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Everyone had to get a piece of the new continents and islands. Everyone. It was almost an obligation.
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Columbus accidentally discovers an entire new landmass shortly after landing in the Bahamas whilst trying to chart a new India trade route.
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Henry the 7th of England had heard of the new area and commissioned John Cabot to go check it out. This is the earliest known expedition of coastal North America by Europeans
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Led the first exploration of Florida. He later went on to become the first governor of Puerto Rico.
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Started by joining an expedition to Cuba, but returned later to explore Mexico in the name of Spain.
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Sir Walter Raleigh along with a small group invest in founding a permanent settlement in the New World
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Their leader, John White, is called back to England to do a few things. When he returns, the colony just isn't there.
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After the Roanoke incident, people were reluctant to try again, but this time, it succeeded.
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We all know the story with the "first thanksgiving". A bunch of people sail over on the Mayflower, things go extremely wrong, life is terrible, and then the natives bail them out.
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This was the first attempt at a taxation system that pertained to merchants.
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The reason most of what happens in period 3 happens.
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One of many treaties of Paris, the clock is set for the revolution.
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Every country has to start somewhere.
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The first tax placed on the colonies after the French and Indian War.
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The unofficial start to the revolution. People had strong opinions about the new tax, and tensions reach a breaking point.
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A riot ensues and nearby soldiers open fire. The incident is heavily publicized by Paul Revere to gain more support.
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Bunch of dudes dress up in really bad native costumes and dump an entire fleet's shipment of tea into the Boston harbor
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Delegates from all over come to discuss their plans for countering the next set of taxes. George Washington is among them.
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Britain reacted exactly how you would expect them to after someone messes with the sanctity of their tea.
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Delegates return once again to discuss full, open rebellion.
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Somebody (no one knows for sure who) fires the first shot of the Revolutionary War.
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The first major conflict of the revolution. The british went to try to secure the armories to keep the colonists from arming themselves. It didn't work.
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It is official. A formal announcement of everything they hated about England in one letter.
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The turning point of the revolution. The patriots finally began winning some battles.
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The official end to the American Revolution. The USA was now a country!
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Washington becomes the first ever US president.
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The united states bought a huge chunk of land from France called the Louisiana Territory
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The first important supreme court case. Established judicial review as a power for the judicial branch.
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Two men were tasked with the project of exploring the new land of the Louisiana Purchase and reporting back interesting finds.
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A huge victory for the Democratic-Republicans, this was the first step in the Federalists' eventual collapse.
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The "Unfortunate Institution" was finally brought to an end by Thomas Jefferson.
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Supreme Court decision that set the precedent that the Court can declare state laws unconstitutional.
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One of many conflicts with the natives over land and settlement issues
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The british were messing with american shipping, and things escalated.
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Another helpful move on Henry Clay's part, he negotiated the formal end to the war of 1812.
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Congress as usual was having trouble getting along long enough to actually run the country. A man named Henry Clay steps in and offers a compromise.
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The vote was so close the election was declared a draw and John Quincy Adams was chosen by the House as instructed by the 12th Amendment.
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This guy's presidency was a mess. Name a Native American related incident, and this guy probably had a hand in it somewhere.
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Just one of many heinous escapades attributed to the Jackson presidency, this act allowed for the forced relocation of native tribes.
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Part of the application of the Indian Removal Act, this was the nasty walk that coupled the removal.
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Not an actual shooting war, but more of an ideological one due to Jackson's disapproval of the national bank
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Somehow he managed to scrape by in a reelection.
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Supreme court case that decided (despite being largely ignored in practice) that the court had the power to enforce native rights, overriding a Georgia law.
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It took several years, but the government decided that marching natives off their ancestral land was probably a bad thing.
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This president has some impressive things to his name, such as gaining Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona into the union.
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After the Mexican-American war, the victorious USA decided to officially welcome Texas into the Union.
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Both the US and Mexico claimed Texas for their own and things got ugly fast.
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Another slice of Mexico, but this one they just gave to the US
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The treaty that both ended the Mexican-American war and how the US gained the Mexican Cession.
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Someone wrote a book, and it got famous
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A small bit of mexico purchased for $10 million (in that day's money) that became part of New Mexico and Arizona
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Supreme Court case that set up the long-lasting (but not permanent) Separate-but-equal policy.
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a series of debates that usually resulted in the two candidates civilly waiting their turn to speak and then insulting each other to smithereens.
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Lincoln won the debates and soon after, the election. The only problem was, the South had a surprise in store...
