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two hours after midnight land appered at the distance .He lands in the Bahamas.
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Landed on the coast os Florida on clombis second voyage
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first permanent english settlement in america on virgina
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Also known as the Seven Years’ War. struggle between Britain and France
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British troops fire into a mob, killing five men and leading to intense public protests.
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Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston harbor and dump more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest against theBritish tea tax.
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War of independence fought between Great Britain and the 13 British colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America. Battles of Lexington and Concord, Mass., between the British Army and colonial minutemen, mark the beginning of the war
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Great Britain formally acknowledges American independence in theTreaty of Paris, which officially brings the war to a close.
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Geroge Washinton was elected first president
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American acquisition from France of the formerly Spanish region of Louisiana. double the size of america
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Jackson administration has relocated nearly 50,000 Native Americans.forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River
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U.S. declares war on Mexico in effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest .
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Henry Bessemer invents a process for making steel out of iron. Having a way to make steel more quickly and more cheaply helps the production of building and leads to the growth of cities.
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Conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states.
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Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing slaves in the Confederate states.
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allowing settlers to claim land after they have lived on it for five years .
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va.
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gave African americans the right to vote
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Lt. Col. George A. Custer's regiment is wiped out by Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull at the Little Big Horn River, Mont.
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moved native americans out f there land and put them on reservations. try to americanized the native american
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U.S. to declare war on Spain .
