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Christopher Columbus first sets foot on the Americas
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Conqured the Aztec Empire.
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The Spanishn government legalized the sale of slaves in its colonies.
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The tranportation of plants and animals from the Americas to Europe, Aisa, and Africa.
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105 colonists sent by London COmpany founded Jamestown, the first permanent English Settlement in North America.
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A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good.
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A period in rpid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid- 1700s
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Performs famous experiment using kite to show that electricity exists in storm clouds.
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The sugar Act is passed to raise money from the colonies for Britain.
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The Stamp Act taxes newspapers, licenses, and colonial paper products.
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A large tension colonists used it as a propaganda against the British.
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The Tea Act is Passes, making British tea cheaper than colonila tea.
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A gathering of colonial leaders who wwere deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and it's colonies in America.
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Boston Harbor is closed, and British troops are quartered.
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Commanded the COntinental Army.
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An important patriot victory and took more than 900 prisoners
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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and declared America free from British rule.
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A set of basic principles and laws that state the powers and duties of the government.
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The last majour battle of the American Revolution.
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A body of electors who represent the people's vote in choosing the president.
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Great Birtain recognized the independence of the United States.
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10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizens' rights.
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The idea that the greatest number of people in society can make policies for everyone.
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A machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton.
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farmers lashing out against the tax on whiskey.
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An agreemnet, which roughly doubled the size of the United States
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The law essentially banned trade with all foreign countries.
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Lewis and Clark beginning a long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
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This new law banned trade only with Britain, France, and their colonies.
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United States and Great Britain are at war.
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Oliver Hazard Perry sailed out to meet the British and break thir control of Lake Erie.
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A time of peace, pride, and progress.
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supporters of Jackson Candidacy.
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A network of people who arranged transportation for fugitives and slaves.
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Authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the west.
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A device that could send information over wires across great distance.
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Its members wanted immediate empancipation and racila equality for African Americans.
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A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
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Antislavery notherners formed a new aprty which supported the Wilmot Proviso.
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California was able to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cesion was divided into two territories-Utah and New Mexico-where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.
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Freeing of slaves.
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The first majour battle of the Civil War.
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A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, begginging the Civil War
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The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War- and of U.S. history.
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The key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates.
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President Lincoln's speech in which he praised the vravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War.
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The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
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This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
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This act provided African American With the same legal rights as white Americans.
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Treaty which officialy ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its Northern territory to the United States