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Christopher Columbus was searching for Asia but was found in the Bahamas
Because he found America -
The first permanent colony
It was America's Birthplace -
Bacon rebells against governer Berkeley over relations with the Indians
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Time Period in which the idea that anyone can start over with God Prevalent
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The colonists had to have a stamp on anything they had, Newspapers and other things you bought.
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George Washington becomes the first president of the United States
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Was a fight between British soldiers and Boston citizens
Event leading into the Revolutionary War -
Colonists throw tea chests off british ships and into the Harbor
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Battles of Lexington and Concord show the start of a war between the colonists and the British.
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A document which claims the states free and independent and lists the crimes of the king.
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Daniel Shays and his followers rebel against the collection of debts but the rebellion is broken up by the troops
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A compromise among a divided convention concerning the legislature and representation of the states
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The Constitution answers questions about sovereignty and limiting power
Soveignity- Supreme Power -
Ten ammendments passed by Congress, more like laws
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A refusual by Western Pennsylvania farmers to pay the new whiskey excise tax which led to an unsuccessful rebellion
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Jefferson purchases Louisiana so that American trade access to the port of New Orleans would not be blocked
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Marbury takes Madison to the Supreme Court to hand over his commission, but the Court does not let him
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A war between the U.S. and Great Britain which ended in a U.S. victory
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James Monroe announces this policy which declares that the American colonies should not be considered for colonization by European powers
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The Erie Canal goes from the Hudson River to Lake Erie
It opens and heavy traffic quickly follows -
It was a volient slave resistance in which sixty white southerners were killed while sleeping by Nat Turner and his followers
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A forced trek to Indian Territory out West in which thousands of Indians die
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Morse code is used to send signals along an electrical cable as a major advancement in communication, It was how people in the past sent messages in a faster way
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A powerful book on abolitionism is published and becomes very popular
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An event in which John Brown and his followers kill five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas
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The Supreme Court ruling that Dred Scott would not be granted freedom from slavery, because he is not a citizen and could not bring the case to court
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An event in which John Brown and his followers seize an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in order to start a slave rebellion which is unsuccessful
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The First Battle of Bull Run shows the war's beginning which ends with a Union Victory and the freeing of slaves
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Plan to offer amnesty to white Southerners
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An agency which helped protect former slaves by providing food, schooling, and some land
