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Began as a war between the UK and US but gradually turned into the British against US, France, Netherlands and Spain.
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"Common Sense" challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.
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The declaration is to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government.
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Declaration of Independence was made to declare the US to be independent of the British Crown.
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Washington and his troops surprised attacked The Hessians troops, and won.
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The colonies come together as one
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The treaty stated that it would aid to France if England attacked, and that neither France nor the United States would make peace with England until the independence of the United States was recognized.
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The treaty was a defensive alliance between France and the US. It promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future.
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was the original constitution of the United States
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The ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States ,
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It was influenced by the Enlightenment, Locke's ideas, and Voltaire's ideas. Original thirteen colonies
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Alexander Hamilton believed a central bank was necessary to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, and to improve handling of the financial business of the United States government under the Constitution.
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The Cotton gin made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States.
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George Washington passed away quietly at his home in Mount Vernon at the age of 67. He had a brief illness, and possibly serious throat and lower respiratory infection
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The Library Of Congress is the research library for the United States Congress.
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Was the first under the Northwest Ordinance. Nickname "Buckeye State"
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Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy New Orleans from France. France gave them New Orleans and the whole Louisana Purchase.
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the United States and those of the British Empire.
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Served as the nations federally authorized central bank during its twenty year charter.
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The act authorized President Jackson to negotiate with the Indians in the southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that travels from Albany, New York, to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
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"War between the States" was civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States. Eleven southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confedercy. The other twenty-five states supported the Union.
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Known as Pacific Railroad, it connected Iowa, Nebraska, Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California.
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Nevada became a state because its silver and gold production were needed to help finance the Civil War.
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Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery
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John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. Booth hated Lincoln because he was against everything Lincoln was for.
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Nebraska joined after the American Civil War. Platte sections in Nebraska were hostile to each other and bitter strife resulted.
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Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude, example slavery.
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The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, was treated equal in public. However the law was rarely enforced and overturned by the Surpreme Court in 1883.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone. He called it the "electroical speech machine"
