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Christopher Columbus Discovered America in 1492. Columbus led his three ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Palos. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited.
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On December 6, 1606, the journey to Virginia began on three ships: the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery. On May 13 1607, they arrived in North America to start a settlement.They picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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It was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies.
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This war was another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France.
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This wasn't a real party but was actually a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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This war happened while the British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons. But they were met with an untrained ragtag army and were defeated.
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It is a document declaring that the states are independent from Britain.
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The constitution was created to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the articles of confederation.
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This was the most important battle of the revolutionary war.
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The cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seed. This made it much faster than manual labor.
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This was a series of law that were passed by the passed by the federalist congress, these laws made it harder for immigrants to vote and gave more power to deport foreigners.
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This was land that we purchased from France. the land amount was about 827,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River and was purchased for $15 million.
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Grate Brittan was trying to take over the US again. This time they tried to take our sea men and block our ports.
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Missouri wanted to be a slave state so they asked congress but because of this the balance was not equal so they had more changes to make with other states. But in the end Missouri did become a slave state.
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Andrew Jackson was running for president and succeeded! YEAH!
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The telegraph was a machine made by Samuel Morse that made it easier for long distance communications.
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This was a series of forced relocations of Native Americans. They were forced out of the southern states westward to designated Indian territory.
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This was a war between us and Mexico because we thought we had to get to the pacific ocean. I think.
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so California and Washington DC became free states and a bunch of other territories became states.
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This was a naval battle between the north and the south. The south were trying to get supplies to the fort but the north deflected and made it impossible for the south/
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It is a proclamation declaring all slaves in the rebellious states free!
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These were the first amendments created in the US. These amendments were created to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves.
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This was the surrendering of southerners surrendering to the northers.
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This was when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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This was when Andrew Johnson got thrown out of office for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He was not the only one to come up with the idea but he was the one who actually created a working one.
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The Reconstruction was an era that was between Jan 1, 1863 – Mar 31, 1877.
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He was not the first to create one but his was the safest and the most practical.
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This strike was caused because workers in a steel company wanted a three year contract but Henry Clay Frick was against it so he locked them out of the facility.
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This strike was about Rail Road workers not getting paid enough so they went on strike.
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It was a war between Spain and the US.
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He becomes President!YEAH!
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The Wright brothers were the first to make an air plane that could really fly.
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the first model T Ford was completed at the company's piquette Avenue plant in Detroit.
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It was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the Germain foreign office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. The reason behind this was so that the US would join the war against Germany so Mexico could get Texas back.
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this was a truce to stop all fighting between the allies and their opponents.
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This Amendment granted women the right to vote, this right is know as woman's suffrage. This ended almost a sentry of protest.
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The Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his plane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic ocean.
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It is a series of programs and projects instituted during the great depression by Franklin D. Roosevelt. His aim was to restore prosperity to Americans.
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he basically intimidated people to let him become Chancellor. Clearly it worked.
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The British and French Prime ministers signed the Munich Pact with
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This was known as a few different things, in Poland it was known as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive war, but in Germany it was known as the Poland Campaign. This was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War ll.
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The Japanese Navy Air Service attacked Pearl Harbor surprising the United States Naval base. The attack caused us to enter into World War ll.
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It was the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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Towards the end of World War ll the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom.
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This was an 8,000 word telegram by George Kennan to the Department of State detailing his views on the soviet union, and the U.S. policy toward the communist state.
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Rockefeller created a extremely large oil trust by buying out all of the other oil companies.