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Christiper Columbus fleet of three ships set sail from the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1942. The explorer returned to Spain with gold, spices, and "Indian" captives in March 1493 and was received with the highest honors by the Spanish court. He was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century.
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English settlers began founded Jamestown, Virginia. It was the first English colony in the Americas. The colony struggled until the settlers begean to groww tabacco to ship to Europe.
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The French and Indian War, a colonial extension of the Seven Years War that ravaged Europe from 1756 to 1763, was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source
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George Washington becomes president and gets reelected in 1792
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With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north.
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Texas establishes itself as a republic, with Sam Houston as it's first president
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Texas establishes itself as a republic, with Sam Houston as it's first president
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He sends the first telegraph message
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Abraham Lincoln wins presidential election to become 16th president of the United States
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The Civil war began when conferate forces fired on Fort Sumter,a Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina. Lincoln issued a call for troops to restore the union. Four more states seceded.
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The civil war ends
Lincoln is assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president -
The Uez Canal gets opened
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red cloud chief of the Ogala Sioux, states his peoples casein washington, D.C
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The battle was a last stand effort of the Lakota and Chyanne warriors against Custer and the Seventh Calvery. Custer rode into the battle ground with 263 men to fight and kill the Chyanne and Lakota worriers. The battle ended when the combined 7,000 Chyanne and Lakota warriors sluaghtered custer and his men.
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he invents a workable light bulb
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The aiming to "Americanize" Native Americans. The act broke up the reservations and gave side off the reservation land back to individual Native Americans
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350 Sioux men, women, and children were shot and killed after a member of the tribe got up to do the Ghost Dance
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He sends federal troops to Illinois to end the pullman strike
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McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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the appearance of the the comet causes wide spread panic