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Columbus made 4 trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain, he was determine to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, instead, he stumbled upon the Americas.
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The journey to Virgina began on 3 ships the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, the Discovery. Jamestown was America's first permanent English Colony in Virgina.
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The bloodiest American war in the 18th century, it took more lives than the American Revolution. The British to settle in the Ohio River Valley and traded with the Native Americans who lived there. George Washington led on the Army against the French.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. The goal of this protest was to protest British Parliament's tax tea.
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when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
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George Washington commanded a force of 17000 French and Continental troops
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Convention of delegates from all states except Rhode Island known as the meeting where they decide the best solution for the county's problems.
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Ellie Whitney invented the cotton gin the machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of remloving seeds from cotton fiber.
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signed into law by President John Adams consisted of four laws by the Federalists controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France.
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Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory by the US from France U.S. paid 5 million.
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Great Britain has locked in a long and bitter conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte n an attempt to cut off supplies a block sides attempted blocking the US from trading with others.
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act of Congress Missouri was admitted as a slave state
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John D Rockefeller created Standard Oil trust by trading stock holders shares for trust certificates. The trust was designed to allow Rockefeller and other standard oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another.
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The rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson led to Andrew winning the Electoral College vote.
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph the Telegraph revolutionize long-distance communication is transmitted electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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A financial crisis in the US that touched off a major recession that lasted untill the mid 1840's
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Was a series of forced removals of Native American nation from their ancestral homelands in the southern Eastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.
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The United States and Mexico war started with u.s. annexation of Texas and was if the result of disagreement over where the border should be.
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The attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South Slave Act was amended in the slave trade in Washington dc was abolished.
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The bombardment of the Fort Sumter near Charleston South Carolina by the Confederate states army.
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Was a presidential Proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
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General Robert E Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General S Grant's one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the US assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre.
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Known collectively as the Civil War amendments were designed to ensure quality for recently emancipated slaves.
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After 3 days Johnson dismissal of Staton the House of Representative voted 126 to 47 in favor of impeachment due to high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Thomas Edson invented the electric light, the Wright Brother invented the airplane, Alexander Bell invented the telephone.
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the dispute occurred at the Homestead steel works in the town of Homestead Pennsylvania between Amalgamated Association of iron and steel workers and Carnegie steel company.
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United states declared war on Spanish following the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of France.
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Roosevelt served as an assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt
later became president after McKinley's death.