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Christopher Columbus discovers America
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Divided Portugal from the new world
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Explore the northeastern coast of North America.
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Vasco da Gama rounded the tip of Africa and reached India
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Vasco discovered pacific ocean and crossed Panama
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Juan explored Flordia fo gold and fountain of youth
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Cortes set sail from Cuba to Mexico with 16 horses, guns, several hundred men, and 11 ships.
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Aztecs attacked the Spainish, they made a bloddy retreat.
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Probed the eastern seaboard
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Francisco crushed the Incas of Peru and added huge booty to Spainish coffers.
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Journeyed hundreds of miles up the St. Lawrence River
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Hernando discovered and crossed the Mississippi River
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Francisco wandered through Arizona and New Mexico in search of golden cities that turned out to be adobe pueblos
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Explored the California coast, but found nothing.
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Spanish erected a fort.
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130 ships went into the English Channel
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83 wagons and hundreds of men traveled through the Sonora Desert into the Rio Grande
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Cruelly abused Peublo people, any survivor had their foot cut off
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Juan de Onate founded the capital of Santa Fe
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Louis XIV became King of France
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Suppressed Indians religious rights
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Period of time when 20 women and 2 dogs were killed after being accused of being witches.
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College of William and Mary was founded
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Also known as the War of the Spanish succession
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New York City slave revolt
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The French founded New Orleans
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Smallpox inoculation was introduced.
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First edition of Poor Richards Almanac was published
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Jonathan begins the Great Awakening
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Whitefield spreads the Great Awakening.
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War of Jenkins Ear
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King Georges War also known as War of Austrian Succession started.
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Also known as the seven years was started
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Washington battles French on frontier Albany Congress.
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Braddock was defeated.
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Pitt emerges as leader of Bristish government
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Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures.
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Peace of Paris Pontiac's uprising Proclamtion of 1763
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Believed wealth determined how powerful a nation was.
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Paxton Boys marched on Philidelphia Brown College
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Philadelphia Quakers founded world's first anitslavery society.
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King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion.
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Thomas Paine created Common Sense that talked about how people needed to revolt
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Decleration of Independence was created.
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Articles of Confederation were adopted by second Continental Congress
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Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Germantown
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Massachusetts adopts first constitution drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote.
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Articles of Confederation put into effect
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treaty of Paris was created
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Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution.
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The Bill of Rights were adopted.
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Federalists and Democratic-Republican parties formed.
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Louis XVI was beheaded, radical phrase of French Revolution.
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Whiskey Rebellion
Battle of Fallen Timbers
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Adams becomes president, and XYZ affair
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Convention of 1800: peace with France
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Undeclared War with France
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Judiciary Act of 1801
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Jefferson relected as President.
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The impeachment of Justice Chase
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Jefferson reelected president Impeachment of Justice Chase
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Pike's explorations
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Arron Burr treason trial.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition comes to a end.
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Embargo Act
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Fletcher vs. Peck asserts right of the Supreme Court to invalidate state laws deemed unconstitutional.
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Napoloen announces (falsely) repeal of blockade decrees.
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Madison reestablishes nonimportation against Briatin
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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The US declares war on Britain
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United States declares war on Britain.
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American invasions of Canada fail.
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The Hartford Convention is held.
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Protectionist Tariff of 1816
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The Missouri Compromise was adopted.
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Missouri and Maine admitted to Union.
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Secretary Adams propses Monroe Doctrine.
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Russ-American Treaty of 1824
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The Erie Canal was completed.
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The American Temperance Society was founded
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Noah Webster publishes the dictionary
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The American Peace Society was formed
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Joseph Smith founds mormon church
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Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia
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Finney conducts revivals in eastern cities
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Garrison begins publishing The Liberator
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British abolishes slavery in the West Indies
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American Anti-Slave Society was founded
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House of Representatives passes "Gag Resolution"
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Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke Seminary
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Dorotea Dix petitions Massachusetts legislature on behalf of the insane.
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Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
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The Mormons migrate to Utah
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Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention held.
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Free Soil party organized
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The Oneida Community was established.
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Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter
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Maine passes first law pronibiting liquor.
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Melville publishes Moby Dick
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Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber.
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William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery.
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Civil War in "bleeding Kansas"
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Buchanan defeats Fremont and Fillmore for Presidency.
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Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
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Dred Scott decision
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Panis of 1857
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Hinton R Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South
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Brown raids Harpers Ferry
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Seven seceding states form the Confederate States of America.
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Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of the Confederacy
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Duel between Merrimac and Monitor
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George Armstrong Custer, becomes brigadier general
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The Emancipation Proclamation; declares all slaves free
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Lincoln delivers The Gettysburg Address
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Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson was accidentally wounded
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In God We Trust put on American coins
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Abraham Lincoln takes oath on March 4 for second term of Presidency
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13th amendment abolishes slavery
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Last shot of Civil War fired by CSS Shenandoah in Bering Sea
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox on Palm Sunday
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Lincoln was assisnated by John Wilkes Booth
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Lincoln shot on April 14, dies next day
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Tennessee becomes 1st state, readmitted to Union after Civil War
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Congress Passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson's veto
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The Ku Klux Clan was founded
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The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia
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The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
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The Freedmen's Bureau came to an end.
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The period of reconstruction comes to an end
