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The stirrings of what became the American Revolution began as residents grew angry about the heavy taxation.
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The Declaration was adopted by the Congress
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On June 11, the Second Continental Congress appointed three committees in response to the Lee Resolution proposing independence for the 13 colonies
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New York and New Jersey were in a dispute over duties charged on goods crossing state lines, and Spain and Britain were encroaching on American territories in the west.
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Construction of the Capitol, the building that houses the U.S. Congress, began in 1793 and was largely completed by 1865
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Under the direction of the postmaster general, David Burr compiled information from postmasters throughout the country about transportation routes and the location of post offices to produce a large set of state and regional maps
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Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States of America and one of the founding fathers of the republic.
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Jefferson’s detailed instructions to Lewis regarding the goals of the expedition. “The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon [sic], Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for purposes of commerce.”
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This 1816 map by John Melish (1771–1822) is the first to show the United States as a continental state
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Osceola was a Seminole war chief who led the resistance to the campaign by U.S. federal troops to forcibly resettle his tribe to territory west of the Mississippi River.
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This map by Gotthelf Zimmermann reflects the importance of German immigration to North America in the mid-19th century.
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President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862.
