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The first colony is established here in Jamestown. It has many initial problems at first. Very little citizen actually survive.
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African slaves were brought by ship to work in the Americas. Most of the slaves are sent into South America.
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Pilgrims land in Plymouth in search of religious freedom.
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Prosecutions of people involved with witchcraft.
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French and Indians join forces to drive out British.
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4-5 citizens are shot and killed after an angry mob riot.
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Sons of liberty dress as Indians to sabotage a large tea shipment.
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The first time America officially declares itself as their own country.
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The peace treaty between America and Britain is signed in Paris
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Shay tries to start an African rebellion by invading an arsenal but fails.
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The Constitution becomes an official document of the United States
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Tax protest during presidency of George Washington.
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Lewis and Clark explore west of the colonies and encounter many Indian tribes. They map out the landscape
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US and Britain fight again
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
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Many Indians are moved to designated camps Many die from disease, starvation, and hypothermia.
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In the United States, the conflict lasting from 1846-1848 is termed the Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico; it was an armed conflict between Mexico and America.
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An excess of gold riches were discovered in California and people flooded California in an attempt to strike it rich. Some were successful, some were failures.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery or not.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the election and southerners are completely displeased. In fact, they are so upset that they "secede" from the Union entirely.
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The Union or northern states go head to head with the Confederacy or seceded southern states. There were many causes to the Civil War but it was primarily based off of the issue of slavery within the conflicting sides.
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Lincoln's secret weapon, the Transcontinental Railroad is finally completed. It tremendously impacts the transportation of people and supplies across the nation.
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With the compromise, the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south. Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction.
