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Christopher Columbus sets sail in the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria in an attempt to find an alternate route to Asia. He instead unknowingly lands in America, on one of the Bahamian Islands.
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The first successful English settlement is founded in Virginia.
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The French--settled in Canada--and the Indians that they had allied with, war with the English--settled along the coast of America.
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The Sons of Liberty protest against English government by dumping pounds of taxed tea into the ocean.
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The first conflict of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Declaration of Independence is signed.
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Last major land battle of the Revolution begins, Lasted from September 28 til October 19
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The Convention lasted from May 28 to September 17, and resulted in the creation of the United States Constitution.
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These acts made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen.
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the Cotton gin is a machine made to quickly separate cotton from their seeds, and was created by Eli Whitney. Created in 1793 (ignore the month and day date)
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A land deal between the French and the United States. (Ignore the day and month dates)
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A war between the US and the UN. Lasted from June 18, 1812 to February 18, 1815.
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An effort by Congress to stop arguments within the state of Missouri when they admissioned to be a state in which slavery is allowed. (Ignore the day and month date)
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Election held from October 31 to December 2, 1828
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A financial crisis in which profits and wages went down and unimplemented went up. It lasted until the 1840s. (Ignore the day and month dates)
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Between the years of 1830 to 1850, Indian tribes were forced to move from their homelands and relocate to the Mississippi river. (Ignore the day and month dates)
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Created by Samual Morse and other inventors in the 1830s and 1840s (Ignore the day and month dates)
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A conflict between Mexico and the US after the annexation of Texas into American territory. Mexico considered Texas part of their territory. (Ignore day and month dates)
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Five bills passed that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states arguing about the status of territories gained after the Mexican American War. (Ignore day date)
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The attack on Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, started the Civil War.
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This Proclamation, issued by president Lincoln, declared that all people held as slaves were free.
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The last battle of the Civil war is fought before General Robert E Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant.
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President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theater.
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Adopted between the years of 1865 and 1870. These amendments were created to ensure freedom and equality for the freed slaves. (ignore day and month dates.)
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Andrew Johnson becomes the first president to be impeached.
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An American oil producing company is founded. (Ignore day and month dates)
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The telephone, like the lightbulb, was an effort of many inventors, but only a few managed to create commercially successful models. The inventors include Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Watson. Alexander Bell is most commonly credited for the invention of the first practical telephone. Which he tested on the above date.
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Thomas Edison, although he was certainly not the first to have played with and create incandescent light, was the first to create a practical one that could be used and had a longer life then any previous models. The date for this event is when he first successfully tested it.
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An industrial strike, one of the more important and serious arguments in labor history. More, less experienced and less skilled workers were hired, angering the workers who had worked hard to gain skill.
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A war fought between Spain and the US (Ignore day and month dates)
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt is elected president.
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The Wright brothers are credited as the first to invent and fly the first airplane.
