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The English colony at Jamestown Virginia is the first permanent English colony in the Americas.
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A website link for more information on slaveryThe First Africans brought to North America way brought by Dutch traders, and where made to be laborers over tobacco crops.
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The Mayflower plilgrims landed at Plymouth and founded the Plymouth colony
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The Salem Witch Trials began with a few women claiming that they where posesed by the devil and blamed others for being witches. This created panic, with people accusing other people. Trials where held and hung whoever they found to be guilty.
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>:( It doesn't let me add a picture for timespans The French and indian war was fought against the engilsh and French. The French where expanding into the Ohio river valley, which caused conflict with the English.The French where greatly outnumbered and allied with the indians, thus the name French and Indian war.
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A crowed of people where angry about the new taxes and started throwing items and agitating British solidiers. The soldiers took action and killed several people. Reenactment of the Boston Massacre Video
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Beacuse of the Tea act, a group called the sons of Liberty protested by throwing tea into the sea.
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The Declaration of Independence was created at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the Continental Congress. It states that the thirteen colonies are their own states and are not apart of England any more.
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The Treaty of Paris was a negotiation between the United States and Great Britain. It ended the revolutionary was and recognized America as independent.
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Shay's Rebellion is the name of several protestes by groups of farmers. This was caused by the enforcement of the collection of taxes.
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a protest against the whiskey tax.
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This was the first american exploration into the western portion of America, past the mississippi river.
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The War of 1812 lasted tor 2 and a half years. It was a confict between America and Great Britain.
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The Missouri Compromise was a compromise that was caused by the increasing tension between the Pro- and Anti- Slavery. Instead of unbalancing the number of free and slavery states, they decided to make an imaginary line that, if below it will be a slave state.
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The Trail of Tears was the trail that the cherokee indians used wile migrating into an area in current-day Oklahoma.
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This is the day at wich texes adopted the texas declaration of independance. This document declared texes' independance from mexico.
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This was the first United States war, that mostly took place on foreign soil. This confilct was caused by the U.S's dream of manifest destiny.
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When gold was found in california, everyone flocked to the west with the intent to strike it rich.
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The Compromise of 1850 was composed of five different bills. The results of this are: texes gives up part of it's territory, california becomes a free state, poplar soverignty is used to decide if a states has slavery or not, and the slave trade was banned in the capital.
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The Kansas Nebraska Act created the two different territories of Kansas and Nebraska. They where going to use popular sovereignty to decide the use of slaves in this state. This caused bleeding Kansas to occur because it was made into a political war ground.
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The election of 1860 was won by Abraham Lincoln. This sparked the south to try to remove themselves from the Union.
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The Civil War was the south's attempt at removing themselves from the Union. The north's superior technology, including the telegraph and connected railroads, allowed them to win the war.
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The Transcontinental Railroad was a railroad that connected the country from east to west. This took about seven years with two different railroad companies building from the ends, connecting them up in the middle.
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The Compromise of 1877 was used to settle the dispute against the presidential election, take troops out of the south, and most importatntly, it ended the Reconstruction era.
