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Granted rights to both Nobles and Freemen.
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The Lost Colony, sponsered by Sir Walter Raleigh, found on Roanoke island off the caost of North Carolina.
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John Smith and 105 cavaliers sarted the frst permanent English settlement in the New World At Jmestown
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The first represnetative assemblynin the New World at Jmestown Virginia. Indentured servants in North American colonies brought by the Dutch to Jamestown
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The Mayflower Compact was an idea to form a self government and was signed by the men abaord the Mayflower.
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Providence, RI was foundedby Roger Williams and was demcratically ruled with a seperation of church and state.
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The British Parliment passed the Navigation act regulating commerce in the colony.
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The Indian War ended and King Phillip, Wampanog chief, and Narragansett indians were killed.
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Nathanial Bacon led planters to burn Jamestown. When the plan collapsed and Bacon died, 23 of his folloers were executed.
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William penn signed a treaty with the Delaware Indians and payed for the Pennsylvannia land.
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20 alleged witches were accused of Witchcraft and executuedy a special court.
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The first Poor Richard's Almanack is published by Benjamin Franklin.
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Editor John Peter Zenger was cleared of his criminal charge of criticizing the british governor.
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The Famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God', was given in Enfieild, MA by Jonathan Edwards, a major revivalist in the Great Awakening.
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French and Indian War Begins as France occupies Ft. Duquesnc.
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Delagates from the 7 colonies approved the Albany plan of Unioon by Benjamin Franklin
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The Sugar act is passsed placing taxes on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.
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The Stamp act is passed by parliamen requiring all legal and commercial documents to have an official stamp showing that a tax has been paid.
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The Quartering Act is passed forcing colonists to house british troops.
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The Townshend Acts were passed to suspend New York's assebly until the agreed to provide housing for the troops, and to place taxes on various goods brought into the colonies.
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British Troops fired into a Boston mob killing five people. Among those people was Crispus Attucks, leader of the mob.
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Men disguised as Native Americans boarded three ships and destroyed 342 chests of tea to protest the tax on tea.
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The Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament barrring the use of the Boston Harbor until the destroyed tea was paid for.
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The First Continental Congress was held in Philadalphia and called for civial disobediance against the British
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Patrick Henry addressed the Virginia convention "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
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Paul Revere rode to alert patriots of the coming of the British to Concord to destroy arms.
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Ethan Allen captured Ft. Ticonderoga and colonials headed for Bunker Hill.
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Continental Congress named George Washington commander in chief.
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The famous pro independence pamphlet Commmon Sense, was published by Thomas Paine. It siad that a complete break from Britain was neccesary.
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A series of battles between British and U.S. soldiers and was a turning point in the war.
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The Articles of Confederation, a document that outline the plan of government for the ne United States, was approved by the Continental congress and by the states.
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Captain John Paul Jones defeated Serapis in British North Sea waters.
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The Siege of Cornwallis began.
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General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
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Britain and U.S. sign a peace treaty recognizing american independence.
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An uprising of farmers broke out in west Massachusettes.
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The Constitutional Convention opened in Philidalphia with George Washington as it's president. It accepted many delagates and New Jersey was the first to ratify.
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It was an land angreement adopted by the Continental Congress that created the Northwest Territory enabling the U.S. to expand.
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The First Congress met at federal hall and declared the Constituition in effect.
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George Washington is inagurated. John Adams coming in second, became vice president.
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The U.S. State Department is formed by congress. It chose Thomas Jefforson to be installed as secretary of state, Hery Knox to be secretary of war, and Alexander Hamilton as secretary of treasury.
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The Supreme Court is established by th Federal Judiciary Act.
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The Bill of rights was submitted to the states and went into effect.
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George Washington is inagurated for his second term. John Adams coming in second becomes vice president.
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Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin, a machine for cleaning cotton, reviving slavery in the south.
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Washington declares that the U.S. is remaining neutral in the war between France and Britain.
