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On august 3rd Columbus and his crew set off to search for new land. On October 12, they found land, but not where they thought.
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Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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France tried moving onto the Ohio river. Britain said no. The war didn't end until 1763
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The new American people were getting unfairly taxed, so they threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor.
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The battle of Lexington and Concord began the revolutionary war. This is when Paul Revere came in.
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The Declaration of Independence stated that the 13 colonies were an independent nation.
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George Washington lead an army of French and American soldiers to fight against the British. The British surrendered. The American's won their independence. The revolutionary war was over.
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realizing they had no king to look after them, they needed a sturdy government, as the one they had was not working. And was born the US constitution.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which made the harvesting of cotton go much faster.
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The alien and Sedition acts were laws that made it harder to become a US citizen.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land treaty that America and France made because America wanted the land, and France needed the money, so it worked out.
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the British tried to stop the trade going into America, and the trade going into France, and basically Britain was being a jerk.
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People wanted Missouri to be a slave state, but having the states equally balanced between slave/free, making Missouri a slave state would upset more than just the balance. so they had to switch everything up so Missouri could be a slave state.
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It was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, Jackson won by an incredible amount.
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Andrew Jackson wanted to expand his territory, so he made the Native Americans sign a treaty giving their land to him. Because of this all of the tribes in that territory were forced to relocate.
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Kinda like the great depression of 1837, unemployment went up, wages went down.
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, a machine used to convey messages to far off places using an arrangement of dots and slashes. We call this Morse code.
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Texas was free from Mexico's rule, but America wanted it, Mexico didn't want them to have it.
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in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. (https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html)
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