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Jamestown, was the first British settlement in America.
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Shakespeare dies
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Jamestown people arrive the enslaved Africans Americans.
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William Bradford was a longtime govenor and John Winthrop Jr. was a governor at Massachusetts, and role as a God's plan.
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Shah Jahan starts building the Taj Mahal a Indian Emperor
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The first public school was founded in Boston
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Some Puritans write simple sermons. The first book in North America was "Bay Psalm Book"
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The Tenth must Lately Sprung Up in America, first book by a North American Woman
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The Dutch found Cape town and the bottom of South Africa
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William Penn finds the colony Pennsylvania
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Isaac Newton Published Philosophiae naturalis principa mathematica most important work of Scientific Revolution
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Mass Hysteria shows in the witch trials
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Most important outlet for political writing was pamphlets. Between 1763-1783 two thousand pamphlets were established.
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The United States had ten slave states and ten free
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The Indian Removal Act, Native Americans moved westward, the whites had invaded their lands
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The Louisana Purchase has gotten a bigger country size
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Republic of Texas was annexed in 1845, and it went off to the Mexican- American War.
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They had first emerged in Europe in the 18th Century. Neoclassicism writers were looking for nature for inspiration, they celebrated emotions.
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Missourians crossed kansas border to elect legislature. Kansas voted outlawed slavery set up own capital Topeka
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Walt Whitman issued a book of poetry called "leaves of grass" It was a small book but had a great aspiration.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected for president, South Carolina secedes from the union and followed other states
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Harriet Jacobs's was a enslaved woman, and had a biography written about her called "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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Herbert Spencer was a English Philosopher, he had the idea of "Survival of the Fittest"
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Hiram R. Revels the First African American senator, takes a seat
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Mark Twain had written a ground breaking novel called "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" first novel written all in American writing. He was known for his gift of humor, while writing this novel.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. and put in the New York Harbor
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Henry Longfellow was the best member of the group. Other members of the Fireside poets are James Lowell, Oliver Holmes, John Whittier. Interested in abolition, women's rights.
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William McKinley was assasinatied; and Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president
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"The Great War" The war had started in Europe and to another 32 nations, 20 million had died during this war and ended in 1918
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In the 20th century woman had the right to vote. Also something called the Flapper had emancipated woman into new fashions
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The stock market crashed many businesses, banks, people lose their jobs 1933 by 25% the unemployment rate went down.
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Arthur Miller born in New York City 1915. In 1953 the play "The Crucible" during the Salem witch trials in 1692, he wrote a play about mass hysteria
