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The incaas were very good builders, lawmakers, and wrarriors. within 200 years the incan civilization had grown to include all of present day peru.
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during the 1400s several events had a great effect on exploration one event was th development of the compass.
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one of the first spanish explorers to go to the new world after columbus was juan ponce de leon. in 1513 he lead a group in search of gold and the "fountain of youth."
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the pilgrims wanted to break away from the church of england completely. many of them fled to holland in western europe.
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The puritans were a religious group. like the pilgrims they were unhappy with the way the king treated them. Many of the puritans were in a group called the parliament.
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Great Britian decided to start enforcing the navigation acts that were passed between 1651 and 1673. The purpose of the acts was to regulate colonial trade.
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in 1754 major general Edward Braddock was appointed commmander in chief of the british army in america. the british expected that war would break out any moment the fight would later be known as the French and Indian war or the Seven years war.
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Samuel adams a member of the Massachusetts legislature, organized town meetings in boston. A group called the Sons of Liberty, first set up in 1765 to protest the stamp ac took charge of the city.
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a crowd gathered near a group of british soldiers the crowd began throwing stones and snowballs at the soldiers. the soldiers then fired a round of shots into the crowd. the first to fall was w free African Cripus Attucks.
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Benedict Arnold had fought in the battles of quebec and Saratoga. He had shown strong military ability and courage. General washington appointed him to command West point the strongest and most important fort in america.
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Great britains control of America had been made stronger by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. This treaty established the new nations boundaries Canada on the the north the Mississippi River on the west and Florida on the south.
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The spanish controlled Florida, New orleans and the land west of the Mississippi river. Because they could not use New orleans western settelers had to travel by land. THe united states was to weak to force the Spanish to change thier policy.
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On sSeptember 17,1787 the delegates signed the Constitution with the hope that the states would approve it. The delegates work was done. It was up to the states to decide if the constistution was acceptable as the law of the land.
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The spanish controlled the Mississippi river as well as New Orleans, which the americans needed for a trade route. Spain also controlled a section of Florida that the americans occupied. Surprisingly spain agreed to permit free Navigation on the Mississippi in 1795.
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The election of 1800 was the frist real contest between Democratic - Republicans and Fedralists. although the Democratic - Republicans party was formed before before the election of 1796, its competition with the fedralist party did not develop until 1800.
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beginning in a.d. 900 the toltecsled a strong civilization in the mexican highlands. experts believe that nomads took over the toltecs about 1200.
