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British and American Colonists vs French Colonists and Native Americans in a Seven Year War
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A group of American Colonists called the "Sons of Liberty" protest the taxation on tea by dumping British Tea into the Boston Harbor.
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British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons and are met by an American militia, who defeat the British.
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The Declaration of Independence is ratified and adopted by the Second Continental Congress
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Last major battle of the Revolutionary War, a decisive victory for the American Colonists
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Founding Fathers meet together to write and edit the American Convention
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by Eli Whitney
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Acts that made it easier to deport foreigners and made it harder for new immigrants to vote.
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Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France
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War between England and America and their respective allies
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The twenty two states in the US were split evenly between slave states and free states
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by Samuel Morse
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Financial Crisis in the US, followed by a depression that lasted until the mid 1940's
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Resulted from The Indian Removement Act of 1830, thousands of Native Americans being forced out of their homes and into "Indian Territory."
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War between Mexico and America following the Annexation of Texas
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A series of resolutions in attempt to avert a crisis between the North and South States
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When the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, starting the Civil War.
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Presidential proclamation that freed all the slaves in the US, issued as an executive order by President Lincoln.
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Final Battle between the Confederate Army led by Robert E. Lee before they surrendered to the Union
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John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills President Lincoln in the Ford Theatre
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Formally Abolished Slavery
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Granted citizenship to all people born in the US
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Designed to allow John D. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another.
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Grants African American men the right to vote
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by Thomas Edison
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Following the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor and the intervention of American troops in the Cuban War of Independence
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By the Wright Brothers
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