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U.S. History
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Stamp Act passed
Tax on paper goods. -
Stamp Act repealed
England repeals the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre
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Battle of Alamance
Between the militia of North Caroliona and the Regulators. -
The Boston Tea Party
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
During the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War -
The Declaration Of Independence
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Thomas jefferson
Was an American founding father, the principal author of the DOI. -
Battle of Cowpens
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Battle of Guilford Courthouse
One of the most bloodiest and intense battles of the war -
Battle of Yorktown
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The Treaty of Paris
Ends the Revolutionary War -
George Washington
He becomes president -
Bill of Rights apporved
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Raleigh
Becomes the first state capital of NC -
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin was made so it would be easier and quicker to remove the fibers and seeds from the cotton. -
University of NC opens
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John Adams becomes president
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Act prohibiting importation of slaves.
U.S. law/act ends legal importation of enskaved Africans. -
Missouri Compromise
A bill that temporaily resolves the first serious political clash between slavery and antislavery interest in U.S. history -
Indian removal act
Andrew Jackson negociated with the native americans for their removal to ferderal trretory west of the mississippi river in exchange for their homelands. -
Baseball
Baseball becomes Americas pasttime. -
compromise of 1850
A package of 5 bills that passed in the United States -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves wheather or nto to allow slavery in the borders -
Abraham Lincoln
He was elected president -
South Caolina seeced from the union
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Confederate states
The confederate states of america is formed -
South Carolina
South Carolina troops fire on fort sumter -
North Carolina seeceds
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Battle of New Bern
union general captured North Carolinas second largest city and closes another port through with the confederate could slip supplies -
Zebbulon Vance
He became the governer -
Abraham Lincoln
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation -
Battle of Getttysburg
Th batttle involved the largest number of caualties of the entire world and its often described as the wars turning point -
Freedmens Bureau
Abe signed a bill stating slaves are now freedmens -
Robert E Lee
He surrenders at Appomattox Virgina. he surrendered to union genreal Ulysses S Grant, ending the american civil war -
Thirteenth Admedment Ratified
Abolished slavery -
Fourtennth Amedment ratified
Gra ted citizenship to all oersons born or naturalized in the UInited States. -
North Caolina
Nirth Carolina votes to ratify a new state consistution -
Fifteenth Admendment Ratified
Granted AA men the right to vote. -
Telephone is invented
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Compromise of 1877
end of reconstruction -
Electric light perfected
Thomas Edison, the inventor, created the first electric light -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate about equal. -
Wilmington Race Riot
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Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur wright built the worlds first successful airplane. -
Automoblie
Changes the face of America -
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States. -
Women gain right to vote
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Television
Broadcasting begins -
Motion Pictures
Motion pictures revolutionize entertainment.
