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Columbus, looking for Asia, lands in America, and claims it for Spain.
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From Columbus discovering America to WWI
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The first permanent English establishment is founded.
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This long war was caused when Americans and the French attacked against the British.
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Americans, dressed up like Indians and stormed the British harbor, dumping tea into the bay.
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British troops marched to Concord to destroy the rebel military supplies but the rebels hid the supplies and fought back.
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This very important document marked America's separation from Britain and was signed by many great people.
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This siege of a British base by the Americans ended wars between Britain and America and at this point America was officially recognized as an independent country..
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This convention was a meeting between many important early Americans to discuss and create the United States Constitution
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The cotton gin was a machine that helped clean cotton and was patented on this day
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This day is when the first of four bills were passed that adjusted the laws where immigrants are involved.
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In this time span, the light bulb, telephone, and airplane was invented
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The U.S. bought the Louisiana Territory from France.
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During to the war, Britain made an order where the U.S. had to obtain a license from British authorities to be able to trade with France.
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At this time President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise which allowed Missouri to be a slave state.
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On this day Andrew Jackson was elected officially to office.
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This time period caused a huge deflation in wages and in prices
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The Trail of Tears was a movement initiated by Andrew Jackson where the American Indians were forced to move west.
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The first patent for the telegraph is passed
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This war was caused by Mexico and America wanting the same land.
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This idea was presented by Henry Clay to the Senate on this date.
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This event took place at Fort Sumpter, and basically started the Civil War.
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This speech declared that every slave within the fighting states would be freed.
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These amendments to the Constitution all involved slavery and basically abolished slavery
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The Confederates were surrounded by Union troops in the city of Appomattox Courthouse and they were forced to surrender
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At the the Ford Theater, watching the play Our American Cousin, actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached because he dismissed Edwin Stanton without the Senate's approval which wasn't allowed as stated in the Tenure of Office Act.
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The largest oil refinery in the world at the time was being organized.
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Many Pullman and Homestead workers went on strike after working for next to nothing and being treated poorly.
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America demanded the surrender of Cuba from Spain but when Spain refused, it started a war.
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President McKinley, the President, was shot and killed. Theodore Roosevelt immediately inherited the White House and became President.
