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English people first settled in Jamestown, Virginia
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legislative body meeting at Jamestown.Each of the eleven local constituencies had two representatives, called burgesses, giving the name, the House of Burgesses.
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First set of laws for America for self government based on majority signed at Massachusetts.
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A Skirmish between British troops and a crowd in Boston British soldiers fired on the mob and killed five men. This event contributed to the unpopularity of the British in the years leading up to the American Revolution
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On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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At midnight on the 19th of April the British column, consisting of 650-900 troops left Boston, crossed the Charles River, followed closely by the alarm rider Paul Revere. As the British marched towards Concord, the entire countryside had been alerted to their presence, and rebel militia was deployed to meet them.
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the Declaration of Independencewas written by Thomas Jefferson.
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The Constitution was one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and was launched in 1797.
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the bill of rights was written To save the Constitution and the nation
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The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney eIt removes the seeds from th cotton
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A Permanent site for the capital city and, on dec 1, 1800 the capital moved.
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France sold the territory of Louisiana to the United States.
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The war declared as a result of long simmering disputes with Great Britian.
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Florida becomes part of the American Union.
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The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. This Journey was called the 'Trail of Tears'
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Congress overwhelmingly approved a declaration of war on may 13, but the United States entered the war divided.
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Gold was accidentally found in the riverbank by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California
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Written before the civil war, It was about the sufferings slaves
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Abraham Linclon was in 1860 elected
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Civil war begins
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Lincoln set the slaves free with the Emancipation Proclamation
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Civil Ends south surrenders,Lincoln Assassinated.
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Clinton ws not guilty 3rd time in history a president went through impeachment proceedings.
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Hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killing about 3,000 people.
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U.S. invade Iraq to remove its government.
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Obama became the 44th president first black president.