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They came, in colonies settled around Jamestown and the New France town of Quebec, with failed attempts by both in New England and Acadia. There would be treaties with the Indian nations and battles just beginning between them, the British, Spanish, and French.
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The arrival of the Puritan colony at Plymouth, the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch, a second colony for New England in the Massachusetts Bay, and the start of major conflicts between the colonists and native Americans.
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Battles for religious freedom, a New England Confederation, Kings and Queens in conflict at home and in the colonies, and the founding of the first college.
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The French and Indian War begins and the colonists are getting tired of the first acts of rules and taxation without enough representation.
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New France was no more in the north and the British were about to enact rules and taxes that would bring the colonists to the thought of action one decade before those thoughts would lead to the American Revolution.
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The people were getting tired of the overarching rules, regulations, and taxes of the British Crown, perhaps no more so than in Boston where a massacre would occur. So a Tea Party would be held, declarations and Congresses made, then a war with shots ringing out from Princeton to Saratoga to Yorktown. But it would take much longer than this one decade to win that war and to form a true government.
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The war would continue for four years into the decade, then the problems of demacracy would begin. It didn't take a day or year to hammer out the details of how thirteen disparate colonies would join as one nation, in a form of
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The war with Britain was over, for now, and it was time for the United States to build its insitutions, of democracy, of the frontier, of its military. And it was time to prove to the world that this form of government could succeed, and prove its line of succession was possible.
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Back to war with the British with the White House burned, a Stars and Stripes anthem written, and the eventual victory and progress of the United States as it made its way in a nation expanding across the continent.
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Impossible to conquer, yet with the intrepid spirit of the mountain men, miners, and pioneers, they would begin an earnest try as the nation moved, in its first real phase, from east to west.
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Impossible to conquer, yet with the intrepid spirit of the mountain men, miners, and pioneers, they would begin an earnest try as the nation moved, in its first real phase, from east to west.
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An election would lead to secession and that would lead to Civil War. For four long hard years, over 700,000 citizens of the United States of America would perish in an attempt to solve the state's rights issues surrounding slavery. They would fight across the nation at battlefields such as Gettysburg and Vicksburg with the
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It had begun the decade before, but took full flight now. From Thomas Edison to Alexander Graham Bell, the nation was beginning to see light and sound transmitted across the nation. Bridges were built. Railroads lines were extended. The era of cowboys, outlaws, and Indians began to move in
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Immigrants streamed into the halls of Ellis Island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, they crossed the nation, growing the cities of the east coast, taking part in land rushes, and adding to the experiment that was the United States of America.
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Conflict comes to the entire world as the United States is drawn into the first World War against a foe that would not go away for thirty years, Germany. One million American soldiers would fight in that war.
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The decade begins in depression, which dug so deep into the soul and conscience of the nation that only a World War could really make a dent in its depth. Franklin Roosevelt dominated the decade and more with a presidency that saw us through that war and brought us many of the Great Society programs we have today.
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The decade begin in depression, which dug so deep into the soul and conscience of the nation that only a World War could really make a dent in its depth. Franklin Roosevelt dominated the decade and more with a presidency that saw us through that war and brought us many of the Great Society programs we have today.
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Prosperity comes again and the Cold War ends. Plus there's Olympic triumphs and controversy, the personal computer age born, and a Supreme Court justice with a difference.
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It began a decade before, although in many ways the intensity of the dynamic was missed, but when the hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the Shanksville field on September 11, 2001, there was no denying that a new order had emerged. It was a war against our way of life, a war of terror, and our response would dominate the decade and years come.
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Healthcare reform, a slow economic increase, and an enemy that refuses to go away dominate the first years of the decade as America struggles to find its footing from the economic collapse of 2008 and the international troubles of terrorism and the mideast.
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