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in 1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue in search of a new route to india but instead he found the "New World"
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In 1565, the spanish founded St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.
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The French came in the early 1600’s, interested in fisheries and the fur trade.They settled along the St. Lawrence River in present day Canada.
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the english made their first permanent settlement in James Town, Virginia
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Europeans bring slaves to the United States and are put to work in plantatioins
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The House of Burgesses was the first governing group to meet in America in which settlers had their own representatives.It brought to the English colonies the belief held by the English people in the right of self-government.
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The Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts and sign the Mayflower Compact aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
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A war between England and France, called The French and Indian War begins in America.
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Protestors dumped tea into the boston harbor
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The Constitutional Convention meets to write a Constitution for the U.S.
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The new Constitution is approved by the states.
George Washington is chosen as the first president. -
the bill of rights was created
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The bill of rights waqs ratified
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Nations Capital Moved to Washington D.C.
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Abraham Lincoln is assasinated in ford's theater in Washington D.C. six days after the surrender of general Robert E. Lee
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Germany and Japan surrender, ending World War II. Japan surrenders after the U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Pearl Harbor got attacked by Japan
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Martin Luther King J.R gives his speech I Have a Dream
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President John F. Kennedy is killed in Dallas,Texas
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terrorist attack in the world trade center
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United States got to War with Iraq War
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1st African American president of the United States
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British General Cornwallis surrenders to the Americans at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the fighting in the Revolutionary War