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America was discovered by Christopher Columbus after he tried to find a new water route to India for the Spice Trade.
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The settlement of Jamestown was a settlement of British Protestants trying to escape religious persecution in England.
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The French and Indian war was the American portion of the seven years war. The seven years war was brought on by England against France, for settling on the continent of America.
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The Boston tea party was a protest on British tea taxes by dumping bags of tea into the harbor of Boston.
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These battles were the start of the conflict between England and the colonies of America, commonly called the Revolutionary war.
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The Declaration of Independence was America declaring its freedom from British rule.
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The Siege of Yorktown was a decisive battle for the Revolutionary war. It was fought from the American and French armies against the British army.
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The constitutional convention was a meeting of politicians to try and fix the current government, and it ended up creating the US Constitution.
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The Inventor of the Cotton Gin was Ely Whitney, and the cotton gin's purpose was to separate the cottons seeds from the cotton itself.
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These acts made it harder to vote as an immigrant, and gave the US new powers to deport foreigners.
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These acts made it harder to vote as an immigrant, and gave the US new powers to deport foreigners.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of 828 thousand square miles of land from France.
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The war of 1812 was fought against England because of the Trade Embargoes placed on the united states.
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The Missouri Compromise was a practice put in place by the US government. It says that any states north of the 36 degree meridian cannot practice slavery.
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Andrew Jackson was elected president first in 1829, running against John Quincy Adams. For his second term, he was running against Henry Clay
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The Indian removal act was an act that relocated tens of thousand of Indians from their lands to reservations. This is usually called "The Trail of Tears".
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The panic of 1837 was a financial crisis that put the US into a recession until the mid 1840s
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The Telegraph was invented in 1838, and quickly became the country's main way of communicating.
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The compromise of 1850 was a compromise between the pro- and anti-slavery states on the new territory gained in the Mexican-American war, and how it would be divided.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was a two day battle started on Fort Sumter started by the recently succeeded southern states, starting the Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential order by President Lincoln, that freed over three million slaves.
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The Reconstruction Amendments were three amendments passed between 1865 and 1870, trying to recoup the US after the devastating civil war.
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The surrender at Appomattox was an agreement between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee for Lee to surrender his army in Virginia.
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Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at fords theater, watching the play "Our American Cousin".
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Andrew Johnson was impeached on February 24th, after being accused of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Standard oil was founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller, his brother, and other influential people at the time.
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The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
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The Light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison.
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The Homestead and Pullman strikes were worker strikes that shut down big parts of the economy, especially the Pullman strikes. These were major events for labor unions.
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The Homestead and Pullman strikes were worker strikes that shut down big parts of the economy, especially the Pullman strikes. These were major events for labor unions.
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The Spanish-American war started when the USS Maine was sunk in Havana harbor, and democrats pushed republican president William McKinley to enter into a war he didn't want to.
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Theodore Roosevelt was appointed president after William McKinley was assassinated. He then ran for another term.
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The airplane was invented by the Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur)