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columbus goes to find america which thought to be part of asia.
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the mayflower traveled to america to create a colony to get away from the king of england.
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mob of patiots throwing snowballs at british soldiers and got killed and injured.
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Taxed tea being thrown off the british ships as a protest
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America is finally independant from the ruling king of england.
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to end the Seven Years' War. Also made Britain a even more dominant force outside European borders.
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gives every U.s. Residents the rights of america.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the event in which the United States paid the French $15,000,000 for most of the mid-western states, doubling their prior size as a nation.
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This legislative action made Texas a part of the United States. This also sparked the turmoil behind the Mexican-American War.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
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Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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Abraham Lincoln comes to national attention in a series of seven debates with Sen. Stephen A.
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Abolitionist John Brown and 21 followers capture federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president
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Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the war
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Lincoln issued this Emancipation Proclamation which stated all slaves were to be freed under union territory
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Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC,
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President Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives
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Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000 people homeless
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the radio is invented
