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Considered first permanent English settlement
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The United States began a military rebellion against Great Britain as the Thirteen American Colonies which joined together as the United States of America.
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The USA regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America.
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This was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the war and recognized the sovereignty of the United States over the territory bounded roughly by what is now Canada to the north, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west.
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It was a meeting held by delegates from the 13 states that then comprised the United States. At first, the purpose of the convention was to address the problems the federal government was having ruling the states and staying fiscally sound under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation. What actually occurred was the formation of a new plan of government, which was outlined in the newly-drafted U.S. Constitution, which strengthened the federal government and remains the same today.
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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In this 1803 landmark decision, the supreme court first asserted the power of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution.
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It was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
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The war began after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories
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After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves began.
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Ended slavery
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Offical abolishment of slavery in the United States.
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Granted blacks citizenship and required states to give equal protection to everyone
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Prohibits prevention of voting based on race, color or previous condition of servitude such as slavery.
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A landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Britian join France to prevent invasion from Germany.
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!9th ammendment women got the vote across America.
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The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.The crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936.President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the programs in response to the Great Depression (wall street crash), and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
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A suprise attack on a US military naval base by the japanese, which lead to america joining WW2.
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Kim Il Sung invades south korea sparkind US intervention.
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US failed
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Nine black students enrolled in a white previously segregated school, caused many an issue.
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The United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement.
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The USA make a bad move.
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It was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict.
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One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. 'I have a dream'
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This prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin by federal and state governments as well as some public places.
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The Watergate scandal was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s, which eventully led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. It invloved someone breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, Nixon had prior knowledge of this scandal and he had tape recordings to prove it but refused to give them over when asked as he was president.The court then declared it unconsitutional, proving that no president was above the law.
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The supreme court ruled women could have abortions
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The USA OBVIOUSLY lost
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Sixty-six American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981), after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the US Embassy in Tehran.
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During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo (political scandal)
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(2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991)
On August 2nd 1990 Iraq started its invasion of Kuwait.
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Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice,
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It wasa series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
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Its goals are to strengthen domestic security and broaden the powers of law-enforcement agencies with regards to identifying and stopping terrorists.
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It is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the United States and its territories from and responding to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters.
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(19 March to 1 May 2003)
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Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes (at least 1,833 people died), in the history of the United States.
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It is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century.
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The Tea Party movement is an American political movement known for advocating a reduction in the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing U.S. government spending and taxes.
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The United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political independent expenditures by corporations, associations, or labor unions.
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is the new health care reform law, that attempts to reform the healthcare system by providing more Americans with affordable quality health insurance and by curbing the growth in healthcare spending in the U.S.
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The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed.
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The government entered a shutdown after Congress failed to enact legislation appropriating funds for 2014
