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The west African empire.
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When Columbus "discovered" America.
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When Christopher Columbus went out to discover america.
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agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands
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Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador, or conqueror, best remembered for conquering the Aztec empire in 1521
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The first colony was established by governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island
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The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia i
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Although the Pilgrims had originally intended to settle near the Hudson River in New York,
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A voyage of 66 days to arrive on land.
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The first Lord Baltimore, yielding him proprietary rights to a region east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the income derived from the land
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The Navigation Act of 1651, aimed primarily at the Dutch, required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels,
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All trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels.
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An armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies.
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An armed rebellion that took place 1676-1677 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in England's Thirteen American Colonies
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a series of religious revivals in the North American British colonies
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It involved all five European great powers of the time plus many of the middle powers and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
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Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses.
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
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When America declared their freedom/ independence.
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a battle during the American Revolution (1777); the British under Burgoyne were defeated
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Maryland finally ratified the Articles on February 2, 1781
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the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution.
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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades
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provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
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the Constitution became the official framework of the government
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a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington,
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A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams.
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a land deal between the United States and France
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The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo on all foreign nations enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain was a conflict fought over the right of neutral countries to participate in foreign trade without the interference of other nations
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The Battle of Horseshoe Bend, was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory
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The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along
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The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict, lasting over a decade, which had several distinct phases and took place in different regions of the Spanish colony of New Spain
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The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
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Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory,
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War
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The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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The Dred Scott decision was the Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle a slave, Dred Scott, to his freedom. In essence
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The first state to secede was South Carolina
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A battle between the north and south about expansion of slavery.
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The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.
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The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War
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a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland, an advance that was regarded as one of the greatest Confederate threats to Washington, D.C.
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The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
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The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point
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Abraham Lincoln was killed