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Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia.
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Jamestown is a city in Virginia
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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France
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British soldiers shot and killed people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting
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The siege of Yorktown also known as the surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the siege of Little York.
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39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, representing 12 states, endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention.
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The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797.
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The cotton gin is a machine that is used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
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British forces marched on Washington, defeated U.S. forces, and burned the Capitol.
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The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege.
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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.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a stage actor John Wilkes Booth