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This was the date that Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas thinking he was in the Indies.
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This was a line where the land was divided up between portugual and spain.
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Ponce De Leon Explores Florida searching for the fountian of youth and other treasures.
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The Aztecs attacked Cortes' men and started a war that lead to their decline.
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This is the day when Megellans crew made it back to spain, after he had died in the Philipenes.
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This was the battle between Francisco Pizarro's army and the Incans.
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Cartier returns to spain thinking he had found the northwest passage when he had only went into the gulf of St. Lawarence
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Queen Elizabeth begins her reign of being the virgin queen.
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The spanish landed in Florida and founded the fort of St. Augustine
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the english Battled the Spanish Armada and won the battle of gravelines.
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King James became king
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Peace treaty between Spain and England
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Settlers decided to make a small plot of land their home in Virginia and called it Jamestown.
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John Rolfe Makes tobacco grow better and makes it more of a pleasure to use.
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The end of the first Anglo Powhatan war
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Lord baltimore sent settlers to the colony of maryland.
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Charles II regains the title of king
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The colony of Carolina was created.
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North Carolina becomes its own colony
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Georgia was named In honor of English King George II.
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The great awakening lasted 10 years and changed many things with colonial religion.
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Was a famous defense attorney for charges against libel
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The first state to create its own currency. This became a problem later on in history.
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The slaves of south carolina revolt. This was a great leap into the underground railroad
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Joseph the second of Austria was born. He continued to reign a 25 year legacy.
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An act implemented by parlaiment tolimit the production of iron in America.
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England passed the Currency Act to ban the printing of paper money in the colonies.
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Hospital Built in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It was named the Pennsylvania Hospital
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George Washington Emerges Victorious in this battle.
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The French and the indaind sided with eachother and battled over a land dispute of present day pittsburgh.
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Geoirge Washington surrenders the fort after being attacked by French army men and leaves the fort with his men.
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Brotherton, a 3000 acre reservation set aside for Indians in New Jersey. This was the first Indian Reservation.
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George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess. The assembly was made up of 22 members
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The Cherokee indians and the southern Colonies Engaged in war.
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Ben Franklin was the founder of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, When he created it he had programs for on practical education for commerce and public service.
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Britain vetos South Carolina's anti-slave trade measures. This was so the Triangular Trade could continue.
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A fire tore through boston threatening its 1.5 million people.
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The Seven Year Wars ended because of The Treaty of Paris. This stated that France had to give England all of the French territory to the east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans to them.
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The Currency Act prohibited colonies from making their own currency.
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English Parliament passed the Sugar Act to lower the debt of the French and Indian war. This act increases duties on imported sugar and other textiles.
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Protesters began to organize and collectivly ponder their rights.
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The stamp act was the first direct tax on the colonists
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This law made it law to allow quartering of brittish troops in your home.
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The colonists boycoted and protested and acheived their goal since they payed taxes but had no representation in parlaiment.
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Rutgers college Founded In New Jersey.
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Affirms Parliament’s right to make laws binding the American colonies.
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Taxes placed on glass, lead, paint and tea.
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•March 5: Boston Massacre—Violence breaks out between soldiers and a Boston mob; three Americans die, and two are fatally wounded.
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•The Gaspée Affair—Attack on a brittish ship near Providence, Rhode Island
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Colonists dressed as indians board brittish ships and dump the tea into the harbor
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The first continental congress meets to organize a rebellion against the british.
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John Hancock elected President of the Continental Congress.
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George Washington becomes the commander of the continental army.
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The continental congress sends a petition to the king to treat them better and he pushes it away and ignores it.
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The continental congress declare independance from the english
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Congress comes up with a national flag
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George washington is defeated
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Congress is given ultimate authority over our new nations government
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Congress adopted the articles of confederation.
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The united states and Spain form an alliance against england.
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Britian stops american hostilities directed at them
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The Revolution was formally ended.
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Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draft the U.S. Constitution.
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George Washington was the first president elected for the United States ofAamerica.
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The judiciary act of 1789 laid out the federal court system
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Vermont becomes a part of the united states of america
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Jefferson defeats Adams for Presidency .
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Acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana
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Mierwether Lewis and William Clark embarque on a journey to explore the lands bought in the Louisiana Purchase
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Mierwether Lewis and William Clark Return from their Journey to the pacific ocean through the louisiana purchase.
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Mierwether Lewis died a death of a gun wound to the head. It was undetermined if it were a case of sucide but it was likely because he was in depression and binge drinking because he proposed to his long time girlfriend and she rejected. This makes it seem likely the cause was sucide but it could havebeen murder also.
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The Fletcher vs. Peck ruling asserted the right of the Supreme Court to invalidate state deemed unconstitutional.
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Madison was reelected as President.
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The Treaty of Ghent was signed
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The Hartford Convention was held in The town of Hartford conecticut.
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The construction of the Erie Canal began during this time.
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The Treaty with Britain sets the fourty-nineth parallel as the northern border of the united states
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The national bank was brought back and rechartered in April of 1818
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Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.
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The Missouri Compromise preserved the power in Congress between the slave states and the free states.
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James Fenimore Cooper publishes his first successful novel, The Spy.
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Michael Faraday Discovers the theory of capacitence and the fundementals of electromagnetism.
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Emma Willard establishes the Troy Female Seminary
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Stephen Austin leads a group that founds the first colony in Texas.
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The Monrow Doctrine established the policy of the United States against the European intervention in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
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John Quincy Adams is elected as presdient of the United States,
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Thomas Cole establishes the Hudson River School of Landscape and Painting.
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The Spoils System was the method of appointing officials to government office based on one's political concerns rather than how fit one was for office.
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 moves eastern indians west into Mississippi.
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Nat Turner led an inneffective antislavery movement in Virginia.
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Samuel Morse designs an improved electtromagnetic telegraph.
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Santa Anna was elected the President of Mexico.
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The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of the Native American Indians from the southeastern parts of the United States.
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This battle, led by Santa Anna, was a fight for freedom between the United States and Mexico over the Texas territory.
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Daguerre invents the first form of photography called Daguerreotype.
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The New York Times was founded on September 18, 1851, by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond,
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Present day southen arizona was purchased from mexico to accomadate the new railway.
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Henry Clay's deathe causes the fall of the whig party.
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The Nebraska bill was presented to senate with the new modifications made by Douglass.
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The four stroke or otto cycle engine was patented.
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Fredrick Douglass Publishes his Autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom.
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Slave Dred Scott Unsucessfully sued for his freedom. It was stated that Blacks have no rights in the united states which caused massive turmoil.
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This finantial panic lasted 2 years and helped to begin the civil war.
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The election of lincoln caused turmoil in the south eventually leading to secession.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union do to the election of Abraham Lincoln to office.
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The State of Florida seceeded from the union. This caused other states in the south of seceed also and lead to the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated President. He now has control of the issues regaurding the secession of southern states.
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The first battle of the war was fought at fort sumter in South Carolina
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Mississippi seceeds from the union mostly due to the issue of slavery.
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At the Confederate Constitutional Convention in Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis Becomes the first President of the Confederate States of America.
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The first battle of bull run took place. This battle resulted in a Confederate victory.
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These 2 steel armoured ships battled eachother untill both sides had given up. This made wooden ships obsolete.
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The city of New Bern Falls under federal control as part of the Burnside expedition.
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This was the bloodiest single day of the whole war.Over 26000 men were killed.
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This was the Last battle of the civil war resulting in a union victory of the war.
