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tobacco causes cancer an heart disease
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The main thing to do on the Hopi reservation is walk through the picturesque pueblos built onto the top of the mesas
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The Magna Carta was signed in June 1215 between the barons of Medieval England and King John. 'Magna Carta' is Latin and means "Great Charter". The Magna Carta was one of the most important documents of Medieval England.
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In 1493, Ponce de León sailed with Christopher Columbus on Columbus' second voyage to the Americas
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On August 12, 1508 Juan Ponce de Leon, a soldier who had traveled with Columbus in 1493, invaded Puerto Rico
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This viral disease is relatively recent in human history and is believed to have come from cattle or possibly monkeys. It probably originated in the area around the Caspian Sea.
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Beyond the faults of the men at the helm, Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses brought to light serious issues regarding the nature of belief in Christ
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In 1534, Cartier was commissioned by King Francis I of France to explore the northern American lands in search of riches and the rumored Northwest Passage to Asia
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The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists,
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one of the first European explorers to ever do so. After building flatboats, de Soto and his 400 ragged troops crossed the great river
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The City of St. Augustine is the nation's oldest permanently occupied European settlement, having been founded by the Spanish in 1565
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The fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of America's most famous unsolved mysteries.
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many guards who stood nearby, among those waiting outside was 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz who was planning to kill President McKinley.
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Smith's name was on the list. On May 13, 1607 the settlers landed at Jamestown ready to begin the task of surviving in a new environment.
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On that day, Samuel de Champlain and the men hired by Pierre Dugua de Mons’s trading company landed at Québec.
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A Dutch slave trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619
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The King of England gave them a charter to make a settlement along the Massachusetts Bay.
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the ship it was traveling with, leaked. After deciding to leave the leaky Speedwell behind, Mayflower finally got underway on September 6, 1620.
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1st group of puritan settlers was led by john endecott. They began the settlement in salem massachusetts.
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led a group of 1000 puritans on 15 ships. He became the governor of the puritan colony
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She settled in Cambridge and began organizing meetings of Boston women in her home
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The New England Confederation was a group formed in 1643 between Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven
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The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was passed in 1649 by assembly of the Province of Maryland mandating religious toleration
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the Royal African Company was granted a similar monopoly in the slave trade
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One of the leading figures of early American history, Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat
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Queen Anne's War (1702-13) corresponds to the War of the Spanish Succession.
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The tea destroyed was contained in three ships, lying near each other at what was called at that time Griffin's wharf, and were surrounded by armed ships of war, the commanders of which had publicly declared that if the rebels
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Meriwether Lewis was born August 18, 1774 at the Lewis family estate, Locust Hill, in Albemarle County, VA. His family boasted many decorated soldiers, including his father,
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In 1776, he became a delegate to the revolutionary Virginia Convention, where he worked closely with Thomas Jefferson to push through religious freedom statutes,
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He retired from the Congress in 1776 rather than sign the Declaration of Independence.
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After evacuating with the army on June 19, 1778, he commanded a brigade during Monmouth. After the action there, he openly supported General Charles Lee — whom Washington had reprimanded upon finding him retreating from battle
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The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation.
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Jackson prospered sufficiently to buy slaves and to build a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville.
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On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it
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Jefferson was the first president to be inaugurated in the new and lasting capital of Washington, D.C. in March 1801.
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1818, Missouri Territory had gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state. Its settlers came largely from the South, and it was expected that Missouri would be a slave state.
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The Erie Canal is famous in song and story. Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east.
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In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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Describing the 1861 convention in which Virginians finally voted for secession, Lincoln declared to the U.S. Congress,
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Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889.
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On November 11, 1889, Washington becomes the 42nd state of the United States of America.
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the Wright Brothers designed their first aircraft: a small, biplane glider
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The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman recounts that story in all of its exciting detail. It is an excellent historical account for high school students.
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On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end following the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany that called for a ceasefir
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Cabot undertook a second, larger expedition in 1498. On this trip, Cabot may have reached America, but that is uncertain. Cabot's expeditions were the first of Britain's claims to Canada.
