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Viking settle in New Found land but don't stay permanently because it appears them and the Natives didn't get along.
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Locomotion no. 1 became the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line.
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Columbus was an Italian explorer on the search for a better route to India by making it around the ocean. Instead he landed in the Bahamas although he still thought he landed in India. -
Balboa on the search for gold found the pacific ocean. He claimed the ocean.
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He conquered the Aztecs simply because he wanted their gold. The way he defeated them was because he attacked them with diseases like chickenpox and measles. -
Pizarro's men massacred the people and took the leader to try and convert him towards Christianity. -
Settlement founded by a Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez Aviles. Named the settlement in Florida after first ship. -
The first English settlement in the New World. They were poorly supplied and hostile against natives, until they finally went missing. -
King James 1 established first permanent colony in Virginia
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Pilgrims land in America in search of religious freedom.
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7 year war where the Indians and french fought for the land. -
It made it so that there was an enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other stuff. This affected the colonies greatly because it was used in many exports. -
It was an act made by the British government making the colonists pay taxes. The taxes were placed on paper, documents, and playing cards. -
Riot between the British and the colonist leading to the death of 9 people. -
342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor. It was a way of protest against the taxation without representation. -
4 laws passed by the British parliament to punish the Massachusetts bay because of causing the Boston Tea party. This closed the Boston harbor. -
Battle where the British retreated to Boston. It's where the British marched to stop the rebellion by taking away the weapons from the colonists. -
Bloodiest battle of the revolution. This proved the colonist could go against the British army.
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On this day all 13 colonies declared independence. -
America defeated the superior British army. This is where America finally got foreign support. -
Attack from Americans was not the only cause for surrender but because of disease, lack of supplies, and weather. -
Treaty in which the British recognized the U.S.A's independence. It also allowed for western expansion to begin. -
Where Spain ceded Florida to the united states renouncing all the claim.
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James Monroe signed it. It made Missouri a slave state as well as unallowed an slave states to be placed after 36 degree 30 inches north.
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President Monroe warned European power that they were not to interfere in the affairs of the western hemisphere.
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After it started being built in July 4, 1817 it took almost 8 years to complete the build of 4 feet deep, 40 feet wide, and 363 miles long
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Andrew Jackson won through electoral votes. He also won best over triple the amount of people that voted the first time voted the second time.