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The invention of the steam engine was revolutionary for its time. This invention lead to the creation of the steam locomotive and the steamboat.
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A compromise was made between the northern and southern states that a slave would be counted at 3/5 of a person.
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Shays' rebellion was an uprising in Massachusetts. Daniel Shays, who was a war veteran, experianced financial difficulties due to the government after he left the war.
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The Cotton Gin made the procces of removing the seeds out of the cotton plant extremly simple. This invention increased cotton productoin and made the slaves' jobs easier.
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The electric telegraph is a now outdated communication system that transmitted electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message. It was used to communicate between long distances.
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Before leaving his term as president, Washington gives a speech regarding how the country should handle itself. Washington's farewell address was Washington's way of making sure that America could still thirve.
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The presidention election of 1796 was the first contested American election and the only one to elect a President and Vice President from opposing sides.
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The electtoin of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was a hard-fought campaign. Both sides believed that victory by the other would ruin the nation.
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France sold 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River to the U.S at five cents an acre( about $238 million in todays dollars).
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After the Louisiana purchase, Lewis and Clark were sent on a great expedition to explore the land.
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Jefferson's response to the British impressment was the Embargo Act that shut off all use of US ports.
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Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act that would let him recieve the land that the indians had while they would walk onto disclosed reservations. This act caused the Trail of Tears.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that wasa major recession that lasted until the 1840s. Profits, prices and wages went down while unemployment went up.
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The Civil War between the northern and southern states, regarding their conflicting opinoins on slavery, began on April 12 1861. The Union and Confederate forces fought against each other for several years untill the Confederates finally surrendered.
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The Transcontinental Railroad was conected the U.S from San Fransisco Bay all the way to Iowa. It was the first country-crossing railroad ever made in the U.S and was an extremly revolutionary piece.
