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Columbus wanted to find a new route to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands. So in 1492 he set sail but not to India, China or Japan, but to America. -
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord. marked the start of the American War of Independence. Disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence. -
The Continental Congress voted to declare independence from England. Hence the declaration of independence. -
The Battle of Yorktown was the final battle of the American Revolution. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. -
Inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton. -
A Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years. -
In 1802, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. -
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. bought around 827,000 square miles of land. -
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain -
In an effort to save the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Jackson's victory marked the start of Democratic dominance in federal politics. With the collapse of the Federalist Party, four members of the Democratic-Republican Party, including Jackson and Adams, had sought the presidency in the 1824 election. -
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. -
The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans. The Trail of Tears is over 5,043 miles long and covers nine states. -
Developed by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. -
The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. -
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. -
When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the Battle. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson surrendered the fort. -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. -
The Standard Oil Trust was formed in 1863 by John D. Rockefeller. He built up the company through 1868 to become the largest oil refinery firm in the world. -
Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant -
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln -
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. -
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was initiated on February 24, 1868, when the United States House of Representatives resolved to impeach Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, for "high crimes and misdemeanors", which were detailed in 11 articles of impeachment. -
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with being the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent. The First Bell Telephone was invented on, June 1875. -
Labor strike is a work stoppage caused by employees who refuse to work. Homestead Strike happened in Homestead, Pennsylvania. -
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas. -
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley. -
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
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