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Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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A device that made textile easier
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The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.
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A new tax that was imposed on all American colonist and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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First shots are fired at Lexington and Concord.
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Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons.
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A group of people that were angered by Britian's colonial policy, started harrassing a groupd of soldiers guarding the customs house. A soldier was knocked off his horse which caused an uproar and five people were killed
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Taxers threw the tea over board into the boston harbor.
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Bristish & American soliders exchanged fire in the Massachusettes towns of Lexington and Concord.
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A battle between Boston and British troops.
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The british troop oredered to move some of the planks and grease the rest of them
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David Bushnell invents a submarine
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America proclamed its independence from Great Britian.
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Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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Betsy ross sows the first glag with 13 stars.
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The British against American troops.
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British General Charles Cornwallis surrenedered his army of some 8,000 men to George Washington at York Town.
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The Montgolfier brothers invent the hot-air balloon.
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Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
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Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, structuring settlement of the Northwest Territory and creating a new policy for the addition of the new states to the nation.
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Delware ratifys the United States Constitution.
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George Washington was elected into office
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America adopted the bill of rights.
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Conflicts fought between the French Republic Government and several European monarchies.
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Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
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A war fought at sea between the United States and the French Republic.
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Led Lewis and Clark on their expedition to find the Pacific Ocean.
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Military conflict between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Bristish soldiers attack US troops in New Orleans.
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Indians were forced to relocate and up to 6,000 indians died on the trip.
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First recorded baseball match was held June 19,1846 at the Elysian Fields.
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Dred Scott goes to court to sue for his freedom.
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26th US president. He was part of the progressive movement
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Elected the 16th president of the US.
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A Chicago inventor, Ives McGaffey pattend a "sweeping machiene".
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Helped generate the general theory of relativity.
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Invented the first telephone.
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Led the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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Invented the light bulb.
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Jesse Reno created the "moving stairs",
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Created the first car.
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First rigid frammed airship.
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the oil industry begins
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American interest in linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by means of a canal across Central America had existed for many years. With the signing of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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Theordore Roosevelt was responsible for giving the bear its name. People starting calling Roosevelt, Theordore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
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This was the start of world war 1.
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The United States formally declared war against Germany and enetered the conflict in Europe.
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Signed the 19th Amendment.
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John Larson invented the lie detector or a polygraph.
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The 19th Amendement officially took effect.
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Charles Lindemberg becomes the first man to complete a nonstop transAtlantic airplane flight, from New York to Paris.
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This was the date he was elected president. His presidential term ended April 12th, 1945
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