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Christopher Columbus arrives at the Bahamas and encounters Native Americans and helps build an empire.
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This was the reveal of the idea that people could have strong religious feeling and didnt have to follow the churches, This made churches lose authority because people began to stray away from the strict rules of the churches.
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The stamp act was passed and it required colonists to place stamps on certain items. It taxed goods and caused colonists to rebel which then lead to violence and the removal of taxes because of boycotts and angry protests.
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The colonists fought and won the war in order to gain their independence. Afterwards, the Constitution was written and our first political parties were created. This launched our reformation to get established the government today.
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Thomas Paines pamphlet persuaded people to go for independence and later the Continental Congress declared the colonies independent.
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The treaty was signed because the British recognized the United States as a nation with borders form the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.
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Congresse made a new government which gave us the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
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The market revolution was a significant event because people began to buy goods rather than making them for themselves. This was beneficial to the ecomony and allowed for new inventions to start developing.
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The process made it possible to create steel faster which lead to more invetntions which leads into today and how we have alot of technology and tools.
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The building of the transcontinental railroad brought many people East to West. However, the money that it took to build train tracks cost so much it cause farmers to go into debt and make it difficult to repay their loans.
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The Civil War was fought in order to seperate the North and the South. It resulted in legally freeing the slaves due to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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This act brought thousands of people over to the United States because it offered cheap land to farmers.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued this document that stated all persons held as slaves would be free and people needed to recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will no act to repress such persons. This was huge because African Americans now had the option to be free.
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With more people settling, it increases industry. And industry increased because of the new technolgy that developed. Thomas Edison invented a research laboratory and changed the way people went about their daily lives.
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A reform movement that helped the poor and provided settlement houses. It was good for the settlement workers to live there and learn how to help solve the problems that the people in slum neighborhoods were facing.
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The Dawes Act tried to "Americanize" the Native Americans, taking away their land and forcing them to learn the English language and culture.
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The movement of demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt farmers and other workers to give the people a greater voice in their government was called populism
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A movement that helped people to realized that buisness competition was good and should be allowed. This gives people today their work ethic and responsibility.
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The Act was passed to give people fair buisness competetion. It has let us have sucessful buisnesses today and go without failure because competetion is fair.
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Theodore Roosevelt's deal with the Japanese. The government limited emigration of unskilled workers because the job competition was getting thick and jobs were scarce.
