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The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers. It was primarily fought in Europe and the Americas.
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ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies -
The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston -
the Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
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The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution
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The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed -
Washington was elected with 69 of the 69 first-round votes cast in the United States Electoral College. With this election, he became the only U.S. president to be unanimously chosen. -
Articles 3 to 12, ratified December 15, 1791, by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. -
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. -
In 1807, three weeks before Britain abolished the Atlantic slave trade, President Jefferson signed a law prohibiting “the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States."
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The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America -
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The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs
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An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal east of the river Mississipp
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"Manifest destiny" is a phrase that represents the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward -
On December 29, 1845, Texas officially became the twenty-eighth state in the Union although the formal transfer of government did not take place until February 19, 1846 -
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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South")
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of both the Civil War and of any battle in American military history -
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
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"Wealth",[2] more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth",[3] is an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in June[4] of 1889[5] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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utah gave up polygamy and became a state of the usa
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The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895. The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the U.S. and Spain, ending with the loss of Spain's overseas empire and the U.S. emerging as a world