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Achieved a decisive victory at bloody brook.
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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
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All roman catholic priest had to leave within 3 months or be arrested.
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Fifty Slaves were killed in Charleston, South Carolina. After the plan of a revolt was revealed.
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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.
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The population of the American colonies reaches 2,210,000 persons.
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In April, Massachusetts Governor Gage is ordered to enforce the Coercive Acts and suppress "open rebellion" among the colonists by all necessary force.
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June. The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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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
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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)
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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.)
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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.
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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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Mexico becomes a republic – outlaws slavery
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Slavery illegal in New York
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“Underground Railroad” established
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Texas declares independence from Mexico
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Depression begins with "Panic of 1837"
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Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore
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Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico
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– Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state but Fugitive Slave Law enacted.
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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.
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1859 - Theodore Roosevelt AND KAISER WILHELM BORN
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Document that declared all slaves in slave states still in rebellion to be free.
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43rd Congress has seven Black members
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DISPUTED ELECTION – DEAL MADE TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM SOUTH
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jesse James was shot and killed by Robert and Charlie Ford
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Souther states pass laws to disenfranchise blacks
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