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The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America,
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This agreement that forms the basis of the colony's government.
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The British,were trying to gain back control but they couldnt and they klled 5 patriots .
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When Patriots disguisted themselves as Mohawk Indians and got on 3 British ships and dumped the tea on the harbor.
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When the Us fougth for their Independence from British.
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He was elected 1st president of the United States
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The U.S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, DC
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US purchased Louisiana territory from France,which extends west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
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U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion
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authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River
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declares its independence from Mexico
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U.S. declares war on Mexico in effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest
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Conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states.
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Lincoln is assassinated
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the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote
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U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany
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Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote
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first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem
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U.S. declares its neutrality in European conflic
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al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings
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President Bush labels Iran, Iraq, and North Korea an “axis of evil” and declares that U.S. will wage war against states that develop weapons of mass destruction
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Space shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board
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Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast, inundating the city of New Orleans with water from Lake Pontchetrain when the levees that maintain the below sea level city break.
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He was elected Presindent
