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French/Indian War
This war lasted 7 years. This war was between Great Britain and France. Because this war lasted so long, it was very expensive. The colonists were taxed and were the people who had to end up paying for the war. -
Industrial Revolution
This was a time when everything was being changed from hard labor that took hours every single day, into machine work that took much less time than a human doing it. They started using water power instead of slaves, and steam power. Lots of tools were also created to help. -
Start of Factories
Factories started in about 1770. The first one employed over 300 people. Not only did factories help employ people, but it also helped with construction of materials and making things we use everyday. Many people liked the idea of factories, so they started to build more and more. -
Boston Tea Party
This 'party' was a protest of the tea act. Lots of taxes had been put down on the colonists to pay for the French/Indian war, tea being one of the new items that would be taxed. The colonists were mad about this so they dumped tea into the ocean to protest the act. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War started as a rivalry between Great Britain and the 13 colonies. Britain raised taxes for the Americans, and they were not happy about it. First it was the Americans boycotting, the boycotts turned into battles, and thus began the revolutionary war. -
Writing of the Constitution
The constitution was written to establish the government and the laws. It was written by James Madison in 1787 in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark started in St. Louis and traveled to the west side of the Americas, clear over to the Pacific ocean. Thomas Jefferson was the one who sent them to discover what is on the rest of the Americas. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was made to help with the issue of anti-slavery or pro-slavery. There was a 'line' drawn between the north and south states. The north states were free states, south were slave states, but Missouri was also a free state. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was a belief that the people living in the Americas (colonists) were destined to expand throughout the Americas, mainly North. Everybody worked their hardest to expand into the rest of the United States. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was the controversy (which lead to a war) of Kansas being a slave state or a free state. People from both sides would cross the border to try and make it what they wanted it to be. -
Civil War
The Civil War was a number of battles between the North and the South regions of America. It all started because some states wanted slaves, and the others wanted to let slaves be free. This created a lot of controversy and made the states split for some time. -
Radical Reconstruction
This is when the Republicans took the job of reconstruction into their own hands, after the northerners denied Johnson's policies. They helped reconstruct laws for the Americas. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln went to the theater one night and told his body guard he wouldn't need him that night. However, it was just after a war, so this wasn't the smartest idea. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth that night at the theater.
