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1492
Columbus reaches the Bahamas
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Jamestown
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Plymouth
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Stamp Tax
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Stamp Tax
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King Philip's War
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Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre
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1st Continental Congress
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence
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United States Constitution Signed
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Missouri Compromise
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Trail of Tears
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Mexican War
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Gold Rush begins
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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American Civil War
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Homesteading the Great Plains
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Alaska Purchased
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Reconstruction
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Cattle Drives in Great Plains
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First Transcontinental Railroad
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Suez Canal opens
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Labor unions started
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Massive immigration to America
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Carnegie builds steel mill
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Plains Wars
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First telephone conversation--Alexander Grahm Bell--1876
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Edison invents electric light bulb
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Electricity for cities
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Jim Crow Laws created
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Progressive Era
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The Panic of 1893
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Hawaii becomes U.S. possession
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U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific Islands
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Spanish-American war
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United States becomes a world power
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U.S. takes over Panama Canal construction
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Wright brothers make first airplane flight
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Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
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U.S. opens the Panama Canal
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World War I
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Russian Revolution
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World Wide Depression
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World War II
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First Atomic Bomb Exploded
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Beginning of the Cold War
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Korean War
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American Civil Rights Movement
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Cuban Revolution
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Assassination of President Kennedy
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Vietnam War
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Collapse of Communism in Europe
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End of the Cold War; Break up of the Soviet Union
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Formation of the European Union