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The Spanish founded St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest European settlement in the United States
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The French and English settled to the south on rivers and bays along the Atlantic coast from present-day Maine to Georgia.
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The English made their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.
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Europeans brought Africans to America to work as slave laborers on cotton and tobacco plantations in the South.
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Great Britain gained control of all of North America east of the
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When Great Britain gained control of all of North America east of the Mississippi River Britain’s 13 American colonies soon began to resend the policies forced on them by a government
thousands of miles away across the Atlantic. Their protests led to the American Revolution and the founding of the United
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the U.S. Constitution was drawn up
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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 (Louisiana Purchase)
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importation of slaves was banned
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Wagon trains begin moving pioneers to the West.
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Rising political and economic tensions between an agricultural South dependent on slave labor and the more industrialized North led to the Civil War
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the first transcontinental railroad across the United States was
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used to mark the completion of a transcontinental railroad
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about 17 million people lived
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The United States continues its westward expansion, annexing Hawaii.
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Use of an assembly line in Ford auto plants streamlines manufacturing.
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Regular radio programming by station KDKA in Pittsburgh begins
the era of mass communication. -
the United States was the only major nation that had escaped physical damage and had a healthy economy.
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first mass television audience watches baseball’s World Series.
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Mapping human genetic material (DNA) is a breakthrough in biotechnology
