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On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Niña. On October 12, the expedition sighted land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas, and went ashore the same day, claiming it for Spain.
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On May 13 of 1607, 104 English men and boys chose to settle Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown became the first permanent settlement in North America.
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The French kept expanding in North America, and that was interfering with the development of some British colonies. (The Indians were allies of the French.) The British won.
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The Boston Tea Party was political protest. We (the Americans) were sick of the British controlling us and taxing everything. So we destroyed a whole ship of tea.
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The first military engagements in the American Revolutionary War between the U.S. colonies and the British.
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A declaration signed by fifty-six state delegates stating that the 13 colonies were no longer under the control of Britain.
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This is the war that ended the American Revolutionary war. Washington defeated Cornwallis. It lasted from the 28th of September to the 19th of October 1781.
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This is where delegates from 5 states came together to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
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Eli Whitney created a faster way of seeding cotton. The Cotton Gin really started the industrial revolution. It was patented on March 14th, 1794.
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Aliens (foreigners) had to declare their intent to become a U.S. citizen 5 years before that could be granted. It also made it impossible for aliens from enemy countries to become a U.S. citizen at all. The first of these acts was signed on June 18th of 1798. These acts were passed under John Adams.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the French and the U.S. consisting of approximately 827,000 square miles of land. It was sold to America for $15 million.
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In The War of 1812 the U.S. took on the greatest naval power in the world- the British. The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 18, 1812, to February 18, 1815.
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http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph
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Andrew Jackson ordered thousands of Native Americans to walk thousands of miles to a designated land just for Indians. This began sometime in 1830.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time. Started escalating in 1837. -
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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1804.html
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The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history.
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The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.
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