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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Events In Order
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Jan 1, 1492
Colombus Dicovered America
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Jan 1, 1501
Amerigo Vespucci Explored America
He was one the first to truly explore this new land, and claim that it was not, in fact, Asia. -
Jamestown
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The Beginnning of the Enlightenment
The reason the Enlightenment is so important to U.S. history is because it was the time when we where just learning and understanding science. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
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The Declaration of Independence
This document gave us freedom from the tryanny of Old England. -
The Battle of Saratoga
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The U.S. Constitution
This gave us, as our own nation, rights that can be taken away from us without due process. As well as the right to vote, the right to own property, etc. -
U.S. Banks
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Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney Invents New Musket Design
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The Louisiana Purchase
The Lousiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. and gave way to Westward expantion. -
American Inventor Samuel Colt Invents the Colt Revolver
During the Civil War, Samuel Colt became a major supplier of handguns for the Union army. -
Dread Scott Vs. Sanford
The U.S. Supreme Court declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States. -
South Carolina is the First to Suceed from the Union
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Civil War Offically Begins
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The Emancapation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Civil War Ends
Since the War ended, it force the South to reconcile with the North, and rebuild the even newer nation to ensure a war would never break out again. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
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Ku Klux Klan Founded
Started by Andrew Glass, the KKK was a Confederate terrorist organization who believed in white supremacy.
