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Sep 27, 1488
Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus lands in the New World
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Sep 27, 1498
Da Gama sails to India by way of Africa
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Magellan's fleet sails around the world
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Founding of Jamestown
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Pilgrims come to the New World
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Great Migration of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay
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England conquers New Netherland
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Salem Witch Trials
These trials began in Salem due to a couple of teenage girls, who claimed that a town witch had cursed them. This stirred up paranoia and hysteria, and in the frenzy to find and execute the witches, an unknown number of innocent people were put to death, despite the fact that there was no real evidence against them. -
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The Great Awakening
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The French and Indian War
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The Stamp Act
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The Townshend Acts
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The Boston Massacre
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The Intolerable Acts
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The American Revolution
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The Declaration of Independance
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The Treaty of Paris
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Constitution adopted by the convention
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Bill of Rights adopted
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Second Great Awakening
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Louisiana Purchase
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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War of 1812
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Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine proclaimed
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Tariffs of Abominations
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Texas Independence
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Annexation of Texas
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Oregon Controversy settled
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Mexican War
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California gold rush
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Compromise of 1850
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Prayer Meeting Revival
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Dred Scott Decision
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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Election of Abraham Lincoln; South Carolina secedes
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The Civil War
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Firing on Fort Sumter
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Emancipation Proclamation takes effect
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Military Reconstruction Act
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Compromise Act of 1877
