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by, Christopher Columbus
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from Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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by, William Bradford
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retold by Mourning Dove. Date estimated
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An Iroquois creation story. Date is estimated due to lack on information.
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The first successful settlement in the Americas. Began the movement of Europeans into the New England colonies.
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With the white Europeans expanding into America, the Native Americans were unhappy about their land being forced from them, and they fought for their homes.
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by, Olaudah Equiano
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Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
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the Puritan Traditions
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Salem Court Documents
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Becoming histaric from poisons in the food, young girls were having fitts and visions of locals in the comunity. The people of the time, being very superstitious, hung 19 accused victimes.
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Britian, after the war with the French and Indians, wanted the Americans to pay for the cost of it, so they raised taxes enraging the American population. This lead to the Revolutionary War.
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by, Benjamin Franklin
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Jonathan Edwards, a well known preacher, became a figure head through a sweeping revival throughout America.
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by, Jonathan Edwards
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by, Edgar Allan Poe
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America's official Document telling England that they can get out of American's business.
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bym Thomas Paine
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by, the American States officially stating their freedom
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The Americans, tired of British rule and Taxation Without Representaion, Revolted against the British. They were the first to revolt in this manner and inspired many similar revolutions.
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As a new nation, America created a flag, the stars representing the number of states. At this time, there were 13 stars.
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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
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After the Revoluitonary War, the congress chose their military leader as their president.
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Inspired by the American Revolution, the French commonwealth revolted against the tyrany resulting in a very bloody civil war/revolution.
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America bought the Louisiana territory for the French expanding America's land past the Mississippi river.
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Marbury had the right to his commission but the court did not have the power to force Madison to deliver the commission. The constitutional issue on which Marbury v. Madison was decided was whether Congress could expand the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
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by, Red Jacket
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This is Britian's attempt at taking America over and making it one of its colonies as it was before. This war tested America as a new country.
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by, Washington Irving
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President Andrew Jackson issued his Specie Circular. Jackson's purpose in issuing the Specie Circular was to curb speculation in land. The effect was to reduce the money supply by depreciating the value of banknotes which constituted a major part of the money supply.
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by, Fredrick Douglass
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by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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by, Henry David Thoreau
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This war was over a dispute about the boundary between Mexico and America.
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The court rules that Scott is still a slave.
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by, Nathaniel Hawthorn
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by, Walt Whitman
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by, Walt Whitman
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by, Walt Whitman
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Scott and his family gain their freedom.
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Lincon becomes president. Because of his election, many southern states succede the Union and become their own nation. Lincon lead America through the Civil War reuniting America into one nation. Lincon's 2nd term was cut short because of his assasination.
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The war was fought mainly over the issue of slavery.
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Granted African Americans fair/equal treatment.