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In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue! On this date in time Christopher Columbus and his ships landed on the Americas and created history.
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On this day the first African slaves arrived in America.
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A group of settlers arrived to the “new land” and settled down. They then disappeared and no one knows what happened. The only things they left behind were two clues. A word carved into a tree and a word carved into one of their gate posts.
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He was an African who either worked as a slave or an indentured servant on a tobacco plantation. Anthony nearly died multiple times but eventually had a family and lived on a rented piece of land. He died there.
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A group of settlers landed in Virginia and created the famous Jamestown settlement. It became the first permanent settlement.
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The mayflower compact created laws for the pilgrims. It was a short document stating that they would stay loyal to the king.
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On this date in time the king signed the charter of Pennsylvania allowing it to be a colony.
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The Salem Witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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This was a period when spiritually and religious devotion were revived.
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This plan was to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. It was suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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After years of conflicts between the Americans and the French the Americans finally declared war on the French. It ended up involving multiple other countries and creating wars between other countries.
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The stamp act taxed American colonists on all legal documents. It’s as placed on them by the British without their consent.
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He gained popularity after being the U.S. army general and was then elected to be our 7th president.
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It was a deadly riot. It started as a street argument between American colonists and a British soldier and ended up being a chaotic event.
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American colonists were mad at the British tea tax so they dressed up as Native Americans and dumped tea into the harbor.
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Rather then trying to go for independence they passed and signed the Continental association which put a boycott on all British goods.
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They met after the revolutionary war had begun and officially declared independence from Britain.
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These battles kicked of the revolutionary war.
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They were the first constitution of the United States.
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The British surrendered in the siege of Yorktown.
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It was an armed uprising by veterans of the war who were in opposition of the debt crisis and not getting much anything for fighting the war. It was started and led by Shay.
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During the Constitutional convention they were dividing how America would be governed.
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New Hampshire was the 9th to ratify the constitution so it became the official framework of the government of the United States of America.
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George Washington fought hard and did many great things for America so they thought it would be best for him to be the first president and he was. But he stepped down after some years because he didn’t want to become like a king.
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This was his “I’m retiring from being president” letter to the people.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent. The four laws restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country and limited freedom of speech and of the press.
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Thomas Jefferson was elected to be president.
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This was when the U.S. bought Louisiana from France because France needed the money which is why they sold it.
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It was the expedition to cross the newly acquired western land after the Louisiana purchase.
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It was a war between the U.S. and its allies and Britain and their allies.
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The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
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It is an antis-slavery novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
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In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
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It was fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America.
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Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It said "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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They were the first amendments made to the U.S. constitution in 60 years. Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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On this date in time I, Emmakate, was born just outside of Detroit Michigan.
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On this date in time I joined OLY swimming. This started what would become lifelong friendships, traveling the country with some of my best friends, and getting to meet olympians and wear gold medals. I am still swimming on OLY today.
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On this date in time I came to Oakland Christian School. I came in 3rd grade.
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In November of 2019 I decided to move to Lake Orion High school. This was a big change but lots of good came from it.
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I decided to come back to OCS. I am happy with my decision. Although I loved Lake Orion the switch back was the right move!
