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Colonial America
List of colonies: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Marlyland, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire,North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia
Date founded: 1607
Independence: July 04 1776 -
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French-Indian War
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American Revolution
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Declaration of Independence
Author: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston 3 rights listed: Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Purpose: to announce and explain seperation from Great Britian -
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Constitutional Convention
What Happened: delegates from five states called for a constitutional convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation
Oldest Member: Benjamin Franklin -
Louisiana Purchase
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Women's Rights Movement
Leaders: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster, Sojourner Truth
What they wanted: Women rights -
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Civil War
President: Abraham Lincoln
Reasons: Slavery -
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Emancipation Proclamation
What did it do: The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Spanish-American War
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World War I
President: Woodrow Wilson -
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Great Depression
President: Franklin Roosevelt -
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World War II
Combatans: Axi Alliance (Germany,Italy, Japan,Hungary,Romania and bulgaria)
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Generals: Theodore Roosevelt -
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Cold War
Main concern: the Soviet Union would obtain control of the Western European countries through either invasions or by communist takeovers of unstable governments -
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Civil Rights Movement
Leaders: Martin Luther King Jr. , Rosa Parks
Purpose: end rascial discrimination -
9/11
al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States
