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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament.
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After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act.
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A 2,100-man British force under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated Major General Nathanael Greene's 4,500 Americans .
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After the Constitution was ratified, Washington unanimously won the presidential election and took the oath of office in New York on April 30, 1789. At the time he was elected President, there were no established political parties in the United States.
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Virginia became the 10th of 14 states to approve 10 of the 12 amendments, thus giving the zbill of Rights the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it legal.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitiution that guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave.
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A cotton gin is a machine that guickly and easily seperates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton seperation.
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Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congres as America prepared for war with France.
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Accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploratoin of the Western United States.
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Around this time, the underground railroad was established.
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The Senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln-Douglas debate of 1858, the most famous politcal debates in American history.
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Slavery is outlawed
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The Civil Right Act wasa United States federal law enacted during hte Reconstruction Era that guaranteed Arican Americans equal treatment in public accomodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service.
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Two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both indeemdemtly designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone).
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The Wright Flyer was the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers.
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An American insustrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913.
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Was a United Sytates federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country.
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