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Columbus and his crew discover america, trying to fing a quicker route to india.
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This divided new land that Spain and Portugal wanted.
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He discovered the Pacific Ocean.
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This made the Spanish retreat and Cortes laid siege on the city.
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He explored Florida searching for gold.
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He reached home after he circumnavigated the globe.
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Crushed the Incas and took their treasures.
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He explored the California coast but couldn't find San Francisco.
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Elizabeth I becomes queen of england.
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Raleigh finds Roanoke colony.
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The Spanish cruelly abused the Pueblo people and severed one foot of each survivor.
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James I becomes king of england.
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Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in virginia.
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The first africans arrive in jamestown viriginia becomes royal colony.
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The Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay.
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Maryland colony was found.
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Harvard college was founded and this is the first learning institution in america.
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Roger Williams finds Rhode Island Colony.
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The Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut was first drafted and this later became the basis of the United States constitution.
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The English passed the Navigation Laws which said that all trade had to come through Britain first.
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Charles II is restored to the english throne.
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The Half-Way Covenant for congregational church membership was established.
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The carolina colony was created.
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Bacon's Rebellion started in Virginia. He and the other indentured servants revolted against William Berkley because of what was happening to the indians.
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There was a a massive expansion in slavery in the colonies.
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania. He got this piece of land from the higher authority owing his father the land.
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The Salem witch trials started popping up in Massachusetts.
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The college of William and Mary was founded. This was the second major learning istitution in america.
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Yale college was founded.
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North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina.
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Smallpox disease spread throughout the colonies and caused major deaths.
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Georgia colony was founded.
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Jonathon Edwards begins Great Awakening.
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This happened in New York where he wrote something bad in the newspaper about the governor. He argued that he just wrote the truth and the jury's verdict came back not guilty.
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The first types of colonial coins were made.
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George Whitefield spreads information about the Great Awakening.
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This war started over the slicing off of Jenkin's ear and thus the war was named after it.
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Princeton College was founded.
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He emerges as leader of the British government.
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New York exported eighty thousand barrels of flour that year.
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Britian vetoes South Carolina's anti-slave trade measures.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was passed and it said that no english were to settle past the Appalchian mountains.
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The French and Indian War ends between the French Indians and the Brtiish by the treaty of Paris.
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The Sugar Act of 1764 was passed and it taxed sugar.
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The Quartering Act of 1765 said that you had to shelter and feed soliders during war time.
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This was a meeting of representatives of all of the colonies to dicuss the stamp act and their goal was to get it repealed.
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This was the first tax on stamp and the did this to create more money for the government.
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The Stamp Act was repealed because it angered the colonists and the british were scared of a revolt.
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Rutgers college was founded.
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The Declaratory Act was passed to enfore the british rule in america and allow britain to make all the laws.
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The Townshend Acts are passed which taxed glass, paint, and tea to pay for the war.
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The fighting between the British and Americans got even worse after this. The British shot and killed 7 Americans at Boston.
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The Committees of Correspondence was formed and this was a type of government that spread news throughout the colonies.
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The people of Boston dump the tea from the british ship into the ocean rebelling against the tea tax.
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The First Continental Congress was formed to review the acts and laws being passed in america.
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The Quebec Act was passed which allowed the bounaries of the province of Quebec to be extened to the Ohio river.
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This act temporary closed the ports of boston so that damages could be paid to the english crown.
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These were two seperate battles which started off the Revolutionary war.
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The colonists seize Bunker Hill to attack the british army and hopefully drive them back.
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
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The Articles of Confederation were put into effect.
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The Land Ordinance was put into effect and it split the states into equal sections.
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The farmers rebelled because the government was putting a tax on their property but they were not making enough to pay for that and all their other needs.
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The Northwest Ordinance said that you could not colonize farer than the
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Ratifcation by 9 of the 13 states set up a new government under the Constitution.
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George Washington became the first president of the United States.
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This act was put into affect and it layed out the basis of the federal court system.
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The first ever census in the United States took place this year.
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Washington was elected as president for the second time.
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Washington said that our country should not get involved in other countries business
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The government put an excise tax on whiskey and the farmers didn't like this so they rebelled.
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Washington left his presidency with this and it stated what america should do to become successful in the future.
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Three agents were sent to france to get money from minister talleyrand but that didn't happen because of complications.
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The alien act did not allow a person to become a US citizen until they lived in the country for 14 years. The sedition act say that you could not speak bably about the government or public officals.
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These resolutions stated that the individual states had the right to "nullify" anything they saw as unconstitutional.
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At this convention the US made peace with France.
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The US and the tripoli pirates went to war over rights of the sea.
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Lewis and Clark bought Louisiana and all land west of it from Napoleon Bonaparte for $15 million.
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This lifts the embargo except against France and Britain.
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The two indian brothers wanted to stop the white people from settling on their lands.
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The American Colonization Society was founded. This society wanted to move the slaves back to Africa.
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Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.
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The Missouri Compromise was put into affect and it said the anything above the 36 30 was a free state and anything below it was a slave state.
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Cooper publishes his first copy if his book The Spy. This was his first successful novel.
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Vesey started a slave rebellion in Charleston. He started it because he and all the other slaves were upset over the poor working and living conditions.
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The erie canal was completed in this year. It took 8 years to build. This a very important canal because in controled trading throught the North East.
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The New Harmony community was founed.
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The American Temperance Society was founded. They tried to preach to people to avoid the use of alcohol.
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Noah Webster publishes the first ever dictionary.
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The first railroads were developed and spread out across the United States.
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Joseph Smith founds the Mormom religion.
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Garrison started publishing his papers of The Liberator.
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Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virigina.
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The British abolish slavery in the West Indies. The American Anti- Slavery Society was also founded this year. This society was founded to put an end to slavery.
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The Gag Resolution was passed by congress. It stated that the government should not interfere with the state governments.
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John Deere invented the steel plow. This invention was used to help plow fields quicker and get a crop out on the market faster.
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A mob kills abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois.
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Weld publishes his first copy of American Slavery As It Is.
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The Liberty Party was established this year. It was a new presidental party wanting to gain support to stay a party for a long time.
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President Van Buren reduced the work day to a ten hour shift for federal employees.
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The United States annexs Texas from it.
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In the Battle of Buena Vista Scott captures Mexico City.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the fighting betweens the Mexicans and the Americans in the Mexican War.
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This was when most people in the counrty moved to California in hopes of finding gold to make them wealthy.
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This compromise offically made California a state.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the first copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Slavery was decided by popular sovernigty.
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These were two senate members but they didn't agree on some terms. Sumner beats Brooks with his cane in the middle of the senate house.
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This was a court case that Dred Scott tried to sue for his freedom. He said that since he lived in a free state he should be free. The court ruled this out because a slave had to rights to testify in court.
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Lincoln takes his position as President on March 4th.
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This was the first battle that started off the Civil War.
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This was the bloodiest battle of the war with 26,000 deaths in one day.
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This was a battle that the North won and that they took control of the Mississippi River.
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William Sherman takes his men on a march through Georgia and burns down everything in their path.
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Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilks Booth in Ford's theathre.
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The Ku Klux Klan was founded by William Bedford Forest. This was a racist group trying to stop blacks from voting.
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This act created 5 military districts in the south.
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This made it illegal for a president to remove a member of cabinet without consent from the senate first.
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Johnson was impeached because he removed a member of his cabinet without the consent from the Senate first.
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This amendment extended the right to vote to everyone who was over the age of 21.
