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In the evening of August 3rd 1492 Columbus left Palos to Santa Marie, Nina and Pinta with 3 ships.
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the 1st permanent British settlement in North America
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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the treaty of Paris ended the war
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a deadly riot that occurred on King Street in Boston
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the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Continental Army who were led by General George Washington, won a decisive victory against the British
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The Constitution is signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
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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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Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States
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the Louisiana land deal was between the United States and France, the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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it was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States
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it was a sea/land battle fought between British invaders and American defenders.
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it was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution
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John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. and shot President Abraham Lincoln
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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."