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When France started expanding close to the Ohio River, a British territory, squabbles broke out. These squabbles led to a deceleration of war by Britain. France got the support of the local Indian tribes, but despite this ally, they lost the war.
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The Industrial Revolution was the transitional period of going from hand production to machine produced material. This transition brought things such as new iron production methods, rise of the factory system, and use of steam-powered engines. A lot of terms used today, such as the middle class and capitalism, saw their birth during this time period.
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest against British taxes on tea. On that night, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships filled with tea shipments and threw 372 chests of tea overboard. This brought the colonies and Britain closer to war.
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The Revolutionary War was the armed conflict between Great Britain and its American colonies. The colonies were tired of their poor treatment, and wanted to become independent from Britain. America won the war and became independent.
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The United States Constitution was written to replace the weak Articles of Confederation. It was signed and written by the Constitutional Convention, which was presided over by George Washington. The Constitution set up things such as the three branches and representation in government.
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The first factory ever built in the United States was built by Samuel Slater. He memorized the factories seen in Britain and built one by memory in the United States. It was a factory to produce spindles of yarn, and was the first of many to come.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition was the first American expedition across the west of the United States. It was commissioned by president Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis and Clark gained valuable information and mapped quite a bit of the area.
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The Missouri Compromise was a response to tensions between anti and pro slavery factions within the United States. It let Maine be a free state, while admitting Missouri as a slave state, so that the delicate balance between free and slave states would remain.
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The concept of Manifest Destiny stated that Americans not only could, but should, stretch from coast to coast in the United States. This caused a lot of Americans to try exploring and moving to the West. This expansion and ideology could be blamed for the downfall of the Native Americans.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of conflicts in the US between abolitionists and slave supporters. At the time, the decision to outlaw or allow slavery in Kansas was still being mulled over, and the heated debate turned violent. The conflict spread from Kansas to the rest of the United States.
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The Civil War is the bloodiest war in US history. Fought between the slave-supporting South and the abolitionist North, this war devastated the South for years to come.
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The Reconstruction Era was a period of time after the Civil War in which efforts were made to restore the Southern United States. The South had recently lost the war, and a lot of buildings, farms, and such were absolutely destroyed; not to mention their currency was now completely useless. Both President Lincoln and Johnson did their best to help the struggling South become part of the United States again.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, only days after the end of the Civil War.
