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Christopher Columbus discovered the continent of North America, doubling the size of the world as it was known, and overturning the notion that the world was flat. If it weren't for Columbus's discovery of the "New World" we would not have found America when he did.
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Christopher Columbus left Spain on his fourth voyage to the New World, landing back on the islands of Martinique and Jamaica in June. This voyage would take him to Central America, but not to North America.
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Slavery started as a means of using people as a trade for items such as Tobacco, Sugar and Cotton, it started when the British captured free African tribes and transported them upon slave ships
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The Cascadia earthquake, located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest along the Juan de Fuca plate. The magnitude 9 (8.7 to 9.2) quake caused a tsunami to hit the coast of Japan.
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February 28-29, 1704 - Deerborn, Massachusetts attacked by the Indians with forty killed and one hundred captured and carried off.
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The Queen Anne's War came to an end with the French signing a treaty to give Nova Scotia to the British.
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The Declaration of Independence, from the pen of Thomas Jefferson and his committee, was approved in the Second Continental Congress of the United States of America, held in Independence Hall (above), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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By October, 1781, the colonists were ready to trap the Redcoats. They circled around the city of Yorktown, Virginia, where the huge British army was located, attacked them and won the Battle of Yorktown. This ended the major Revolutionary War fighting. The Peace Treaty of Paris was signed on Sept. 3, 1783.
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Missouri became the 24th state. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, and Maine entered as a free state, thus keeping the number of slave and non-slave states equal at 12 each.
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Debate on the future of slavery in the territories escalates when Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. On March 7, Senator Daniel Webster endorses the bill as a measure to avert a possible civil war.
