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Navigation Act of 1663
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Navigation Act of 1673
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. -
King Philip's War
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 -
Quakers in Pennsylvania issue a formal protest against slavery in America.
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The English Parliament passes the Wool Act.
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French established a settlement in Detriot
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the Carolina colony is officially divided into North Carolina and South Carolina.
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the Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves into that colony
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Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony.
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George Washington is born in Virginia
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The Molasses Act
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Fifty black slaves are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, after plans for another revolt are revealed.
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The Iron Act is passed by the English Parliament
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About 8000 Bostonians gather to hear Sam Adams tell them Royal Governor Hutchinson has repeated his command not to allow the ships out of the harbor until the tea taxes are paid
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. -
Bostonians at a town meeting call for a boycott of British imports in response to the Boston Port Bill
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The English Parliament enacts the next series of Coercive Acts
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 -
n Cambridge, Mass., a provincial congress is held during which John Hancock and Joseph Warren begin defensive preparations for a state of war
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the English Parliament declares Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion
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in Virginia, Patrick Henry delivers a speech against British rule, stating, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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the New England Restraining Act is endorsed by King George III, requiring New England colonies to trade exclusively with England and also bans fishing in the North Atlantic.
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Electors meet in their states and cast votes for the next president of the United States
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. -
The electors' votes for president are officially opened and counted in Congress
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Louisiana Purchase
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 -
War of 1812 with Britain (15% sailors Black)
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Napoleon finally, finally defeated at Waterloo.
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Georgia prohibits Manumission -- Karl Marx born in Germany
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote
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Georgia prohibits Manumission -- Karl Marx born in Germany
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Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
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 -
Texas declares independence from Mexico
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Martin van Buren elected President
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Depression begins with "Panic of 1837"
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James K. Polk elected President
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Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico
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War with Mexico
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
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President Filmore dies in office, succeeded by Franklin Pierce
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Henry Bessemer invents process that allows mass production of steel
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Lincoln elected President
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Union loses First Battle of Bull Run
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Lee Surrenders
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Civil Rights Act passed
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45th Congress has three Black members.
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46th Congress has one Black member
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Garfield is shot in the back
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A gunfight breaks out near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona
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 -
Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public.
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Haymarket Riot
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Great Blizzard of 1888
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World's Columbian Exhibition opens in Chicago
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First use of X-rays to treat breast cancer
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The Klondike gold rush begins
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The explosion and sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor
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Annexation of Hawaii.
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Galveston hurricane
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U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone
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Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration
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Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is established
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William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Panama Canal opens to traffic
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U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million
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Jeannette Rankin
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Wilson's second inauguration
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Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president
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Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools
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Charles Lindbergh
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Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president
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Stock market crash precipitates the Great Depression
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway
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Amelia Earhart
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Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president
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Franklin Roosevelt's second inauguration
