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Columbus was not the first European to visit the New World.
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The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was in the colony of Virginia.
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The fight between France and Great Britain to determine control of the vast colonial territory of North America.
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An American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of Independence.
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The pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender.
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The Constitutional Convention happened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of this meeting was to decide how America was going to be governed.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. Whitney's invention the production of cotton.
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Four acts passed by the Federalist-dominated fifth U.S. Congress and signed into law by president John Adams
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Humphry Davy invented the electric light.
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The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France.
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A conflict fought between the U.S. and its allies, and Great Britain and its dependent colonies in North America and its allies. The War of 1812 happened in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri as a slave state.
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The eleventh quadrennial presidential election.
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Forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans by the United States government known as the Indian Removal.
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone.
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A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression. Profits, prices, and wage went down.
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Conflict between Mexico and America stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the United States.
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Package of five separate bills passed by the United States congress.
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The thirteenth amendment was made in 1865. The fourteenth amendment was made in 1868. The fifteenth amendment was made in 1870.
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The bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia.
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A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln.
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They fought in Appomattox county, Virginia, one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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It happened in Petersen House, Washington D.C.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanor's.
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John Rockfeller did this in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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The protests brought to light the deeper issues at work in an age of industrial progress. The Pullman strike happened in 1894. The Homestead strike happened in 1892
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It was between the Spain and the U.S.
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After assassination of president William Mckinley.
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Willbur and Orville Wright
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