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Stamp Act passed... 1st direct British tax on colonists
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Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.
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British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America.
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Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000.
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Slavery outlawed in England.
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New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine.
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American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
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Big tea party in Boston harbor - indians welcome Boston Tea Party protest against taxes imposed by British parliament.
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Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean.
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Revolutionary War ends.
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1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston.
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1st US tariff act.
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1st loan to US government (from NYC banks).
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1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington.
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Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
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US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act.
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1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves.
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British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire 700 die.
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New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery.
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Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of cheating.
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Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France. Embargo means an offical ban or trad with another country.
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Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston.
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1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila).
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War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
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US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere.
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US passed its 1st immigration law.
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1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa.
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The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day.
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Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there.
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Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million.
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1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft Snelling.
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House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president.
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Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing.
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1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing.
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The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
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Forced indians to leave their homelands.
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1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila.
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William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal.
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Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
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1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia.
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Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect.
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The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
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Texas abolishes slavery.
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Canada gives black citizens the right to vote.
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They forced the Cherokee Nation to travel over thousands of miles called the Trail of Tears and it led to over 4,000 Native American deaths.
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Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada.
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The Mexican war Extends america to the west.
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Baseball becomes americas pastime.
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Gold is discovered in California
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Harriet Tubman was born a slave, she was a abolitionists, conductor on the Underground Railroad and freed three hundred slaves.
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Oil industry is born.
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The pony Express unites America
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The confederd states cesede and civil war begins.
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A presidential proclamation that was issued by president Abraham Lincoln.
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The final military action of the Vicksburg campain in the Civil War..
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Labor Unions rise to prominence.
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The telephone is Invented
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Spanish-American war established U.S World Power.
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The wright brothers pioneer flight.
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The automobile changes the face of america.
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Henry Ford developed the modern assembly line.
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Panama canal united two oceans.
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America fights for freedom in ww1
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Albert Einstein was the person who invented general theory of relativity.
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Women gain the right to vote.
