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The signing of the mayflower compact was in 1620 and it was important because it set rules for the pilgrims in the world. Making sure they stayed loyal to King James and stay a Chirstian faith. -
The signing of declaration of independence was the first formal statement to a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
The Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Bleeding Kansas was the period of where a bunch of repeated outbreaks of anti-slavery forces following the Kansas territory. About 55 people were killed between 1855 through 1859. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was a signing where Abraham Lincoln declared that as of January 1,1863, that all slaves "Shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”