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The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. Once he found America, he thought it was the east indies. He originally wanted a shorter way to get to India, but began genocide.
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso writes that Jamestown "is where the British Empire began".
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he French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
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British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.
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A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state.
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a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis
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the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.
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a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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Consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France
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a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom and their respective allies.
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an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri
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the presidential election of Andrew Jackson
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a financial crisis in the United States
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Forced removal of the Native Americans from their homelands
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the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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a conflict between The U.S. and the United Mexican States
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An attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston
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A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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the 16th President of the United States was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, also known as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and the Wright Brothers invented the airplane.
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The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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After McKinley's assassination in September 1901, Roosevelt became president at age 42, and remains the youngest president.
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The trust was designed to allow Rockefeller and other Standard Oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another.