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Columbus discovered what is now know as America today
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the James town settlement was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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The French and Indian War, was a war that went on in Europe from 1756 to 1763, and was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century
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The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest against the British for the Tea Act
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord are what started the open conflict between the thirteen colonists and British.
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The Battle of Yorktown was the last major engagement of the American Revolution
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It announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain
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delegates representing every state but Rhode Island, met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia secretly
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Eli Whitney created the cotton gin - a machine capable of removing the seeds from cotton fiber
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The The Alien and Sedition Acts restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country and limited freedom of speech and of the press.
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It was basically the purchase of the state Louisiana from France, by America
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The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights.
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The Missouri Compromise was pretty much Missouri saying that they wanted a Maine as a free state.
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The 1828 presidential election was one of the dirtiest ever
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Samuel Morse and other inventors revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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The Trail of Tears were series of forced relocation of Native American Peoples from their homeland.
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The Panic of 1837 was a situation involving an unstable currency and financial system resulting in a lack of confidence in both government and the banks.
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The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the US and mexico
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the US congress, which defused a four year political confrontation between slaves and free states.
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The Firing on Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust was formed in 1863 by John D. Rockefeller.
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It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General-in-Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army
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Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by John Booth while he was at the theater.
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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were made to prohibit slavery, to protect the civil rights of former slaves, and banned racial restriction on voting
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The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was a result of political conflict and the rupture of ideologies in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes was a work stoppage caused by employees who refuse to work.
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The Spanish-American War was fought between the US and Spain in 1898
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With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest President in the Nation’s history
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The creation of the light bulb is credited to Thomas Edison. Although many people helped with the creation of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell is normally the one credited for it. Orville and Wilbur Wright were the inventors of the first airplane.