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Walter Raleigh founded Roanoke Island. Roanoke island was by the coast of North Carolina. The settlers vanished in 1590.
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John Smith founded Jamestown. This colony was the first Englist permanent settlement.
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The House of Burgesses was the first represantive assemembly in the new land. This took place in Jamestown, Virginia.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed and it was an agreement to put forth self government. This allowed the Pigrims to settle in the New World.
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Roger Williams discovered Providence, Rhode Island. The Charter was granted in 1644. Also Harvard College was founded.
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Parliament passed the first Navigation Act. The acts were originally aimed at the dutch for making profit from England.
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Nathaniel Bacon led planters and burned Jamestown Virginia. The followers that survived the rebellion were later executed.
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He made the payment for Pensylvania lands. He also sighned treaty with Delaware Indiands.
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20 witches were executed by the special court.
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Ben Franklin published the first almanack. It was called Poor richard's Almanack.
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He was acquitted of libel for criticizing the British govenor.
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This speech was givin in Enfield, MA by Jonathan Edwards. He was a believer in the Great Awakening.
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The French and Indian war began when the French occupied Ft. Duquesnc.
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This act placed a tax on sugar.
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This act placed a tax on stamps for the mail. Also, the quartering act was passed which required colonists to house British troops.
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This act placed a tax on lead, paper, glass and tea. Many people rebelled this act.
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British troops shot and killed 5 people in a Boston Mob.
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People snuck onto the East India Co. tea ships and threw cargo overboard.
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A series of laws the people of the country thought were "intolerable."
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Paul Revere and William Dawes rode and alerted the Patriots that the British were coming. This was the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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The Declaration of Independance was approved. Also Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense which convinced people that the United States needed a break from Britain.
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the continental congress and they took affeft March 1st 1781
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He defeated Serapis when he was on the Bonhomme
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The Bank of North America was made. Lord Cornwallis also surrendered on October 19.
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The Paris Peace Treaty was signed and and it recognized American independence.
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The Northwest Ordinance was adopted by Continentel Congress. It guarenteed freedome of religion support for schools amd no slavery.
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George Washington was elected president and John Adams's vice president.
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The Bill of Rights were submitted.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which helped slavery out.
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The Western farmers protested the Whiskey Act.
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The Federalists passed a law that silenced political opposition.
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He was named the Supreme Court chief justice.
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They explored the unkown territorry in the west which is now know was the western part of the United States.
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It banned trading with all foreign countries .
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The War of 1812 begun. Britain attacked the US ships that were trading with France.
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He defeated the British a the Battle of Lake Erie.
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Britian troops attacked and burned the Capitol and the white house. Francis Scott Key got the lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner from this.
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Spain gave florida their land.
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European nations could no longer colonize in the United States territorry.
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Daniel Webster and Robery Hayne had a debate about nullifying the federal law.
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He led a slave rebellion and 57 whites killed. The ones that survived were executed.
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Andrew Jackson forced Native Americans off of their land which became known as the trail of tears.
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The first message of the telegraph line was sent and the inventor was Samuel F.B. Morse.
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The Mexican War began this year. This was a big step to Manifest Destiny.
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Elizebeth Cady Stanton held the Womens Rights convention. Also gold was discovered.
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California was admitted as a state.
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A book publishee by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed how harshe slavery was.
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The Republican Party was fromed wihich oppesed the Kansas Nebraska Act.
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This decision stated that slaves did not become free in free states.
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John Brown tried to start a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry but no slaves joined in and they got killed by the marines.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president.
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The Confederacy succeded from the Union because of the election of Abraham Lincoln. This started the Civil War.
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The Battle of Antietam took place and it was the bloodiest battle.
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The Emancipation Proclamtion was passed and it stated that having slaves were illegal.
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The Civil War ended.
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The 14th amendment was passed which stated that all people born or naturalized in the us were citizens,
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Everyone could vote no matter what their race was.
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Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
