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The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously as the first president in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to have received 100 percent of the electoral votes. Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789,
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The Bastille, a fortress and prison located in Paris, France, which represented the absolute monarchy France had lived with for so long, was destroyed by Parisian mobs marking the start of the French Revolution. which was caused by economic and political issues.
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The Industrial Revolution took place around the world and was a time when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology took place throughout the late 18th century an still goes on today. On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, one of the most famous inventions form the Industrial Revolution.
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Tthe Louisiana Purchase was sold to the U.S from France in 1803 for $15 million. This deal was made between Thomas Jefferson. the U.S President at the time, and Napoleon Bonaparte, the ruler and dictator of France. This purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.
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William Wilberforce begins his fight against slave trade and complains to Parliament Finally, the Slave Abolition Act of 1807 is passed on March 25, 1807 to abolish slave trade.
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The War of 1812 broke out for a variety of reasons, including Britain’s seizure of American ships, impressment of American sailors into the British navy and restriction of trade between the United States and France. On June 1 1812 James Madison became the first U.S. president to ask Congress to declare war.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church founded in 1816 by Richard Allen, a freedman who had been the first black Methodist to be ordained as a deacon.
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The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention.
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The Morman church was founded in April 6, 1830.
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German Christian Evangelist George Muller finds the Spiritual Knowledge Institution, an organization that support and care of children in schools here and abroad, and the provision of finance for evangelists, missionaries and mission organisations throughout the world, is found in March 5,1834
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Texas is Annexed as the 28th State of the U.S on December 29, 1845. James K. Polk was President at the time.
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The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–1859), an American seaman and missionary. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave.
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Hudson Taylor sails for China for the first time under Chinese Evangelization Society, September 19, 1853.
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D.L Moody, was a Boston shoe clerk, and at the age of 17 was converted to Christianity and became on of the worlds greatest American Evangelist.
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The Civil War Begins in the U.S between the North and the South, dividing the nation over slavery.
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The Salvation was founded by William Boothe in 1865. It is now a very successful mission that serves and helps millions of people nationwide.
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Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S on December 25, 1870 when President Ulysses S. Grant allowed to be Christmas celebrated to be celebrated as a national holiday.
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On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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he American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. The American Red Cross was established in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881, by Clara Barton, who became the first president of the organization.
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C.S Lewis is born on November 29, 1898 in Belfest Ireland. He is most famous for being an author of The Chronicles of Narnia Series and other books.
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The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful experiment in which a machine (aka airplane) carrying a man rose by its own power, flew naturally and at even speed, and descended without damage.
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Today, may of us are familiar with the Star of Hope Mission, founded in 1907. Today the Star of Hope Mission helps many families through their hard times. It was founded y Richard Dowling.
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