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On September 17, 1787, a majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May.
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Resentment for Britain’s interference with American international trade, combined with American expansionist visions, led Congress to declare war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812.
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United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles of Mexicanland from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.
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James Wilson Marshall discovered gold while constructing a saw mill
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Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas–Abraham Lincoln’s opponent in the influential Lincoln-Douglas debates–the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise
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John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry
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Surrender of Fort Sumter
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Crossed the Mississippi River on April 30
