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Christopher Columbus's "Discovery" of America is very controversial, but he did bring back a lot of information to Europe and helped allow people to move to 'The New World'
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The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual ferment in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution, and the creation of the American Republic.
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He was one of our founding fathers and he pioneered and was first president of Academy and College of Philadelphia which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania.
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George Washington fought against the french for America's freedom and he became the first president of the United States Of America.
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Thomas Jefferson Was the president who purchased a large amount of land west of the old US knows as the Louisiana purchase, the aided the growth of America.
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Andrew Jackson believed in true democracy, he called this Jacksonian Democracy, although he believed that Native Americans should be moved away.
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Being the first expedition across the western Northern America this brought a lot of information and built "relationships" with many natives. This pioneered the expansion of the United States Of America.
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Abraham Lincoln was president during the civil war and won this war, this resulted in the end of slavery.
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Frederick Douglas was a former slave abolitionist who did many speeches and helped free slaves.
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The Dred Scott case, was a decision by the United States that said "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves" whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing in federal court.