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Christopher Columbus discovers america while sailing the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
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The settlement of Jamestown was named after King James the 1st.
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The French and Indian war was fought because the french wanted to expand their territory to the west.
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This was a political protest that the colonists had in which they boarded trade ships and dumped chests of tea into the ocean. This escalated the into the american revolution.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the revolutionary war, it was important because it showed scared colonists that they can win the war.
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The Declaration of Independence was the "last stone on the wall", so to speak, that severed our connections with Great Britain.
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The Battle of Yorktown was the final battle of the revolutionary war where Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
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This was when the constitution was signed.
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This is a machine that separates cotton fibers.
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This was an act made of 4 laws that made it harder for new immigrants to vote.
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Many people credit Thomas Edison with the invention of the electric light but it was, in fact, Humphry Davy. Edison only improved the light to a point where it could be used in any household.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a deal between the U.S.A and France that allowed the U.S to buy the Louisiana territory
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The War of 1812 was fought because the British kept stealing our trade ships.
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This was when a compromise in which the U.S government permitted Missouri to be a slave state in order to end political rivalries.
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Andrew Jackson’s Election was different from other elections because there really wasn't any other candidates, which allowed Andrew Jackson to easily win.
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The invention of the telegraph is one of the most important inventions in history, it was the first time ever that people could send long distance messages without snail mail. (I couldn't find the exact date of the invention but I know it was developed in the 1830's)
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This was a panic that was a financial crisis caused by inflation.
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This was a journey that the Cherokee people took from east of the Mississippi to Oklahoma when there land was stolen from them.
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This war began when the president of the U.S.A. decided that he wanted to expand the U.S. territory to the Pacific Ocean.
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The Compromise of 1850 happend when California requested to be a free state which upseted the balance between free states and slave states. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to fix this upset.
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The Firing on Fort Sumter was the first battle of the civil war.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was made by Abraham Lincoln and it stated that all slaves in rebelling states where now free.
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This was one of the last battles in the civil war, after this battle general Lee surrender to general Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater.
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These where known as the Reconstruction Amendments and they where put in place to aid in the reconstruction of the south.
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President Johnson was impeached for trying to replace the secretary of defense.
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The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell and the first words to come through it where "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".
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This strike was against the Carnegie Steel Company and about 1/5 of the company joined the strike.
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This was a railroad strike that led to a great disrupment of the railroad traffic.
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The Spanish-american war was fought because Cuba wanted independence from Spain and the U.S.A. decided to intervene.
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Theodore Roosevelt became the president after William McKinley was assassinated.
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The Wright brothers invented the plain and tested at Kitty Hawk.