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In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to discover America.
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Jamestown was the first successful English settlement in North America.
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Part of the Seven Years War, the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763) was fought between British America and New France. It was a dispute over control of Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act of May 10,1773. They threw tea into the Boston Harbor, ruining it, causing the government to respond harshly; this began the American Revolution.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concordwere the first battles of the American Revolution. They took place in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
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The Declaration of Independence was adapted by the Continental Congress to announce the independence of the thirteen American colonies. It was made by Thomas Jefferson and edited by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.
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The Battle of Yorktown (September 28 – October 19, 1781) was the last major battle in the American Revolution; the American Continental troops and French troops defeated the British army, causing Great Britain to negotiate and end the war.
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The Constitutional Convention (May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a convention intended to fix the Articles of Confederation from the British government. Instead, a new constitution was created: the United States Constitution.
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The cotton gin quickly seperates cotton fibers from their seeds.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalists in the U.S. Congress. These were made to strengthen the national security, yet some believe they were made to supress non-Federalists.
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The Louisiana Purchase wqas the aquisition of Lousiana territory from France in 1803. The land total is 828,000 square miles for a cost of $3,750,000.
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The War of 1812 (June 18, 1812 – February 18, 1815) was fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies. It was fought over trade restrictions, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of Indian tribes against American expansion, and insults towards America.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 regulated slave trade, prohibiting it in the former Lousiana territory, except for Missouri.
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Andrew Jackson’s Election took place October 31 – December 2, 1828, between Andrew Jackson and John Q. Adams.
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The invention of the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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The Panic of 1837 was a U.S. financial crisis that lasted until the mid 1840's.
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The Trail of Tears was part of Jackson's Indian removal policy. The Cherokee Nation was forced to give up their land east of the Mississippi River. This is known as the Trail of Tears.
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The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of attenmpts to settle the dispute between the North and the South. The Fugitive Slave Act banned the trade of slaves.
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On April 12, 1861, the Confederate Forces opened fire on the Union troops at Fort Sumter.
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On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, proclaiming that all slaves were free.
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The reconstruction of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments was to reconstruct the South after the Civil war. They abolished slavery, prohibits discrimination against voting rights (besides women).
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The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse was one of the last battles of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant agreed on terms.
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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during a play on April 14 1865, by John Booth. Booth was attempting to revive the Confederate cause.
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Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment was the first impeachment of a president.
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The Standard Oil trust was founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller.
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Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb. ALexander Grahm Bell invented the first telephone. December 17 1903, the Wright Brothers designed the first aircraft.
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes was one of the most serious labor disputes in U.S. history. The dispute occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company.
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, Theodore Roosevelt became president from September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909.
