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Columbis sailed for the Queen and King of Spain to discover other lands. Columbis thought he was on the shores of Africa but eneded up discovering America.
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Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia
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The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia
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The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.Before disembarking from their ship, the Mayflower, 41 male passengers sign the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that forms the basis of the colony's government.
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English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York
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January 17, Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston.
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Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston harbor and dump more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest against the British tea tax.
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General Gage orders 700 British soldiers to Concord to destroy the colonists' weapons depot. That night, Paul Revere and William Dawes are sent from Boston to warn colonists. Revere reaches Lexington about midnight and warns Sam Adams and John Hancock who are hiding out there.
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he Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition which expresses hope for a reconciliation with Britain, appealing directly to the King for help in achieving this. In August, King George III refuses even to look at the petition and instead issues a proclamation declaring the Americans to be in a state of open rebellion.
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The assembly of New Hampshire adopts the first American state constitution.
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Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" is published in Philadelphia. The 50 page pamphlet is highly critical of King George III and attacks allegiance to Monarchy in principle while providing strong arguments for American independence. It becomes an instant best-seller in America. "We have it in our power to begin the world anew...American shall make a stand, not for herself alone, but for the world," Paine states.
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The American revolutionaries get the much needed foreign support they had been hoping for. King Louis XVI of France commits one million dollars in arms and munitions. Spain then also promises support.
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England officially declares an end to hostilities in America.
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The Supreme Court of Massachusetts abolishes slavery in that state.
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The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain. Congress will ratify the treaty on January 14, 1784.
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In Virginia, the House of Burgesses grants freedom to slaves who served in the Continental Army.
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George Washington delivers his farewell address to his army. The next day, remaining troops are discharged.
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The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress. The Revolutionary War officially ends.
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General Washington gathers his officers and talks them out of a rebellion against the authority of Congress, and in effect preserves the American democracy.
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Russians establish their first settlement in Alaska, on Kodiak Island.
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June. The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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The electors' votes for president are officially opened and counted in Congress, which already knows that the vote is tied between Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
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Ohio outlaws slavery
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War of 1812 with Britain
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British burn Capitol building in Washington
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Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote
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Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
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Georgia prohibits the Education of Slaves
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Underground Railroad” established
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Nat Turner, a Baptist slave preacher, leads a revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, killing at least 57 whites.
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Texas declares independence from Mexico
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Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore
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Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico
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Mexican War
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
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America and Mexico sign Gadsden Treaty;
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Henry Bessemer invents process that allows mass production of steel
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CIVIL WAR
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Fort Sumter fired on, surrenders
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Lincoln shot, dies next day
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15th Amendment Ratified, giving Blacks but not women the right to vote
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Federal troops sent to Vicksburg to protect Blacks
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46th Congress has one Black member
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Thomas Edison produces the first electric light.
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Chinese Exclusion Act signed by President Arthur restricting Chinese Immigrants
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional
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50th Congress has no Black members. Intimidation kept Black voters from polls.
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Washington admitted as state
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December, Battle of Wounded Knee – 200 Native American women and children massacred by U.S. troops.
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TR HEAD OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
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Teddy Roosevelt made Secretary of the Navy
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Spanish American war started
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SOUTHERN STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT
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MCKINLEY ASSONATED – THEODORE ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENT
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WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT
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FORD INTRODUCES MODEL T
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NAACP FOUNDED
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TR RUNS AS PROGRESSIVE… WILSON WINS
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WORLD WAR I BEGINS IN EUROPE
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U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR I
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WORLD WAR I ENDS
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TR DIES – CARNEGIE DIES
