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Columbus sailing to America
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The British settled Jamestown, Virginia
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The French and Indian war began is 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris
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British soldiers shot and killed many people while being harasses by a mob in Boston
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The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War
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A document passes to announce and explain separation from Great Britain
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A decisive victory by combined American troops during the Revolutionary War
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39 delegates to the constitution convention, representing 12 states, endorsed the constitution created during the four month long convention
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A machine invented to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed.
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When George Washington was announced or inaugurated as president of the United States of America
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A deal between the Unites States and France, in which the Unites States acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land
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The first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States
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British forces attacked Washington, defeated U.S forces, and burned the capitol. This attack also inspired the the National Anthem
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The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar, killing the Texan and immigrant occupiers.
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Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
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The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.