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This is when Columbus discovered America.
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One day in 1607, 104 men arrived in North America, and chose Jamestown for their settlement.
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England and France both thought they owned Ohio land, the French destroyed some of England's forts and the whole thing just went downhill from there.
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England was asking for ridiculous prices and even making things like tea, sugar, and stamps super expensive. So a lot of men and boys from the colonies through the tea into the ocean causing England to lose lots of money.
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The shot heard round the world.
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Yay America! The colonies pretty much broke up with England and King George the third (their tyrannical ruler) and started their own country and government.
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The end of the British's tyrannical reign (Yay America!)
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After a lot of hard work, the constitution was born (Yay government!)
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Eli Whitney found a way to remove cotton seeds way faster than they had been doing it, and he had a lot of enslaved laborers work on the cotton farm, even though many Americans believed in the abolishment of slavery at this time (Boo slavery Yay equality!)
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America had real potential and was making so much progress, then came the alien and sedition acts of 1798. Basically the president (John Adams) created a law that said it was okay to deport foreigners and made it harder for them to vote (Boo John Adams, Yay equality!)
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The United States bought a large amount of land from France for over 15 million dollars.
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The United States went to war against England (wow how original).
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A law that said that Missouri was a slave state, and Maine was a free state. There was also some territory involved.
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Andrew Jackson was the new president.
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Five Cherokee tribes were forced to leave their home, it took a little over two decades.
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Banks in New York ran out of gold and silver and that caused a HUGE economic crash.
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The telegraph was invented during the 1830's and 1840's the first message was sent May 24, 1844 and it was: "What hath god wrought."
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Mexico and America had a big fight over who really owned Texas, they eventually came to an agreement after about two years of fighting.
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Aftermath to the Mexican-American war. An act to suppress slave trade in Columbia, and an act for California to be admitted into the union.
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One of the events that led to the civil war.
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Yay! Equality! Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery! Let's go America!
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The Standard Oil Trust was formed by, John D. Rockefeller it became the largest in the world.
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The 13th amendment was passed January 31, 1865. The 14th amendment was passed June 8, 1866. The 15th amendment was passed February 2nd, 1869.
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Yay! The end of the civil war!
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The death of Abraham Lincoln.
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For high crimes and misdemeanor Andrew Johnson was impeached.
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While other phones had been invented, it was Alexander Graham Bell who won the first U.S. patent for it.
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Even though electric light bulbs were created in the 1800's they didn't start getting popular until 1925.
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Workers were unhappy, and it was a bad economical time for the United States.
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The Cuban war of dependence.
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Teddy Roosevelt became the President.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully made the first airplane.