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Spanish rulers gave columbus money to carry out his plan to the americans
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believed english chruches needed reformation
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disease spread quickly such as smallpox
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A group of English settlers founded Jamestown, Virginia. It was the first permanent English colony in the Americas
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There were 13 Bristish colonies, the colonies prospered.
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The french and British colonists clashed. The french and Indian war then started.
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The war ended with french defeat. France surrended most of its Northern land to the British
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British soldier fired on a mob of people and killed several colonists.
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Colonists wanted to destroy tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships then threw the tea into the harbor.
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Colonists and British soldiers fought at lexington and concord.
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The congress adopted the Decleration of Indeoendace declaring the colonies independant
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The flag was approved by congress in 1777 after Betsy Ross created the design in 1776
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The two sides engaged in peace talks. The treaty of Paris was signed and it recognized the United States as a nation.
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The required number of states approved the first ten amendments known as the bill of rights.
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Andrew Jackson became presidant His presidantal style made him very popular with people.
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Female reformers met in New York at the Seneca Falls Convention. They approved a statement that demanded equal rights for woman.
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The civil war began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, which was a union fort in Charleston
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The National Labor Union formed and persuaded the government to adopt 8 hour days in governmant office
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Thomas Edison established a research lab, the telephone was also invented.
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The dawes act of 1887 tried to force the assimilaton of Native Americans into white culture.
