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Roanoke island off North Carolina coast settles found to have vanished
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The first permanent English settlement in new world Jamestown
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the first representative assembaly in the new world
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The Mayflower Compact signed november 11, 1620 to form a self-goverment.
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Rodger Williams founded Providence in the June of 1636
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British parliment passed the first navigation acts on December 1,1660
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Indians made payments for PENNSYLVANIA lands
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people get exicuted for suspicion of witchcraft
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Benjamin Franklin published the First Poor Richards
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Editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of lible Aug. 5
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A conflict in North America that was apart of a worldwide struggle between france and Britain. Britain defeated france and gained French Canada
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A tax was put on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. Also called for harsh punishment of smugglers
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Required legal and comercial documents to have an official stampshowing tax had been payed Quartering act: A law passed in 1765 that required colonies to house and supply british soldiers
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A series of laws passed by Parliment in 1767 that suspended NY assembaly and estaablished taxes on goods braught in to British Colonies.
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British troops opened fire on a mob and killed 5 people
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The dumping of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protect the tea act
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-Intollerable acts: a series of laws inacted by Parliment in 1774 to punish Mass. colonists for the Boston Tea Party First Continental Congress: A meeting of delegates in 1774 from all of the colonies exept fot Goregia to uphold colonial rights
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-Lexington and Concord: First battles of the revolution
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written in 1776 by Thomas Paine. Helped convince many americans that a complete breack with britain was nessesary DECLORATION OF INDEPENDANCE
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Adopted by the continental congress in 1777 and finally approved my the states in 1781 it outlined the for of goverment in the NEW U.S SARATOGA: The last MAJOR turning point in the revolution
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John Paul Jones in sea battle
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Cornwallis retreated to yorktown
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Britain Peace treaty
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Described how the northwest terratory would be governed, and set settlers rights Constitutional convention: a meeting to concider changes to the articles of confederation. It resulted in the drafting ot the Constitution
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A ganeral in the Continental army
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The Bill of Rights was the forst 10 amendments to the U.S constitution, added in 1791, listing citizen rights and freedoms
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Eli whitney invented the cotton gen to revive slavery in the south in 1793
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Warned against permanent alliances with foreign powers
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The Lusiana purchace doubled the size of the U.S
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Lewis and Clark ordered to explore the Northwest of the U.S
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Robert Fulton and the invention of the Steamboat
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the war of 1812 had 3 maine causes:
-Britain seized U.s ships
-Britain seized 4,000 u.s sailors
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The Star Spangledbanner became the National Anthem in 1931
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Allowed slavery in missouri but not westy of the Mississippi river
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America was closed to further colonization and the U.S was to stay out of European affairs per President Monroe
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The Charokee Indiand were forced out of their land and had walk form Goregia to Oklahome and many died on the journey
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The belief that the U.S would streach across to the ocean
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Lucretia Mott, and and Elizabeth Cady Stantonled the womens rights convention
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Harriet Becher Stowe published Uncle Cabin
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Aberham lincon was elected prestdent
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Confedorate states of america are set up with Jefferson Davis as the president
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a civil war battle in1862 in wich 25,000 men were killed or wounded
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-President Lincon issues Emancipation proclomation
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-General E Lee surrendered
-President Lincol was shot (April 14)
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Providing citizendhip to people born or nationalized in the U.S
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Making Race no bar to voting rights, ratified feb. 8
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross on May 21
