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american history
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boston massacre
this event was called bloody massacre in king street, also called the state street massacre.the event is only filled with people seeing it and twisting top their advantage .such as british solders fired upon civilians for self defence, but colonist said they(solders)fired upon for no reason -
boston tea
this event was an american colonial defiance against taxation.members of the sons of liberty dumped tea into the bay of boston.resulted in the intolerable. -
lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought,kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, -
declaration of independace
this was an document that showed that america was indepedant from the control of the british. this was a result of the revolutionary war.all this showed was that britain could not do anything to america -
louisianna purchase
this purchase was from the french ,president thomas jeffersonn had purchased it this not only doubled the size of the us but it also created some tentsion between the north and south. -
civil war
this is it the north and south finally snapped parts of the south are seceding from the union and are forming the confederate staes of america. one after another begin seceding -
civil war (continued)
wars have been fought the south is begining to lose .the union is taking the confederates down gettysberg has happened and the confederates are running out of supplies and losing hope -
lincoln assassination
Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. As the conflict entered its final stages, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnapp the president and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, Lincoln failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait,but decided to kill
