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Christopher Columbus found what is now called the Bahamas.
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56 men signed the declaration of independance.
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A series of meetings to create a new government instead of fixing the old one. 25 May-September 17, 1787
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General George Washington and troops surround the british troops, and fire at the 24/7 for three days till they surrender on October 19, 1781.
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General Washington and troops bombarded General Cornwalis day and night, then Cornwallis surrendered.
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A michanical cotton gin was invented in the U.S., by Eli Whitney.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts gave John Adams the power to strip people of the right to publish scandalous or mean spirited papers.
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America purchases a vast amount of land from the french.
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Missouri becomes a slave state.
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Andrew Jackson gets elected to be 7th president.
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A major financial crisis that lasted till the 1840's.
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As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Project, the natives were driven out of their native lands, 4,ooo out of about 15,000 dying on the way to Oklahoma.
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The Invention of the telegraph by Samuel Morse, who also invented morse code. 1830-1840 First telegram sent May 24th, 1844.
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The Mexican-American War was the war that freed Texas from Mexico, and joined the United States. The 13 of May was when Congress declared war, but Mexico attacked a group of U.S. soldiers on April 25th, 1846. 1846- 1848
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A man, Clay, put a comprise in congress to avoid war between the North and South, and abolish slave trade in Washington D.C.
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The firing on Fort Sumter was a bombardment by the Confederate army, in South Carolina, on the Union soldiers, who were stationed at the fort, that started the Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was the document that freed the slaves in America from their masters.
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The battle of the Appomattox Courthouse was the last official battle of the civil war.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination occured at the Ford's Theatre, when he was shot through the ear by John Wilkes Booth.
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The 13th Amendment was the amendment to resolve slavery on a national level, expecially in the former slave states.
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President Andrew johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives.
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The 14th Amendment granted everyone citizenship, who was born, a previous slave, or a naturalized in the United States, equal protection.
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust was John Rockefeller's American industrial oil empire. (I could only find a year for this event.)
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The 15th Amendment prevented people from denying people on voting regardless of race, color, or servitude.
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Alexander Graham bell invented the telephone, then got in a massive patent battle, because other people were claiming to have invented it first.
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Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb. (I couldn't find the exact date, just year.)
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A industrial argument inbetween the Homestead Steel Works, Carnegie Steel Company, and the security. It got so bad that the military had to step in and quiet the storm.
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The Spanish-American War was a war that ended with the United States getting the territories in the pacific.
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Theodore Roosevelt was elected as the 26th president after President McKinley got assasinated.
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The Wright brothers invented the first airplane .
