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Columbus left the port in Palos with his 3 ships, the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria, on august 3rd, 1492
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The Virginia Company of England sailed to the new world to establish a colony, which was the first permanent British settlement
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The war comprised North American theater of the worldwide seven years war. It pitted the Colonies of Britain Against those of France.
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The tea party was a political and mercantile protest by the sons of liberty.
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These battles were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war
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The declaration was when the colonies severed their political ties with Great Britain
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The siege of Yorktown was the last major battle of the revolution, and was lead by George Washington.
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The convention was caused from the weakness of the post war government
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The machine separates cotton fibers from the seeds, which enabled much greater productivity
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A series of laws were passed by the federalist congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams.
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The purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the united states, Costing a total of 68 million Francs
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The war was a conflict between the united states and the united kingdom, starting in 1812 and ending in 1815
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To maintain the power balance between slave and free states, Maine was made a free state and Missouri a slave one
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the quadrennial election, a rematch of the 1824 election between John Adams and Andrew Jackson
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Was a financial crisis that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid 1840s. profits, prices and wages went down while unemployment went up.
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A series of forced relocations of native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern united states.
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Followed the annexation of the independent republic of Texas
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The south was strengthened by the fugitive slave law, the north gained California, Texas lost territory but was compensated 10 million dollars, slave trade was prohibited in Washington dc but not slavery.
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The start of the civil war, began with the bombardment and then surrender of fort Sumter.
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A presidential declaration by Abraham Lincoln, freeing 3.5 million southern slaves
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Founded in 1870 by (((John D. Rockefeller))), it was the largest oil refinery in the world
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The official abolition of slavery.
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One of the last battles of the Civil War, and the surrender of Robert E. Lee
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The 16th president was assassinated by well known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Fords Theater.
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Made all persons naturalized or born in the united states legal citizens.
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The house of representatives resolved to impeach him.
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Prohibits the federal or state government from denying a citizen the right to vote.
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Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone.
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Thomas Edison didn't invent it, there were nearly twenty inventors. But Edison invented the first commercially practical bulb
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Industrial lockout and strike, which lead to the defeat of unionizing steel workers.
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The conflict began after the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, Cuba.
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Began his presidency after the assassination of President McKinley
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Wilbur and Orville Wright, more commonly known as the Wright brothers, launched the first successful plane in 1903.