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Columbus finds America and calls the inhabitants indians
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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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.
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the Grand Convention at Philadelphia took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The cotton gin was invented in October 28th, 1793.
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Signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803.
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years.
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819.
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The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that started a major recession that lasted until the mid 1840s.
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands and to migrate to an area in Oklahoma.
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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication.
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The Mexican–American War, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
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Senator Henry Clay came up with a bunch of resolutions in that he hoped would stop a crisis between the North and South.
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General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on Fort Sumter.
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President Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of civil war.
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the 13th amendmant abolished slavery and prohibits it, the 14th amendant says that anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen, the 15th amendmant keeps the government from keeping anyone from voting based on there race or color.
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Harried mercilessly by Federal troops and continually cut off from turning south, Lee headed west, he arrived in Appomattox County on April 8.
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play.
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For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson.
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Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company.
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Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone.
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Thomas Edison invented this amazing tool in 1879. (theres no specifics on the exact month and day)
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the only difference between slavery at Pullman and what it was down South before the war is that the owners took care of the slaves when they were sick and here they don't.
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict that resulted in the U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Teddy or TR served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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The Airplane was invented by the wright brothers.