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Columbus was trying to find another route to Asia so he sailed around the world and found America.
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Goods from the old and new world were being exchanged with each together.
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Jamestown was the first successful British Colony in America.
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War between the British against the French and the Iroquois Indians.
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5 people killed by British soldiers in Boston
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Battle for Bunker Hill which the British won after 3 charges up the hill. They had won because the colonist had run out of ammo and retreated. Link text
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John Fitch made the first successful trial of a 45-foot steamboat on the Delaware River.
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The Cotton Gin was a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
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The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for 15 million USD.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson which relocated the Natives to Oklahoma.
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The Horse car was an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses that ran on iron tracks laid in city streets and used for public transport.
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The Minnie Ball (bullet) was the bullet used by the Union and Confederate soldiers during the civil war. It was created by a French man by the name of Claude-Etienne Minié.
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Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in the U.S. This also allowed African men to enlist into the Union Army. Link text
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Lincoln was shot in the head by a Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth. Link text
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Made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history.
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Created by Alexander Graham Bell.
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Benz's three-wheeled vehicle.
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Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were both shot by Gavrilo Princip. This was the event that started WW1. Link text
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Germany surrender to the Allies ending World War Two.
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Truman ordered the bombing of Nagasaki via atomic bomb.
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The Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba which could fire upon the U.S
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Jan. 27, 1973: A cease fire was agreed between North Vietnam and the US. March 29, 1973 the last of the US soldiers went home.Link text
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The Cold War ended along with the USSR and the rise of communism.
