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Christopher Columbus founded America 1492. Columbus took his three ships ,the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His goal was to sail west until he reached Asia where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited.
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Jamestown settlement in the small town in Virginia was the first and only english settlement in america. William Kelso wrote Jamestown is where the British Empire began.
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The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson and used by the Second Continental Congress states the reasons the British colonies of North America pleaded independence in July of 1776.
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The French and Indian War dispute the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years War of 1756–63. It broke apart the colonies of British America against the people in New France.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest held by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts on December 16, 1773.
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First Revolutionary Battle at Lexington and Concord was held In April 1775, when British troops are sent to take colonial weapons, they run into an inexperienced and angry group of people.
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The Siege of Yorktown also known as the Battle of Yorktown the Surrender at Yorktown German Battle or the Siege of Little York which ended on October 19, 1781
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On May 25, 1787, 55 delegates representing every state but Rhode Island met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia now known as Independence Hall. people you may know include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.
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In 1794 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that changed the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton and making the production a lot quicker.
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law created by President John Adams in 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts summed up of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France
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The Louisiana Purchase was an assumption of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs.
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a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom
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an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
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The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828.
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The electrical telegraph or also known as the telegraph took over all types of telegraph systems and becoming the first form of electrical telecommunications. In a matter of decades after their creation in the 1830s, electrical telegraph networks permitted people and commerce to transmit messages across both continents and oceans almost instantly, with widespread social and economic impacts.
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native Americans form their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that were supposed to be held for themselves but the president of The United States, Andrew Jackson, felt that it was ment for the white people so the natives were removed.
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The Panic of 1837 was a mini great depression in witch the U.S saw a economic fall that sent values and prices down and unemployment up.
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The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between Mexico and The United Sates and the outcome was an American victory gaining the area of texas and ending most of their feud's
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an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
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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.
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Proclamation 95 was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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three days after Johnson's dismissal of Stanton, the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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known as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.
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It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army / Army of the Potomac under Lt. Gen. and General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the ten-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina of the Army of Tennessee.
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The Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in south carolina
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on April 14th,1865 president abraham lincon was assasinated by john wilkes booth in the Fords theater
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War.
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homestead and pullman strikes homestead strike The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead
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a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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The electronic light bulb was created by 3 people most notable was Thomas Edison. The Telephone was invented by Alexander Bell. The airplane was invented by the Wright brothers.
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an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio,
