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an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Niña.
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First successful English settlement on the mainland of North America
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Navigation Act of 1651 aimed primarily at the Dutch, required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels.
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An American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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First battle in which Washington defeats the French in a sneak attack
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King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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A new tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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An American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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A time where soldiers in red coats attacked and killed many civilians on the streets of Boston
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
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Congress approved the final text of the Declaration, and a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”
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Members of the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution
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1st president of the United States and a statesman and a soldier.
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An American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803.
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When Lewis and Clark explored the unknown territory, establish trade with the Natives and affirm the sovereignty of the United States in the region.
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Was in the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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11th quadrennial presidential election, held on a Friday to Tuesday
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When Andrew Jackson thought it was a good idea to remove the Indians to the West.
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American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States
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An attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
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A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.
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A decision for whether or not Dred Scott should be freed from being a slave.
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The nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States.
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Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth and
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An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.