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THe english made their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607
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The eurpoeans brought African Americans to america to work as slaves in plantations
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Britian gains control of all North America.
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Protests by the french and english led to the Revolutionary war
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imingrants from western Europe arrived in great numbers: the settled in cities in the Northeast.
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The U.S purchased french terrtiory west of the Mississippi.
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Expedition explores the area of the Louisiana Purchase.
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industrialization booms in some cities; newcomers moved to rich farmlands in what is now the Midwest.
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began moving pioneers to the West.
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political and econimical tensions led to the civil war.
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It took four years of bloody fighting and many more years of ploitical conflicts to reunite the country.
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A symbolic golden spike is used to mark the composition of a transcontinental railroad across the United States
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Land available for settlment on the western frontier has nearly dissapeared.
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the u.s continued its westward expansion, annexing hawaii.
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use of an assembly line in ford auto olants streamlines manufacturing
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regular radio programming by station in pittsburgh begins the era of mass production
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The first mass television audience watches baseball's World Series.
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many students and others protested us involvement in a war between communists and non communist forces in Vietnam.
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the development of the integeated circuit would make the widespread use of computers possible.
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U.s manned exploration of space starts as Alan B. Shepard Jr,. is launched into suborbit of the earth.
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The U.S department of Defence developes a computer net work that later leads to the internet.
