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Columbus was funded by the Spanish and sailed westward from spain hoping to find a new route to South and Southeat Asia.
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The Jamestown Settlement was the first colony in North America, it was founded by the Virgina Company of London, looking to find gold, and establish a foothold in the new world.
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The French and Indian War was a battle between Great Britian and France for control of North America.
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This is when The Sons of Liberty dressed up as indians and threw 342 chests of tea into the water.
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This is when the British tried to seize Lexington and Concord from the American colonial militia.
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This is when 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britian.
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This was the final battle of The Revolutinary War.
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This is when 12 of the thirteen states attended to talk about the weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation.
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This was when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to separate the seeds from the cotton faster, increasing productivity.
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The Alien and Sedition acts were made up of 4 laws passed by Congress which targeted immigrants and aimed to restrict criticism of the government.
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This is when the United States bought approximately 828,000 square miles of territory from France for $15 million.
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The War was a battle between the United States and Great Britian fighting over problems including Btritish imprisonment of American sailers, trade restrictions, and support fro Native American resistance to U.S. expansion.
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The Missouri Comprimase was a agreement that made Missouri and slave stat and Maine as a free state.
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The Andrew Jackson's Election is when Andrew Jackson beat John Quincy Adams to become president of the United States.
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This is when Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail created Morse Code.
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This is when we forcefully removed American Idian tribes mainly the Cherokee from their sacred lands in the southeastern United States to land west of the Mississippi River.
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The Panic of 1837 was a severe economic depression in the United States, caused by land speculation, increased credit from state chartered bank, and a decline in cotton prices and the contration of credit by the Bank of England.
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The Mexican-American War was a battle between the United States and Mexico, it was started due to the U.S. annexation of Texas and inspired from the American concept of "Manifest Destiny" to expand through out the continent.
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The Comprimise of 1850 was a series of five statutes passed in 1850 that attempted to solve problems over slavery in the new territories we won from the Mexican-American War.
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The Firing on Fort Sumter was when the fort was bombarded by Confederate forces which marked the official start of the American Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a executive order from Aberham Lincoln during the Civil War, It declared that all enslaved people in the Confedorate states rebeling against the Union were freed.
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The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse was the final battle of the American Civial War's most important campaign, ending in Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army of North Virgina to the Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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The Assassination of Aberham Lincoln was the murder of president Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
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The creation of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments happened after the Civial War to address the status of formerly enslaved people and make them citizens.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached due to him removing a cabit member without senate approval.
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The Organization of Starndard Oil Trust was a management system where the stock of numerous Standard Oil companies was pooled under the reign of the board of nine trustees.
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes was a violent dispute at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, where the worker went against the wage cuts, leading to fight between with the Pikerton guards and eventual stoppage from the state militia, ultimately destroying the Union.
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The Spanish-American War was a battle between the United States and Spain the ended with the United States winning territories in the Pacific and Caribbean , and ended the Spanish rules of the Americas.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the vice president of William Mckinley and then became president after William Mckinley was assassination.