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  • The settlement of Jamestown

    The settlement of Jamestown was the first permanent English settlements of America .
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    The French and Indian War

    It compromised the North American theater of the world wide seven year war .

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston .

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

    British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.

  • The Declaration of Indepence

    Once the Declaration of Independence had been written and signed a printer was asked to make 200 copies and even today, the “Dunlap Broadsides” are extremely rare and valuable.
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    The Battle of Yorktown

    The American army blocked the escape of Cornwallis by land while French naval fleet blocked British by sea.
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    The Constitution Convention

    It was to discuss abou the possible improvements to the article of confederations.

  • The invention of the cotton gin

    The invention of the cotton gin was made to have a speedy process of removing the seeds from the cotton fabric .

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

    The Alien and Sedition Acts were made as four laws while America was preparing for war with France .

  • The Louisiana purchase

    It's about when the United States gained that territory from France .

  • The War of 1812

    It was an attempt to seek a compromise and prevent a crisis between north and south

  • The Missouri Compromise

    It was to stop all the rivaleries in the sections and later on slavery was permitted in Missouri.
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    Andrew Jackson Election

    The presidential election of 1828 , the 11th president
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    invention of the Telegraph

    The telegraph was to revolutionized long distance communication.
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    War of 1837

    Both rebellions were motivated by frustration with political reforms.
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    Trails of tears

    A series of forced removal of Native Americans nation from there ancestral homelands.
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    Mexican American War

    It was an armed conflict with United States and United Mexican States .

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of preventing the crisis of North and South , also there was a part in there were slavery was abolished.

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    These were made to make sure that slaves were treated equally .
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    civil war

    This is an event that contains of some of the states all over the slavery control. Some of the states had power over slavery that the other states didn't have. Even when slaves were freed they joined the military fighting for their country.
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    The firing fort of Sumter

    This was the first battle of the American Civil War. This war was the tension between the union and confederacy for several months.
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    The Emancipation Proclaimation

    This was issued when the nation reached its third year of a bloody civil war.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    This was something that ended the four year civil war

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    This was something that shocked everyone . That he attended a play and someone came from behind and shot him in his head.

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

    This is when the United States House of Representitives resolved to impeach the president at that time

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

    The trust was made to let the standard oil stockholders to get around state laws that hold them from stockholding from other companies .
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    The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

    The telephone was invented 2 years after the men got out of college knowing they had some type of way to communicate with others . Also the airplane was created by a 2 men and they were very successful in making the first aircraft.
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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    This is an event when people came together for what they believed in .
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    The Spanish–American War

    The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    He became the 26th President of the United States upon the assassination and death of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909.
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    The Discovery of America by Columbus

    Columbus wasn't the only one who discovered the land but he was the one that claimed it before.