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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine challenging the British government.
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This document was a declaration of Americas indepndence from Great Britain.
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Each star and stripe on this flag represented one of the 13 original colonies, George Washington was the only president to serve under the original flag
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The United States of Americas first draft of a constitution.
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This was the ending date for the Revoultionary war in which American colonists fought for Indepndence.
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This document reformed the U.S. government making it so that the federal government had more control over the States government.
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George Washington was unanimously elected the first president of the United States.
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The U.S. capital was moved from Pennsylvania to the borders of Maryland and Virginia, not actually in any state.
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Area of land puchased form France for $15 million that nearly doubled the United States size.
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Exploration group sent to map and search the land gained through the Louisiana puchase.
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War in which Great Britain tried to regain control over the United States, but were defeated
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Poem that was written by Francis Scott Key while aboard a British during an attack on a U.S. fort, later became the United States national anthem.
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Effort to preserve the balance of free states and slave states in the United States.
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Stated that effort by Euopean nations to further colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be considered an act of agression
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Created a transportation system for good and people that was slow but efficient.
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Authorized the president to grant unsettled land in the west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian land within state borders
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Event in which Cherokee iIndians were forced to move from their land and travel by foot thousand of miles.
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War between the United States and Mexico for control over California in which the United States won.
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Time period when thousands of people traveled west to California in search of gold.
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Created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and repealed the Missouri compromise by allowing the territories to decide if they wante to be free or slave states.
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After the seceding of many states the states that seceded formed the Confederate States of America.
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War fought between the northern and soutern states over slavery in which the north won.
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A document written by Abraham Licoln that gave freedom to all slaves in the United States
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Gave applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead"
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A speech by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, later became known as one of the greatest speeches in U.S. history
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated April 14 1865 by John Wilkes Booth as a part of a conspiracy to revive the Confederacy
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The act garunteed that everyone regardless of race color or previous state of servitude was entitled to the same treatment
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The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell when he spilled acid on himself when he called for his assistant not realizing his voice was being carried over the device
