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Christopher Columbus unknowingly discovers America when he lands in the Bahamas in his quest to reach Asia.
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The first successful English settlement in North America
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Bacon rebels against Governor Berkeley over relations with the Indians
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Time period in which the idea that anyone can start over with God is prevalent.
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Tax on printed documents which affects and angers all colonists
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Event involving the British and Colonist over freedom, five colonists ended up getting shot and killed.
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In response to the Tea Act, a good deal of colonists throw tea chests off of British ships and into the harbor
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Battles of Lexington and Concord signify the start of a war between the colonists and the British
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This was a document which claims the states free and independent and lists the alleged crimes of the king.
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Daniel Shay and his followers rebel against the collection of debts, but the rebellion is broken up by troops.
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A compromise among a divided convention concerning the legislature and representation of the states.
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The Constitution answers questions involving sovereignty and limiting power. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote The Federalist papers. These papers explained the new form of government.
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Washington is the obvious choice to be the Nation's first president and is inaugurated on this day.
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There s much debate about whether to even have a bill of rights, but ten amendments are eventually ratified by the states.
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A refusal by Western Pennsylvania farmers to pay the new whiskey excise tax which led to an ultimately unsuccessful rebellion
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Marbury takes Madison to the Supreme Court to hand over his commission, but the Court decides against making him do so.
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Jefferson purchases Louisiana so that American trade access to the port of New Orleans will not be blocked.
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A War between the U.S. and Great Britain which resulted in a U.S. Victory
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James Monroe announces this policy which declares that the American colonies should not be considered for colonization by European powers.
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The Erie Canal which goes from the Hudson River to Lae Erie opens and heavy traffic quickly follows
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Andrew Jackson becomes the people president
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It was signed into law by Andrew Jackson. This authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Missippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
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William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing "The Liberator" Cheroee Nation v. Georgia
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A violent resistance in which sixty white southerners are killed while sleeping by Nat Turner and his followers
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Jackson removes federal deposits from bank of U.S
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A forced trek to Indian Territory out West in which thousands of Indians die
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Morse code is used to send signals along an electrical cable as a major advancements in communicaton
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Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, New Yor
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A powerful boom on abolitionism is published and becomes very popular
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An event in which abolitionist John Brown and followers kill five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas
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The Supreme Court ruling that Dred Scott would not be granted freedom from slavery, because he is not a citizen and could not bring the case to court.
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An event in which John Brown and followers seize an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in order to start a slave rebellion which is unsuccessful
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. Senator for Illinois.
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The First Battle of Bull Run signifies the war's beginning which ends with a Union Victory and the freeing of slaves
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After the civil war, The reconstruction was created to repair everything that had been destroyed in the South.
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From the beginning the War went badly for the North and its Union Army. However after winning the war at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. On April 9th, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant
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Lincoln is assassinated at Fordis Theater by John Wiles Booth.
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Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain
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Congress determines presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden
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President Hayes kept his campaign promise to remove federal troops from the South, ending the period known as Reconstruction.