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Discovery of JamestownOn May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
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During the Civil war many blacks became slaves and began doing work on plantations. They would grow cotton, sugar and rice.
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MayflowerThe Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Pilgrims.
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With this first portiable camera it allowed people to take pictures of events like the Civil War and many other things.
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England has an argument with America because they want some of the American land.
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Boston MassacreThe British Army killed 5 civilian men without the order to.
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Boston Tea PartyAfter officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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Daniel BooneDaniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman. He is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Commonwealth Kentucky.
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Lexington and ConcordThe Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Shot Heard Round the WorldOn April 19th 1775 where once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world. The War for Independence had now begun.
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New YorkThe population of NYC keeps going and going. However on this date the population is 20,000.
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Declaration of IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies were at war with Great Britain.
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American RevolutionThe American Revolution is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence.
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George WashingtonGeorge Washington becomes first president.
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Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on and off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener.
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Milk SicknessAbe Lincoln's mom Nancy Hanks got milk sickness and died.
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Slave LawBy 1843, several hundred slaves a year were successfully escaping to the North making slavery an unstable institution in the border states. So they came up with the slave law.
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First Battle of Bull RunFirst Battle of Bull Run was also known as First Manassas which was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia.
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The cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds.
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SpindletopBlack Gold erupted from this well near Beaumont, Texas to a height greater than 150 feet on January 10th, 1901.
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Between 1870 and 1900 the population of L. A. exploded from 5,728 to 102,479. The Los Angeles River was sucked dry, but more water was needed.
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Triangle Shirtwaist FireAround 275 girls started to collect their belongings as they were leaving work at on Saturday. Within twenty minutes some of girls charred bodies were lined up along the street.
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L.A AqueductIn 1913 the City of Los Angeles completed construction of the first Los Angeles Aqueduct. L.A grew alot from that point.
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Hollywood SignIt was created as an advertisement in 1923. It was 45 foot tall and 350 feet long.
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There was hardly any rain and farmers couldn't farm their crops. It left many famers broke.
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Joe LouisJoe Louis was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949.
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America introduced a new machine the radar. It allowed military forces to see the air space thats near them. They also could see other airplanes and birds.
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Mount RushmoreCarved into the Black Hills of South Dakota are the faces of four former presidents of the United States. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
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Men were off to war and that allowed women to enter the work force. Since women were entering jobs it allowed America to expand the job market.
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In 1942 America attacks Germany after they attacked Pearl Harbor. This war would be known as World War II. This war cost more money than any other war.
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On August 1945 American planes dropped the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima. America created a code name which was little boy. This bomb helped end World War II.
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In 1950 the NBC network was created. It brought in many news and other tv shows. In was the hottest network out there at the time.
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President Dwight Eisenhower created the Federal Aid Highway act in 1954. This new act allowed America to create more highways and expand so that people can travel with their vehicles.
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Rosa ParksRosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
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America was entering a new age known as the The Flying Age. This allowed a new company Boeing to create new and large airplanes to travel people on.
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After racism was no longer a major issue many blacks moved back down to the South and lived in the suburbs. Many called it the New South.
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On Nov 1, 1963 Kennedy was Assassined in this car during the climax of the Cilvil War. He was shot at the Dealy Plaza in Dallas. Kennedy later died that day.
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These new jeeps allowed people to travel from point a to point b. The jeeps also transported weapons and many other things.
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President John. F Kennedy wanted to put people on the moon and he did. The first people on the moon was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. When the arrived on the moon they placed the American flag to show that they were there.
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The Wood Stock was a three day concert. There was about 50,000 people at the concert which made it the biggest concert in NYC.
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Apollo 13Apollo 13 was the thirteenth in a series of missions using Apollo specification flight hardware and was to be the third lunar landing.
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The first email was sent between the two machines side by side but the only connection between them was through the ARPANET.
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The watergate scandal was the biggest scandal in U.S. history. On June 17th 1972 five men got caught breaking into the building and was arrested. People claimed Nixion was apart of it so he resigned.
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In 1973 the stock market crashed. Prices for everyday items went up and limited supply of items.
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The Vietnam War was between American and Vietnam. It finally ended in 1975 only because Nixon created peace treaties.
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Since the Middle East have been in several Wars it limited oil that other countries like the U.S would buy.
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9/11The September 11 attacks were a series of four suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas.
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Paul TibbetsHe drove a b-29 bomber and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the end of WWII. He passed away on November 1, 2007.
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