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requires that most imports to the colonies must be transported via England on English ships.
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The British Navigation Act of 1673 sets up the office of customs commissioner in the colonies to collect duties on goods that pass between plantations.
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The bloody war rages up and down the Connecticut River valley in Massachusetts and in the Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, eventually resulting in 600 English colonials being killed and 3,000 Native Americans, including women and children on both sides. King Philip (the colonist's nickname for Metacomet, chief of the Wampanoags) is hunted down and killed on August 12, 1676, in a swamp in Rhode Island, ending the war in southern New England and ending the independent power of Native Americans
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protecting its own wool industry by limiting wool production in Ireland and forbidding the export of wool from the American colonies.
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passed by the English Parliament, imposes heavy duties on molasses, rum and sugar imported from non-British islands in the Caribbean to protect the English planters there from French and Dutch competition.
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limiting the growth of the iron industry in the American colonies to protect the English Iron industry
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That night, the Boston Tea Party occurs as colonial activists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians then board the ships and dump all 342 containers of tea into the harbor.
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which include the Massachusetts Regulating Act and the Government Act virtually ending any self-rule by the colonists there. Instead, the English Crown and the Royal governor assume political power formerly exercised by colonists. Also enacted; the Administration of Justice Act which protects royal officials in Massachusetts from being sued in colonial courts, and the Quebec Act establishing a centralized government in Canada controlled by the Crown and English Parliament. The Quebec Act greatly
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A tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr does not become known till the end of the month. This throws the election into the House of Representatives which addresses the matter on February 11, 1801.
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Jefferson asks Congress for funds for an expedition to explore the Mississippi River and beyond in search of a route to the Pacific. Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's private secretary, begins planning the expedition, which forms late in 1803
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He is eighty-three years old. Several hours later John Adams, aged 90, dies in Massachusetts, and the nation is struck by this remarkable coincidence. The last letter Jefferson wrote to Adams was on March 23 requesting that Adams see his grandson, which Adams did. Just before he died, Jefferson wrote the following to be read at the July 4 celebration in Virginia:
"May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finall -
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2 July 1881 by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker
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happened when city marshal Virgil Earp, his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday try to disarm Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury; in the fight, Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury are killed and Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday are wounded
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7 officers are killed by a bomb and 8 anarchists are arrested despite their lack of involvement; when several are executed, Howells protests.
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nicknamed the "White City" for its lights and architecture. Most of its buildings are destroyed by fire in January 1894.
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results in 260 deaths, leading to the battle slogan "Remember the Maine!"
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leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead
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providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures
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The first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis
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of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband
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completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman
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