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Christopher Columbus was the captain of a ship called the Mayflower which was the first successful landing onto the new country.
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An unsuccessful settlement that lasted only 3 years
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He was a free black man who went to America to be more free. He lived from 1600-1670
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The people of Jamestown landed on 1607 and it was the first and most successful of the many settlement to come
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Slavery began when a group of English settlers brought a bunch of black people with them from Great Britain. These blacks then began doing slave labor
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The Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in America, it lasted from 1620-1691
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This was a colony created by the dictate of the King of Britain
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Salem witch trials were women who were supposedly witches who went to trials, then those who were “proven“ to be witches were prosecuted.
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Also known as the Evangelical revival.
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This was to create a unified Government
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The French and Indian allies were fighting the British colonies in America
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This stamp act was done by the Britain to gain taxes from the settlers in America.
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A Riot protesting the taxes from the king.
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Another protest again the taxes, the Bostoners were dumping millions of dollars worth of tea into the sea.
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Delegates from the colonies tried to gain alliances from the British
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The first of the military conflicts between the Americans and the British.
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Delegates from the colonies decide to win independence from the other countries
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Britain surrenders
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Replaced the US constitution
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An armed uprising in 1786
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It was to decide how America was to be governed
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Became the official framework of the Government
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George Washington becomes president in 1789
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A book wrote by George Washington after serving the country for 20 years
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4 laws that passed by the American government and signed by the president john Adams
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Thomas Jefferson was elected in 1801
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Louisiana area was purchased for $15 million by the US from the French
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Explorers were attempting to cross the newly acquired land
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A war in 1812
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Named Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state
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The best known US policy towards the Western Hemisphere
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He became the president in 1829
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He joined in 1847
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Confronted the problem of slavery
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Part of the Compramise of 1850
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It was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A land mark decision made by the US congress
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Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860
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Violent civil confrontation in Kansas
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All slaves shall be freed
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The civil war lasted from 1861-1865
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Civil war amendments
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Lincoln was assasinated in 1865
