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Founded by the Virgina Company Jamestown was the first English settlement.
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Once settled with the first year the first legislative assembly occurred. While the first Jamestown people arrive along with their enslaved Africans.
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When the Pilgrims arrived, they settled at Plymouth and created their own colony about their beliefs.
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Large amounts of Puritans immigrants move to Massachusetts. The Puritans helped the community grow by bringing their strong religious values.
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Due to her religious beliefs Anne Hutchinson was exiled. While she was banished, she helped find somewhere that allowed more religious freedom called Rhode Island.
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King William's War created a lasting fight between many different colonies. The War was a fight between the Native Americans, colonists, the British, and the French.
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During the Witch trials people were so scared and panicked of the unknown so they made bad and unfair decisions about what should happen to the witches.
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After the war between the Britain and France, Britain was in debt, so they created new taxes that the people had to pay.
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The first new tax that was created to pay for the war. The stamp was required for all paper goods.
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A fight broke out between the soldiers and colonists about the new taxes. When a solider fired into the crowd and hurt or killed colonists in the crowd.
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During the protest colonists decided to throw tea from the British ships into the Boston Harbor.
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British troops tried to take over Concord and started a fight with the colonial army. This fight so was big that it started the Revolutionary War.
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The 13 colonies had enough so they decided to finally declare independence from Great Britain.
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A new government was created by The United States based on laws and shared power.
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President Thomas Jefferson authorizes the United States to purchase the Louisiana territory from France the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States.
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Trade and naval restrictions caused a war between Britain and America lasted for two and half years.
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A network of secret routes led by Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape to safe houses so they could escape slavery and be free in the North.
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Communication for the entire world changed when the first telegraph message was sent. It allows information to spread more quickly and easily than ever before
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Not longer after Abraham Lincoln became president the Confederate States secede from the Union and that is what started the civil war.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president. The southern states did not want him to become president because he was from the northern part of the country. The northern part abolished slavery and the south did not want too yet.
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One of the first states that would decide to secede or leave was South Carolina. They decided to make their own country rather than be part of the USA. 7 other states including Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana also decided to leave the USA.
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After seceding from the USA, the southern states form their own country called the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis is their president.
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The Civil War began when the Confederate Army decided to fire at Fort Sumter creating a conflict. Fort Sumter was a key fort held by Union troops in South Carolina.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest Civil War Battles and turning point of the war, leading to a Union victory.
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President Lincoln issues an executive order. The order was called Emancipation Proclamation, and it was to free all slaves.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was a major battle that the North won. When the north win this battle, they also start to win the Civil War.
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After the civil war was over and the surrender of Robert E Lee President Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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The Civil War ends when the Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant. He surrendered at The Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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Henry F Ford builds The Model T.
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In 1929 The Stock Market crashed. The crash triggered a major event called the Great Depression. During the Great Depression the economy collapsed, unemployment, and major changes in government economic policy.
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When Pearl Harbor was attacked it caused the United States to enter World War II. The attack was so dramatically it changed the course of the war.
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The end of World War II happened when The United States drops two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Using nuclear weapons never happened before.
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One of the key events that sparked the Civil Rights Movement was Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat. After this happened there was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, helping challenge segregation laws in the United States.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. It was a big accomplishment for the U.S. space leadership and advancing space exploration.
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The end of the Cold War happened when the Berlin Wall Fell. It led to a marking a major shift with the East and West of Germany. Which led to the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe.
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The United States go on a hunt to find the terrorist groups leader that was responsible for Sept 11. His name is Osama Bin Laden.
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On Sept 11, 2001 a terrorist group attacked the World Trade Centers in New York with planes.
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Hurricane Katrina happened and flooded New Orleans. The city was not prepared for the hurricane. So, after it happened they started to make better emergency plans.
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Social media started to become very popular and changed the way people could connect, share, and talk with their family and friends online.
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The great recession was a time where people were losing their jobs, houses, and having financial hardship. The recession led to major financial reforms.
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The leader of the terrorist group responsible for Sept 11 and providing justice to all those who died that day.
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Technology starts to become very important to living daily life. It allows you to communicate easier and faster and access to more information.
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It was a worldwide sickness that changed the way everyone lived. Everyone had to distance themselves, so everything was done at home like work, school, and grocery shopping.
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