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On Columbus’ first voyage he sailed to Hispaniola when he sailed the ocean he found an island and he thought it was india so he called the people there indians
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First permanent English colony in North America founded by Jamestown
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WHY – BECAUSE THERE WERE A LOT OF SLAVES BACK THEN & THEY WERE TREATED BADLY. They were sometimes killed when they tried to run away.
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Mayflower Pilgrims arrive at Cape Cod and established colony at Plymouth
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1773, Britain passed the Tea Act. By this Act, about 17 million pounds of surplus tea (assets of the East India Company, India) was proposed to be sold in America, by under selling it. Since the tea would be sold at an extremely cheap rate by bypassing the traders, the wholesalers in America were going to be seriously affected.
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In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence on this portable lap desk of his own design. the Declarrtion of independence was made and that symbolized our rights
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06 was a monumental event that shaped the boundaries, character and future of the United States. The courageous explorers traveled up the Missouri River, across the Great Plains, over the Rocky Mountains, down the Columbia River to the shores of the Pacific and back again.
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Missouri became a state
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The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy") to fight for independence.
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Indians overwhelm General George A. Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
On 17th May Sioux warriors killed and scalped five settlers in the Black Hills. Over the next couple of days seven more cases of men being murdered by the Sioux -
At almost precisely 5:12 a.m., local time, a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time.
