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Raleigh sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island.
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First permanent English establishment in the New World saved by tobacco and John Smith.
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They had their first meeting on July 30 1619. First form of self government in the New World by the Europeans.
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New Amsterdam was established by the Dutch.
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Puritans established in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Native Americans vs the English. Fought about the fur trade.
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Pequot were defeated. English massacred 500 Native Americans.
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Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor Berkeley.
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Indigenous pueblo people rose up against the Spanish after the Spanish attempted to convert their religious beliefs and destroyed religious artefacts of the Pueblo people.
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Women were accused of witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts
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Chickasaw/British vs. French/Chocktaws
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Slave Rebellion in 1739
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Chickasaws won the war.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
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Daniel Shays led charge to violently protest taxes, foreclosures and imprisonments.
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Met to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation
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George Washington was unanimously elected as President by the electoral college.
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An uprising in France against the monarchy in 1789 which resulted in the establishment of France as a republic
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To protest the new taxes, the farmers led a revolt against tax collectors in the area.
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As 2nd President of the US, Adams entered presidency as a federalist. He had defeated Jefferson in 1796 election.
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Used coal rather than water, powered machines like the cotton mills and it led to the factory system.
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A land deal between the United States and France.
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Impoeting slaves ended, abolished. At the end of the 1820s, nearly 50 African American antislavery groups had formed in the nation by whites and free blacks.
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A conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom
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His presidency is known as the “Era of Good Feelings.”
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Confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government. South Carolina declared that the Federal Tariffs were unconstitutional.
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Andrew Jackson forcibly removed the Cherokee from Georgia and about 4000 died. This happened due to him signing the Indian Removal Act.
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The first women’s rights convention in U.S. history led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The convention later gained much criticism.
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This treaty ended the Mexican War. The US gained California and the Southwest and Rocky Mountains
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In Fort Sumter, South Carolina the first battle between Union and Confederates over control of coastal fort.
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Promised plots of land to anyone willing to move and settle in these Western lands. Farmers were migrating to the West to find new, fertile, and cheap lands.
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Approved the building of a trans-continental railroad that linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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Due to Union preventing a Southern invasion, Lincoln took it as an opportunity to issue his “Emancipation Proclamation”. It only “freed” slaves in the Confederacy.
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In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Led by Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was the final attempt of the South to invade the North. It was a turning point in the civil war. Lee’s forces retreated and allowed the North to regain control of the war.
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Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theater Washington, DC. He was shot in back of head by pro-Southern actor John Wilkes Booth.
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Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, requiring that Presidents secure the consent of the Senate before removing cabinet members.
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The two tracks finally connected at Promontory Summit in Utah. A golden spike marked mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in hopes of broadening the communication and making it faster.
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The US government sent General George Custer to battle the Sioux. The general's 700 men were slaughtered by 7,000 Sioux Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The US Army forced Sitting Bull to flee to Canada.
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To win the 1876 election, Northern Republicans and Southern Democrats came to an agreement called the Compromise of 1877. The North removed troops from the South and won the election.
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Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese to enter into the US and limited the rights of the Chinese immigrants that already lived in the country.
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A labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. It was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America.
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Troops were sent out to capture the natives as they were being pushed out of their ancestral lands. In Wounded Knee Creek, the government slaughtered over 100 Native men, women and children. friggin murderers smh, rudes.
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Workers began a strike protesting wage cuts and layoffs. The strike got violent with protesters destroying rail lines and equipment.
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Union wanted shorter days and higher wages but owners would not agree to any of the terms set by the workers. Due to there being a need for coal in the winter, owners back down.
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Its founders being W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Store. It was an organization that fought for the advancement of African Americans.
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Income tax law that assigned higher taxes to people with higher incomes.
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Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany after the Zimmerman telegram and the sinking of neutral ships.
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Germany sends telegram asking Mexico for an alliance
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Banned manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages but not the consumption. Known as prohibition and started by the temperance movement. It rose the organized crime rates, especially done by Al Capone.
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Gave women won the right to vote
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Everybody began buying with credit as there were a so many products, but there were too many products and not enough consumers.
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After Pearl Harbor the US declares war on Japan, officially becoming part of WWII. The war was used as a coming out of the Great Depression.
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Japanese pilots bombed the naval forces in Hawaii with a suicide bombing tactic.
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FDR gave an executive order claiming that all Japanese citizens were to be forcefully relocated. The camps incarcerated the citizens up until March 20th 1946.
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Western allioes flew supplies over the people due to the blockade that had been set up to keep the aide out. The Berlin Airlift continued until September 30 1949
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the communist Soviet Union and its allies against the United States and its Western allies. It was a war that would have led the world to nuclear Armageddon due to its heavy tension.
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defeated VP Richard Nixon in one of the closest popular vote races in history. Their debate was televised, leading people to believe that it helped Kennedy win.
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JFK plans to invade Cuba with the CIA and overthrow Castro but the plan fails ruins the image of the US to Cuba.
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Right after JFK was assassinated, LBJ is sworn into presidency.
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JFK was assassinated in Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade.
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United States Marines went to Da Nang, first wave of U.S. combat troops in Vietnam.
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Shootings at Kent State where college students were having a mass protest against the Vietnam War. a total of 4 students were killed.
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The Watergate Scandal happened during the reelection of President Richard Nixon. He was caught spying on the Democratic party by wiring the rooms they stayed in and sending a group to go through the papers of the democrats. This led to Nixon's resignation.
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52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days and were released when Reagan came into presidency.
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A safety concern rose when workers walked off the job illegally but Reagan fired the controllers and replaced with military personnel temporarily.
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NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded after taking off and killed seven astronauts in it including a teacher that served as an astronaut.
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Iraq attacked Kuwait but US stopped Kuwait from being taken over
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A scandal of President Clinton having an with Lewinsky and attempting to cover it up, he was impeached for perjury. Trials started December 19th 1998.
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Al-Qaeda members hijacked airplanes and 2 crashed into the world trade center. This was one of the major terrorist attacks in the USA.
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First African American president in the United States, Barack Obama. It was a surprising elections due to so many minorities and the youth voting.
