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The Black Death arrivies in Europe and eventually killed millions.
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The Renaissance began.
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Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas.
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Juan Ponce De Leon discovered the coast of Florida.
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France built its first North American settlement in Florida.
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Colonists founded Jamestown ,the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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The Dutch founded New Neatherland as a trading post for exchanging furs with the Irquois.
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About fourty -one male passengers on the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact.This had them agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good.
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A group of 200 English Catholics came to Maryland.
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The people of Connecticut drew up the English colonies first written constitution.
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The members of the Massachusetts legilature called for a Stamp Act Congress. Delegates from nine colonies had then met in New York.
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Tension exploded between Bostonians and soliders on March 5th ,when a lone Britsh solider standing guard had an argument with a coloniest and struck him.
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The tea act was passed,ehich allowed the British East India company to sell tea diretly to the colonists.
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All the colonies except Georgia sent representatives to a meeting because of the mountaing crisis. This meeting was a gathering of colonial leafers who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America.
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Washington moved his army to Dorchester Heights.
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The thirteen colonies issued the Decarartion of Independence and break away from Great Britain.
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Slavery became legal in all the colonies.
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The Second Continental Congress passed the Articles of Confederation.
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The Spanish officials closed the lower Mississippi River to U.S. Shipping.
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The United States started using the dollar currency.
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Delaware the 1st state to ratify the constition.
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10 of the Admendments were ratified.
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The disputed that had arisen between the United States and Great Britain in the early 1900's were settled by Jay's Treaty.
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The Amendement protects the states from lawsuits filled by citzens of other states or countries.
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Senates approved the Louisiana Purchase agreement, which doubled the size of the United States roughly.
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Without trouble the Clermont traveled up the Hudson River against the current.
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The Non- Intercourse Act was passes by cngress.
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In 1815, New Yorkers celebrate the end of the War of 1812 and the return of free trade.
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The United States started enjoying the Era of Good Feelings, which was a time of peace,pride,and progress.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was the most violent slave revolt in the country .
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Cholera epidemics had many New Yorkers suffering and dying.
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A severe economic depression began,shortly after Van Buren took office.
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Mexico and the United States signed the Treaty of Guadaluoe Hidalgo. This officially ended war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its northern territory to the Unites States.
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Seneca Falls Convention was announced on July 19, 1848, by Stanton and Mott. This was the first public meeting about women's rights held in the United States.
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The Fugitive Slave Act is passed by congress.
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President Lincoln was inaugurated.
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When African America's are brought back into New York City to replace striking Irish dock workers, riots started to break out.
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The 54th Massachusetts Infantry led to a heroic charge on South Carolina's Fort Wagner.
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Congress proposed the thirteenth Amendment.
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All the southern states except Texas had created new governments.
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The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified and took effect.
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This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
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Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts.
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Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment.
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Democrats agreed to accept Haye's victory.
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U.S. Supreme Court returned to the issue of segregation.
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Selling,shipping,and shipping of alcoholic beverages are banned.
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The Mexican army tried to remove a cannon from the town of Gonzales, Texas,
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The earliest hunter-gathers were learning how to farm.
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Earth's climate grew warmer,and the the Ice Age ended.
