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The French kicked very English speaking trader out of the upper Ohio.
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Benjamin Franklin’s chopped up snake “Join or Die” is the the first American political cartoon.
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George Washington inherits Mount Vernon from his half brother Lawrence
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Britain passes sugar act
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Britain repeals the stamp act
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British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston,Massachusetts killing five
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The British parliament closes Boston’s port with the first of its Coercive Act
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George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American Flag
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Benjamin Franklin irritated at needing two pairs of spectacles commissions from a lens-grinder the first bifocals
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George Washington unanimously elected first president of the United States is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York
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George Washington is unanimously elected for a second term as president of the USA
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In the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price doubling the size of the USA
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Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific
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The gold rush to California gathers pace during 1849, causing the prospectors to become known as 'forty-niners'
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Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War
