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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration tells us why the colonies should break off of Britain. It also states that people have rights that cannot be taken away, lists the complaints against the king, and argues that the colonies have to be free to protect the colonists' rights. At the bottom of the document, the delegates signed their names. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a deal between the United States and France to gain 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. citation
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The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a deal between the United States and France, to sell the US the Louisiana territory to them for 15 million dollars.
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The Lewis and Clark Journey
The journey was led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, to explore and gather information on the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. Citation:
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears, was the forced relocation of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States (including Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among other nations) to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
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The Texas Revoluution
The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of the colonists from the US and the Tajanos (Texas Mexicans) -
Donner Party
The Donner party was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest, the were put off by a series of problems, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada
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The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was when gold was found by a man named James W. Marshall, at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought around 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States.
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Pearl Harbor
This is when the Japanese made a surprise attack on the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. They destroyed our ships and killed many soldiers. It was also this attack that forced the United States to enter World War II. -
Elvis Presley Appears on the Ed Sullivan Show
The audience got to see the full Elvis, (legs, hips, and all), during the second segment, when he performed the up-tempo Little Richard song 'Ready Teddy' and two verses of 'Hound Dog. -
Wood stock Concert
In 1969, the country was deep into the Vietnam War, and so Woodstock was an opportunity for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace. -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said that citizens of the GDR were allowed to cross the country's borders. -
9/11
9/11 was a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
