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Christopher Columbus-Spanish explorer
Finds the Bahamas and the Carribean -
Puritans-religious group searching for freedom from Englsih protestant church
Jamestown and Plymouth- first settled cities in America -
French and Indian groups fight against the English in a battle called the Seven Years War
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Debt from the French and Indian War
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Stamp Act-required colonists to put stamps on certain acts
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Revolution breaks out when the militias of lexington and concord start firing in the fields of there cities
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Lord Cornwallis surrenders in Yorktown to the combined forces of the Continental Army and the French troops.
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Provided American citizens with individual rights so if the government tried to go after them the Bill of Rights would stop them
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Made transportation of goods easier so prices went down due the lowering of demand of goods
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first locomotive that was built in the United States which brought goods threw the winter when canals couldn't
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made communication easier with in seconds
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Was invented by William Kelly but was patented in 1855 by Henry Bessemer
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American Civil War starts with the firing on Fort Sumter
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Homestead Act says that anyone that didnt take up arms against the Union including freed slaves that is 21 years or older, or the head of the family can puirchase amd sign a federal land grant.
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a proclamation was issued telling the slaves in the sout are now free
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Civil war ends with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and his army.
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Banned entry of Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government.
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The Dawes Act aimed to americanize Native Americans and it aimed to push the Indians into small reservations
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It provents business from doing certain activities and the federal government regulates it.
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Agreement between America and Japan that Japanese would be excluded from becoming citizens in the States.