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Pennsylvannia farmers protested the tax on liquor.
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John Jay signed a treaty with Britain that was to settle long-lasting diffrences between the U.S. and Britain.
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Washington deliver's a his farewelll address at the end of his second term warning against permanent alliances with foreign powers, public debt, and military establishment.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts are passd to silence ploitcal opposition.
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Joh Marshall was chosen as the Supreme Court chief justice.
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Thomas Jeffrerson won the election of 1800 over Aaron Burr. Jefferson and Burr had the same number of electoral votes, but Jefferson had the House vote. Jefforson was named president and Burr was vice president.
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The Supreme court overturned a law for the first time in the case of Marbury v. Madison. It said that the Supreme court has the final say in enterpeting the law. This case also established the idea of judicial review.
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Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea explored the Louisianna Territory for preident Thomas Jefforson. The expedition ended on September 23, 1806.
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Vice President Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel and Hamilton died the next day.
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Robert Fultonmade the first steamboat ride form New York City, New York, to Albany, New York, 150 miles away in 32 hours.
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Congress declared war between Birtain U.S. caused by disagreenments over the Canadian border and brought great economic changes to the U.S.
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Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a fleet of british troops and the U.S. won the battle of Thames on October 15.
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The american steambaot Savannah made the first part-steam-powered, part-sail across the Atlantic ocean. Spain gives up Florida to the U.S. on Febuary 22.
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Named after President James Monroe, was a policy declaring opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
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Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne debated over the Doctrine of Nullification.
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Presiednt Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act calling for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west.
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William Lloyd Garison began the Abolitionist Newspaper.
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A slave in Virginia, Nat Turner, led a slave rebellion and killed 57 whites. White Troops were called in and 100 slaves were killed. Turner was catpured, tried, and hanged.
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The Journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Gergia, to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Thousadnds of Chreokees died.
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The first message was sent by Telegraph line by Samuel F. Morse, an inventor. The telegraph was sent from Washington to Baltimore
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The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo was signed ending the war with Mexico.
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The Mexican War begins after President James K. Polk ordered Genereal Zachary Taylor to sieze land settled by Mexicans. After the clash at the border, War was declared.
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Americans rebelled against against Mexican rule in California.
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Expansionists claimed that the U.S. should stretch from sea to shining sea. They also used the term Manifest Destiny.
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Gold was discovered in California causing about 80,000 prospectors to emigrate.
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Congressional laws were passed settling major disagreements betweeen free and slave states.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. The book portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.
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The Republican Party was formed by opponents of slavery. The Party opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which left the issue of slavery to the vote of settlers.
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A slave Dred Scott sued fro his Freedom because his owner had taken him to a territory were slavery was illegal. Chief Justice Rojer B. Taney ruled against Scott saying thta he was not a U.S. citizen, therefore, he could not sue in U.S. courts.
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Extreme abolitionist John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom and with 21 men, seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Brown's and his men were captured and killed. Brown was hanged for treason.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president in a 4-way race.
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The Confederate states of America were formed from seven souther states with Jefforson Davis as presiedent.
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Confederates repelled Union forces at the first Battle of Bull Run.
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An act that granted free farrms to settlers.
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An act that provided public land sale to benifit agriculural education. which eventually led led to the establishment of state university systems.
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The bloodiest one-day battle of the war where each side lost over 2,000 men.
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Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order freeing slaves in all regions in rebellion against the union.
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The Union defeated the Confederacy at Gettysburg.
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Confederate states under siege surrendered Vicksburg to Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant.
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President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
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The town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War.
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President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth in Fords Theatre. Vice President Andrew Johnson ws then sworn in as president.
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The 13th amendment, abolishing slavery was ratified.
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President Andrew Johnson tried to remove secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton and was impeached by the House for a violattion of Tensure Office Act.
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The 15th amendment making no race bar to voting rights, was ratified.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Preident James A. Garfield was shot in Washington D.C. and died September 19.
