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Oct 9, 1492
Discovery of America by Columbus
Christopher Columbus left Spain looking for a new way to reach Asia, but instead he arrived in the Americas. The first settlement of Europeans in the Americas. -
The Settlement of Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. This settlement was in the colony of Virginia. -
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The French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven' Years War, the French and Indian War saw two European imperialists fight over territory and marked the beginning of the soldier who would become America's first president, George Washington. -
The Boston Tea Party
This was a sign of protest against British Parliament's tax on tea. Americans dumped tea from ships into the Boston Harbor. This action resulted with the Intolerable Acts. -
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent to confiscate weapons from Americans, but instead they ran into an angry, untrained militia who killed 900 British soldiers and won the battle. This sparked the colonies' confidence and they got prepared for the upcoming wars -
The Declaration of Independence
This day marks the birth of a new nation. Americans signed a treaty with the British breaking all ties between them and making the United States an independent nation. The U.S. was no longer a British colony. -
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The Battle of Yorktown
The British and the Americans allied in order to defeat the British. This was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. -
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The Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention[1]:31 (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,[1]:31 the Federal Convention,[1]:31 or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia[2][3]) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation -
The invention of the cotton gin
Whitney received a patent for his invention in 1794; he and Miller then formed a cotton gin manufacturing company. The two entrepreneurs planned to build cotton gins and install them on plantations throughout the South, taking as payment a portion of all the cotton produced by each plantation. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
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The War of 1812
The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. -
The Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
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The invention of the Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, 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
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time. -
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The trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
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The Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexico War and in Mexico the American Intervention in Mexico (Intervención americana en México, or Intervención estadounidense en México) or United States-Mexico War (Guerra de Estados Unidos-México), was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
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American Civil War
The American Civil War was a result of the controversy over owning slaves in America. The war was fought through Lincoln and Davis' presidencies. The north and the south fought because the south wanted slavery but the north wanted to abolish slavery. This is important because after the Union's (north) victory, there was no more slavery and although African Americans were still discriminated, they eventually earned all rights. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
The 13th (1865), 14th (1868), and 15th Amendments (1870) were the first amendments made to the U.S. constitution in 60 years. Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
On the morning of April 9, while General Robert E . Lee realized that the retreat of his beleaguered army had finally been halted, U. S. Grant was riding toward Appomattox Court House where Union Cavalry -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre -
Andrew Johnson impeachment
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson occurred in 1868, when the United States House of Representatives resolved to impeach President Andrew Johnson -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
Standard Oil Trust organized. John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Trust by trading stockholders' shares for trust certificates. The trust was designed to allow Rockefeller and other Standard Oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another. -
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The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
The Telephone & Alexander Graham Bell
The Light Bulb & Thomas Edison
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
homestead and pullman strikes homestead strike The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. -
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The Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
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Andrew Jackson Election
The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election. -
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The Firing of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
