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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta document was adopted
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William Bradford became govenor of Plymouth Colony.
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King Phillip
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Salem Witch Trials
A total of 26 women were accused of being witches be cause of two little girls . They witches were all women. They were all either hanged, burned or thorwn to the ocean with a rock tying them down -
King Willim takes the throne
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Masssachusetts
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Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht.
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Louisianna is founded by the French
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Baltimore is founded in the colony of Maryland
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Benjamin publishes a Poor Richards Almanac
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Killing of Slaves
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Passsing of the Iron Act
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French and Indian War
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Seven Years war ended
The French and Indian War, known in Europe as the Seven Year's War, ends with the Treaty of Paris. Under the treaty, France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba. -
The Currency Act was passed
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America Grows
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Corcive Act
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Declaration of Independence
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Cancensus Act was passed by Congress
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Benjamin died in Boston at the age of 49
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Fugitive Slave At passed
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Adams inargurated as president
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Moving the Capital
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Slavery is Outlawed in the OH!!!
Ohio outlaws slavery -- September. James Callender makes the accusation that Thomas Jefferson has "for many years past kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves," Sally Hemings. It is published in the Richmond Recorder that month, and the story is soon picked up by Federalist presses around the country. Callender, a Republican, has previously been an avid investigator of Federalist scandals. In 1798, Jefferson had helped pay for the publication of Callender's pamphlet The Prospect Be -
Lewis and Clark
May. The expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departs, moving up the Missouri River. (Lewis and Clark map, with annotations... Geography and Map Division) -
Aaron Burr
January 17. Aaron Burr is captured near New Orleans. He escapes but is recaptured and imprisoned. In April, Burr is charged with treason and tried in Richmond in a federal circuit court presided over by John Marshall.* Burr is acquitted. Later, with other charges pending, Burr escapes to England. (*Winfield Scott, then a young lawyer, attends the trial as a spectator.) -
War Ship Leopard
The British warship Leopard attacks the American ship Chesapeake off the Virginia coast because its captain refused to allow the British to board and search for deserters. Three American seamen are killed and eighteen wounded as the British force a boarding and remove four alleged deserters. After learning of the attack on June 25, Jefferson calls an emergency cabinet meeting. -
War of !812
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Napolean Wins!!!
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Georgia and Karl Marx
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote
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Mexico
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Slavery illegal in The NY
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Underground Rail
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Texas In dependence
Texas declares independence from Mexico -
Panic of 1837
Depression begins with "Panic of 1837" -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore -
Precidency overthrown
Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico -
War with Mexico
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Compromise of 1850
– Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state but Fugitive Slave Law enacted.
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Mass production of steel
Henry Bessemer invents process that allows mass production of steel; adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua; five slavery supporters are killed in a Kansas raid led by John Brown. -
Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhem
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Beginning of Battle of Fort Sumter
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End of Battle of Fort Sumter
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Emancipation Proclemation
Document that declared all slaves in slave states still in rebellion to be free. -
Assination of Lincoln
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Blacks on congress
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Jim Crow laws
- “Jim Crow” laws enacted in Tennessee
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Disputed Election
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Billy the kid is killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
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James Garfield Assasination
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Jeses James
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Washington Monument Finished
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Jane addams founds hull House
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Yosemite National Park was created
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Baltimore crisis
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James Naismith invents basketball
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Utah become a State
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Nothing For blacks
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McKinley Assassinated
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Wright Brothers First Flight
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SAn FRansico Earthquake
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TAFT elected president
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NAACP founded by W.E.B. Du Bois
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NAACP founded by W.E.B. Du Bois
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New Mexico and Arizona become States
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Henry Ford develops the modern assembly line.
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Treaty of Versailles end World War 1
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18th Amendment, Establishing Prohibition
