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Christopher Columbus Discovered America in 1492 with his three ships the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria sailed from the Spanish port of Palos going west until he discovered America by accident.
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Jamestown is where the first English settlement in North America colonize.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the military engagements of the revolutionary wars. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, some of the wars occurred at Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Lincoln, Menotomy, Cambridge within the towns of Lexington and Concord that why it was named battles Lexington and Concord.
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A statement written by Thomas Jefferson. It was mainly written to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. It was written
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The Constitutional Convention occurred from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Many things were discussed in this assembly such as the numbers of the state representative in the Congress etc.
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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father. He was the 3rd American president who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
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When the United States of America purchased the territory Louisiana Purchase during the 1803.
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The Missouri Compromise was when the Congress tried to defuse the regional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri in 1819 for recognition as a state in which slavery would be allowed. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, and it was evenly divided between slave and free.
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Andrew Jackson, The 7th president of the US. The presidency of Andrew Jackson began on March 4, 1829.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed on May 28, 1830, by President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he remained in Illinois which was a free state and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked the power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th US president. His presidency began March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865. President Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War; Its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter which was the start of the civil wr began on April 12–13, 1861.This battle was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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President Abraham Lincoln addressed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the country neared its third year of murderous civil war. The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President. he was American President from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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The Thirteenth Amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and was ratified on December 6, 1865. it was the amendment which abolished slavery in America.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. But the resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which remained hardly a few hours, completely brought the four-year Civil War to an end, On April 9, 1865.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the beginning of a meaningful law limiting immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers.
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act approved on July 2, 1890, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Governmental act that prevented monopolistic industry practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first step given by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. Several states had passed similar laws, but they were limited to intrastate businesses.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law crisis of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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The Spanish–American War was upheld between the United States and Spain in 1898. Resentments began in the result of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. invasion.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American man who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
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World War I began in 1914, after the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and continued until 1918. As the conflict,continued netween Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).
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The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama it was created on August 15, 1914. It connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
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World War One ended at 11 am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918. Germany signed an agreement for peace and no more fighting that had been prepared by Britain and France.
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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918.
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The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The eighteenth amendment was banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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The Nineteenth Amendment was adopted on August 18, 1920. it prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
