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The discovery of America by Columbus in 1492
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The settlement of Jamestown, witch was Americas first English colony.
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The French and Indian War was fought by British Americans on one side and New France on the other with American Indian allies.
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. they were fought on April 19, 1775 in Massachusetts.
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The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence was signed by the thirteen American colonies regarding themselves as independent states.
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The Battle of Yorktown was a decisive victory by the American army
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The Constitutional Convention was from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it was meant create a new government.
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The invention of the cotton gin was In 1794 by an inventor Eli Whitney, it speeded up cotton production.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were bills passed by the 5th United States Congress signed by President John Adams in 1798.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase made by the U.S. of 828,000 square miles of land owned by France.
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The War of 1812 was a war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Missouri Compromise was an effort by the continental congress to defuse the sectional and political views triggered by the request of Missouri to become a state in which slavery would be permitted.
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Andrew Jackson’s Election was the election of 1828.
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The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse and some other inventors in the 1830s.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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The Trail of Tears was in 1838 as part of president Andrew Jackson's removal policy.
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The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States of America and the United Mexican States lasting from 1846 to 1848
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The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt by Senator Henry Clay to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between the North and South.
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The Firing on Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Confederate States Army in April 12–13, 1861.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a proclamation issued
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States Assassination was on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse was fought on April 9, 1865 it was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments also know as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached On February 24, 1868 for high crimes and misdemeanours.
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust was Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refinery in the world of its time
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The invention of the telephone was in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
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Thomas Edison invented the electric light in 1880.
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes was because of a dispute that occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania.
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The Spanish-American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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Theodore Roosevelt become president on September 14, 1901
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On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first successful flights.
