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The American people made laws to help make the country better and fair.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.
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British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York.
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Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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The constitutional convention was to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.
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The bill of rights was proposed to Congress.
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Three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
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The cotton gin had been become a patent on this day.
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Lewis and Clark journey was to go coast to coast looking for new territory out west. They discovered new plants and animals and were able to create relations with native indians along the way.
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The first textile mill was first open and ready for workers to come work. This was in Lowell,Massachusetts.
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Trail of Tears is when the american government removed the indians from "our land" so that we could move out west.
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Eyewitness to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill - 1848. Just forty-six (46) years ago to-day the great and memorable discovery of the California gold was made at Capt. John A. Sutter and James W. Marshall's sawmill, on American Fork River, California.
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The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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The first battle of the civil war.
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The most important and largest battle of the union and nonunion civil war.
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It was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
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The financial and industrial slump of 1929-1939 casued by the wall street market to crashed.
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The first manned moon launch sending humans to the moon for the first time.
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Osama Binlandin planned a attack on the twin towers, a US airplane, world trade station, and Pentagon. To kill thousands of Americans.
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The day I was born.
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Barack Obama was elected president and was sworn in on this date.