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The confederate soldiers saw a Union supply ship and thought it was a warship. all that happened was that they accidentally caused the bloodiest war in American History.
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the south had decided that it didn't like the north anymore, so they seceded. Didn't win, but they certainly tried.
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The last battle wasn't very climactic. Lee realized that they were going to lose and cut his losses.
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Lincoln just wanted to see a play, but John Wilkes Booth decided to ruin the president's day.
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the measures taken by DC to ensure that the South behaved.
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The first president to be impeached, the sentiment involved with it has led some historians to believe that it was a partisan fabrication because congress didn't like him. I guess we'll never know for sure.
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The man was a general, and war hero candidates for some reason have a better chance at winning.
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the first of a line of really lousy events...
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The new constitutional amendment was drafted and quickly ratified, adding the provision that rights will not be violated on the basis of race or "previous condition of servitude".
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the last confederate state was eligible to rejoin the Union, officially dissolving the Confederate States of America.
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The first national park, President Grant founded the area at the urging of environmentalists.
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this election was weird, as it involved a compromise and the sating of the south with cabinet access.
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Workers got tired of being pushed around by their employers, so they started unionizing. This was one of such measures taken by the unions.
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people wanted a way to get to the pacific without going all the way around South America, so the US decided to dig a big hole in the smallest stretch of land they could find. Panama.
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214-155 electoral votes, but scrapes by with around 7k votes ahead for the popular vote.
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A guy walks up to him and shoots him, but it takes 2 months for the resulting infection to kill him.
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Another president in the era jokingly called the "Era of forgettable presidents" since they all looked more or less the same. Cleveland is also the only president to serve non-consecutive terms.
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Started over a strike that went badly wrong.
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Another incident involving the area called Wounded Knee.
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Famous for having extreme ups and downs throughout his administration.
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Protection of the president in those days was absolutely terrible. The guy just walked up to McKinley and shot him.
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William and Orville Wright make the first successful airplane and get it off the ground at Kitty Hawk, NC
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One of the first successful cars ever built, it became widely popular and Ford got very wealthy from it.
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Despite the North's victories in the Civil War, tensions were still high among the different populations in the south, where lynchings were common. Therefore, people got together to do something about it.
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Another story that everyone probably knows about by this point. Unsinkable boat sinks anyway and a bunch of rich people escape on the weirdly inadequate amounts of lifeboats available while everyone else has to swim for it.
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The president who got the US through WWI relatively unscathed.
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this said that Congress could collect an income tax
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This organization (as the name suggests) oversees the enforcement of regulations related to trade and trade practices.
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Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated, resulting in a snowball of secret alliances declaring war on each other and then things got messier and messier.
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a group of mercenaries from Mexico, led by a man named Pancho Villa, hop the border and mess with a small town in the state of New Mexico, much to the government's chagrin, who was never able to bust him.
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British Intelligence intercepts a letter to the Mexican government from Germany, which asked Mexico to provoke America into its own separate war so that they would be too busy to help the Allies. The US reacted as one would expect, to say the least.
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Communists overthrew the Russian Government, and people got paranoid that it could happen again elsewhere...
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Too soon? Eh. One of the worst pandemics of such kind gets bad fast.
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Although the US didn't join, it was US president Woodrow Wilson who came up with the idea.
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The banning of the sale or production of alcoholic drinks...officially. Not many people ever listened to it though.
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This president has had some scandals that history won't soon forget
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A scandal in the administration of Harding, this bribery issue took a little while to resolve
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The first "talkie" ever made, this was the first motion picture that had sound instead of some dude playing the piano.
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The president widely regarded as the worst, due to his lousy response to the collapsing US economy.
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The US economy went down the toilet and life wasn't great until FDR came along
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Jacked the import tax up to over 50%
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as if economic collapse wasn't enough, overfarming in the midwest caused a huge dust storm to cover the area, causing even more problems.
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the president that not only got the economy working again, he also led the US thru WW2. He is also the only president to be elected to 4 terms in office
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the series of programs that FDR put into place to rescue the economy.
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a blimp called the Hindenburg explodes without warning
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a radio drama that was organized to sound like it was legitimate news reports, stating the the Earth was getting invaded from mars. To avoid mass panic, as they had done it so well, they announced that it was all a joke soon afterwards. The provided picture is from a Tom Cruise movie adaptation of the story.
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once again, planet earth starts a total war with itself. This time thanks to a certain Adolf Hitler in Germany.
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Japan had the idea to bomb the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was kind of smart at first, tactics-wise, but they regretted doing that immensely later. They got to find out what getting nuked feels like-- twice.
