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Christopher Columbus landed in Guanahani.
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First permanent English settlement, known as Jamestown, Virginia
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Slavery was introduced to the colony of Virginia
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Mayflower ship lands in Cape Cod, Massachusetts with 101 colonists.
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Rhode Island enacts the first law which is slavery being illegal.
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The French establish a settlement at Detroit.
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First group of black slaves brought to Louisiana territory
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Ben Franklin began publishing the pennsylvania gazette, it becomes the most popular colonial newspaper
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Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony
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Uprisings by black slaves occur in South Carolina
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Iron act is passed in English Parliament, limiting growth of iron industry in America to protect English Iron Industry.
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The currency act prohibits the colonists from issuing any legal tender paper money.
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Stamp Act passed by English Parliament imposing the first direct tax on the American colonies. American colonists quickly unite in opposition by those who are most affected, which is scheduled to go in effect on November 1st.
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Mob Harasses British soldiers who then fire muskets into crowd, killing 3, mortally wounding 2 and injuring 6.
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Colonial activists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians and board the ship and dump all 342 containers of tea into the harbor.
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Beginning of American Revolution
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George Washington delivers farewell address, troops are discharged.
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Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress, Revolutionary war officially ends.
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Americans suffer from depression including a shortage of currency, nagging creditors, farm foreclosures and bankrupticies.
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Delegates vote to approve and sign the new Constitution
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Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana without asking for others opinions.
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Lewis and Clark began an expedition led by Sacajawea to survey the land being purchased.
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Thomas Jefferson was reelected president, he recieved votes from all state electors except Conneticut, Delaware, and two from Maryland. George Clointon was vice president.
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U.S. war with Britain began
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The british burned down the Capitol building in Washington to get back at the U.S./ provoke.
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Napoleon finally defeated at Waterloo
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote.
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Andrew Jackson was elected president.
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Georgia prohibits the Education of Slaves.
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Underground railroad was a secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before Civil War.
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Alabama makes it illegal for blacks to preach because Nat Turner, a Baptist slave preacher leads a revolt in Virginia killing at least 57 whites.
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Texas declares independence from Mexico.
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There was a large migration westward before the war.
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America goes to war with Mexico over land.
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Mexican WAr ends with treaty of guadalupe hidalgo. In exchange for 15 million dollars and settling of 3.25 million dollars in american claims, mexico cedes 500,000 sq miles of its territory in Western U.S,
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Compromise admits California a free state but fugitive slave law was enacted.
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Free Soilers establish government banning slavery of blacks from Kansas
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Henry Bessemer invented a process that allows mass production of steel.
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Lincoln was elected president
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Lee surrenders and then the remaining confedrate armies surrender, ending the war
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Lincoln was assasinated in a theater by john wilks booth
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15th amendment was ratified, giving blackes the right to vote before women.
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Blacks began to be elected into office.
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Civil rights act was passed guaranteeing African Americans equal treatment.
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President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker. But wasnot killed.
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Thomas Edison's Pearl Street station in New York City begins generating electricity to supply 400 street lamps and 85 customers with electrical power.
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The statue of liberty arrived in New York Harbor as a gift from france.
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At noon a startling gun shot announced the star of the Oklahoma land Rush where 50000 would-be settlers rushed to steak their claim.
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The Johnstown floodkilled more than2200 people after heavy rain destroyed the South Fork Dam.
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Ellis Island Immigration Station began processing immigrants to the United States.
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The Duryea Brothers road-testthe first-ever,rican-made, gasoline-powered automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Congress passes the first graduated income tax. The U.S. Supreme Court declares the "direct tax" unconstitutional the following year.
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The last great american gold rush beings when goldis discovered in the Yukon District of Canada
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The U.S. and the Philippine revolutionary forces began fighting.
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McKinley assassonated, Theodore becomes president
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Wright brothers flew their first flight
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The earthquake caused 700 deaths and destroyed the town
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Taft was elected president
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NAACP founded, for the blacks right
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World War I begins in France
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The US acquires the Virgin Islands
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US enters WWI with France, they need a bunch of soldiers.
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Zimmerman created the telegram
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The war ends with Treaty of Versailles
