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Shays Rebellion
Revolutionary war veteran Daniel Shay led american farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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Norhtwest Ordinance of 1787
An act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787.
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Finished Constitution
The members of the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Federalist Papers
The Federalist is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Abe Lincoln elected President
Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president of the United States, the first Republican president in the nation who represents a party that opposes the spread of slavery in the territories of the United States. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Union Army under General Irwin McDowell initially succeeds in driving back Confederate forces under General Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard, but the arrival of troops under General Joseph E. Johnston initates a series of reverses that sends McDowell's army in a panicked retreat to the defenses of Washington.
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Pacific railway Act of 1862
The "Pacific Railroad Acts" were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.
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Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect. Applauded by many abolitionists including Frederick Douglass, there are others who feel it does not go far enough to totally abolish slavery.
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Theodore Roosevelt elected President
A leader of the Republican Party, he was the spokesman for the Progressive Era.
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First MLB World Series
First time the National league and the American league played in an official Wold Series.
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William H. Taft elected president
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson elected President
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement. -
George Bush elected President
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9/11 Terrorist Attacks
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States in New York City, New York, and Arlington County, Virginia, on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
2003 invation of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States. The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland -
The Bush Doctrine
The term "Bush Doctrine" applies to the foreign policy approach that George W. Bush practiced during this two terms as president, 2001-2009. It was the basis for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
