullrun.
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The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought on this date at the same place as the fist Bull Run.
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Black slaves were to be set free from the south.
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Sherman's march begins.
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First patent issued for barbed wire.
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A one word message is sent saying "Done".
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A great american cowboy.
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The first sucessful test of the light bulb.
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The American Red Cross was established in Washington D.C.
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First mail order catalog.
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The Statue of Liberty was built.
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85 buffalo are left roaming the plains.
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The Spanish-American war was a short war but was a U.S. victory none the less.
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Henry Ford created the first car in the United States and he revolutioned it even more by mass producing them and making them affordable.
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A fire in a cloth factory kills 146 but will help create a better system for fire escapes.
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IBM was founded.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is seen as the immediate trigger that started WWI.
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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird invents what will be the modern day television.
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This was the day that the American economy started to dip and didn't come back up until the start of World War II.
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The start of one of the worst droughts in U.S. history which also led to gigantic dust storms.
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The Hoover Dam is designed and will be built.
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Elvis Presley revolutioned music as we know it today. If it wasn't for him rock-n-roll would not have become popular.
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Gene and her daughter Louise who both have resperatory problems are caught up in a gigantic dust storm.
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The Hoover Dam is finished and completed 2 years ahead of schedule.
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Joe Louis faces Max Schmeling for the first time and loses.
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Joe Louis beats Max Schmeling in their rematch.
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The purpose of the Korean War was to keep North Korea from becoming communist.
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The start of one of the most contriversial wars the U.S. fights in.
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The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other countries around the world.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon and did so by saying "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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4 students were shot dead while 9 others were wounded by the Ohio National Guard during a protest.
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The break in occured and would eventually lead to Nixon resigning which makes him the only president to do so.
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Microsoft was founded.
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Apple was founded.
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The Commodore PET was the first mass marketed personal computer.
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The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight.
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Terrorists hijacked 4 planes. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Centers in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon and one crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
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The war in Afghanistan began not even a month after 9/11.
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The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry.
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest and most cost worthy hurricane in U.S. history.
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The great depression of the late 2000's in which the economy is in need of a change. Obama has done nothing as president to help which is why he is not my president.
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The BP oil spill could have been avoided but was caused by a really stupid mistake by the head of BP.
