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After unknowingly failing to find the short cut to Asia, Columbus successfully discovers the New World when he spots an island in the Bahamas.
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Nartin Luther nails the 95 thesis to the Catholic Curch door.
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Pizarro invades and conquers the Incan Empire.
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Queen Elizabeth's reign is often known as the Golden Age because it was an age of achievement and prosperity.
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This was the first permanent English colony originally set up by King James of England as a charter.
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This marks the beginning of slavery in a place that would soon rely very heavily on it.
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Private schools for boys, such as Harvard began to come about, although they were mainly for the wealthy.
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Anne Hutchinson and other "loud" members of the Puritan society were banished from the Massachusetts colony to Rhode Island.
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Louise XIV became King of France.
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A harsh slave code which goverened African slaves. This same code was later adopted by South Carolina.
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The King owed Penn's father a good deal of money and so since William's father was dead, he payed the debt to William by giving him the charter to found Pennsylvania.
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Crazed scheming Puritans tried to blame wich craft on each other to benefit themselves, this resulted in several hangings.
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Private Education was springing up.
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This was a coomon house hold book of the time.
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This war was surprisingly not fought over Jenkin's ear but a series of authority misshaps, which Jenkins ear was the excuse and trigger for.
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More Colleges were springing up, mainly for the rich and priveleged.
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Also called the Seven Years war, this war was fought in both America and Europe.
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Colonists were forced to allow British soldeirs to live in their houses.
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All Towsend Acts except the tea tax were repealed, partially as an apology from thr British for their actions at the Boston Massacre.
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Colonists were protesting against harsh British taxing and "accidently" a British soldier fired upon a colonists triggering more firing from his comrades at the group of colonists.
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First Continental Congress call for the abolition of the slave trade but it is decided to wait to inforce this for about twenty years.
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King George the Third foremally proclaims colonies on rebellion.
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The Amercan's officially dlared their freedom from Britain in the document named the Declaration of Independence.
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Thomas Pain wrote a pamphlet of how which became wide spread, It claimed that it was only commen sense that it was necssary to seperate from Britain.
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The Articles of Confederacy are put into effect.
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This was a system to allow for the more effective addition of new startes into the country.
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The Constitution was formerly put into action, after the ineffective Articles of Confederation were dismantled
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George Washington is elected President of the United.
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First official census of the United States.
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The Bill of Right were adopted onto the Constitution as Ammendments.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
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The University of North Carolina was founded, the oldest pubplic university in the United States.
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This treaty divided the lands of the New World between Spain and Portugal.
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Jefferson defeats Adams for presidency.
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Supreme Court case that established the power of judicial review.
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In 1808 Congress outlaws the slave trade (barely if at all effective).
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The United States declares war on Britian which begins the War of 1812.
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This was an event during the War of 1812 in which secession for the United States was being discussed.
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This was the final battle of the War of 1812. The U.S.defeated a British invasion intent on taking New Orleans.
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This Bank was charterd partially to assist reduce inflation and becuase the First Bank's charter had expired.
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The Missouri Compromise was basically a slave aggreement regarding slavery in the unsettled western territories.
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This was a pretty self explanitory act, signed by Pesident Jackson. Originally it was supposed to be voluntery. Indians were supposed to chose if they wanted to leave, but Removal Treaties were being forced.
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Joseph Smith founded the Mornon Church, one of the most succesful cults ever.
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President Jackson vetoes the bill to recharter the Bank of the United States.
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This was a time of extreme starvation in which the main staple was reduced to potatos. Ireland's population was reduced from somehere between 20 and 25%.
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Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. This, Like the cotton gin was imperitive to the progression of the Industrial Revolution.
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The Morman cult decided to migrate to Utah, to the Salt Lake City area to escape persecution.