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Christopher Columbus's first voyage was in 1492 and landed in the Bahamas.
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Amerigo Vespucci was the first person to discover North America and he called it the new world.
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Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador that led the a expedition that conquer the Incan Empire.
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Henry Hudson was a English sea explore he was know for exploring Canada. But in 1608 he sailed up the Hudson River and later was named after him.
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The industrial revolution change the world a lot because they had slow production but the industrial revolution change that because it started factory's for one purpose and mass production.
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Around 1764, Englishman James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny, a machine that enabled an individual to produce multiple spools of threads simultaneously.
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In May, 1787 the constitution was written and in 1789-1790 was ratified.
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This election had to good opponents. Hamilton and Jefferson were running for president.
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In the early 1800s, American Robert Fulton (1765-1815) built the first commercially successful steamboat.
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The Temperance movement was the ban on alcohol because no one want to work because they were drunk all the time.
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Around 1820, Scottish engineer John McAdam (1756-1836) developed a new process for road construction.
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Nat Turner, a slave, along with about 60 other slaves led a violent rebellion that resulted in the death of more than 50 Virginians. Nat and many others were executed for their part, or suspected part, in the revolt. Nat Turner's Rebellion struck long-term fear in the hearts of slave owners, which caused them to place new restriction on slaves and prompted a national debate on the slavery question.
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Disagreements erupted over whether land acquired from Mexico after the American war would become slave or free states. The compromises admitted California as a free, and the inhabitants of the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be allowed to decide whether or not to permit slavery in their territories when they applied for statehood. The compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which denied captured black legal.
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In the 1850s, British engineer Henry Bessemer developed the first inexpensive process for mass-producing steel.
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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.
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Fort Sumter is a sea fort, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Appomattox was fought on the morning of April 9, 1865 it was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
