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Christopher Colombus sailed West from Spain searching for a new route to Southwest Asia.
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Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery were the three English ships sent to settle at Jamestown.
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Great Britain and France were fighting against each other for control of North America.
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It was a political protest where the Sons of Liberty threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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These battles sparked off the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
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A pronouncement of America to be independent of the America to independent of the British Crown.
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This battle was a victory for America against British troops.
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An event that was held to figure out how Americas government system was going to work.
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A machine that easily separates cotton into fibers
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Acts that applied to immigrants making it difficult for them to get into America.
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Where the US bought Louisiana from France.
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Humphry Davy created electric light in 1802.
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A fight between the United States and Great Britain.
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It was a compromise between the northern and southern states. They agreed that the northern states could have Missouri if the south could keep slavery legal.
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Andrew Jackson and his opponent, John Adams were mortal enemies. The election included serious accusations directed at the two men.
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The trail of tears was when about 600,000 Native Americans were forced to be removed from their homeland.
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Samuel Morse started to experiment with electromagnetic signals leading to the invention of the telegraph.
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A period of time when price and wages went down while unemployment went up.
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This war was started with an argument between America and Mexico over the possession of Texas.
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A series of bills that dealt with fugitive slaves and the slave trade in general.
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An attack on Fort Sumter that consisted of Sumter being fired at for 34 hours.
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When Abraham Lincoln announced that all slaves should be freed.
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The 13th amendment dealt with the abolishment of slavery.
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At Appomattox Court House, Robert Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes booth while attending a play.
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He was impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
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An amendment that basically states that all American citizens should be treated equally.
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It stops the states from denying a person's right to votes based on what the person looks like.
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It's difficult to find out who the inventor exactly was since it was a collaboration of sorts.
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John D. Rockefeller built the company after buying all of the other oil companies.
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In Pennsylvania, workers from Carnegie Mills went on strike.
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The Americans had sympathy for Cubans so America helped the Cubans gain freedom from Spain.
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He became the 26th president after being the governor and vice president.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first working airplane.