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During the 1600s and 1700s, they settled to the south-on rivers and bays along the Atlantic coast from presnt-day Maine to Georgia.The english made their first permnent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.
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In 1617, the Europeans brought African Americans to work as slave laborers on cotton and tobacco plantations in the South. The coming of the Europeans also began what historians call the Colimbian Exchange.
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The French and the English eventually fought in North America over trade and territory. In 1763, Great Britain gained control of all of North America east of the Mississippi River.
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Lewis and Clark expedition expores the area of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Wagon trails begin moving pioneers to the west.
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A symbolic "golden spike" is used to mark the completion of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.
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Land available for settlement on the westwern frontier has nearly disappeared.
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Use of an assembly line in Ford auto plants streamlines manufacturing.
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One of the strengths of the untied states is the political system created by the U.S Constitution,drawn up in 1787.
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Regular radio programming by station KDKA in Pittsburg begins the era of mass communication.
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The first mass television audience wathches baseball's World Series.
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The development of the integrated circuit would make the widespread use of computers possible.
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U.S. manned exporation of space starts as Alan B. Shepard, Jr., is launched into suborbit of the earth.
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The U.S Department of Defense develops a computer network that later leads to the Internet.
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Mapping human genetic material (DNA) is a breakthourgh in biotechnology.
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In 1565, they founded St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.
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Britain’s 13 American colonies soon began to resent the policies forced on them by a government thousands of miles away across the Atlantic. Their protests led to
the American Revolution (1775–1783) and the founding of the United States of America. The new nation grew rapidly, and settlers pushed westward to the Mississippi.
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The United States nearly doubled in size when the government purchased the vast plains region between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains from france. This became known as the Louisiana Purchase.
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They founded St. Augustine,
Florida, the oldest permanent European settlement
in the United States.
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The English made their first permanent
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