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Spaniards poured into the New World seeking land, gold, and titles
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European expansion
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French colonization developed through investment from private trading companies. Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia)
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In April 1607 Englishmen aboard three ships—the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—sailed forty miles up the James River (named for the English king) in present-day Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) and settled on just such a place
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Jamestown, Virginia, founded by English settlers, who begin growing tobacco for trade.
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The Dutch also established farms, settlements, and lumber camps
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The English colonies in New England established from 1620 onward were founded with loftier goals than those in Virginia.
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Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.
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Charles Town (Charleston) founded in present-day South Carolina.
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Slavery and the Making of Race
Whether they came as servants, slaves, free farmers, religious refugees, or powerful planters, the men and women of the American colonies created new worlds -
Conflict in the ongoing struggle between the British and French for control of eastern North America. The British win a decisive victory over the French on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec.
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Britain gains control of territory up to the Mississippi river following victory over France in the Seven Years' War.
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Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston harbor and dump more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest against the British
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American Revolution: George Washington leads the Continental Army to fight against British rule.
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July 4th - Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress; colonies declare independence.
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Founding Fathers drafted the constitution for United States of America that it went into effect in 1788
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George Washington became the first president of the United States.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state
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US acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln becomes the US 16th president.
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Civil War took place between 1861-1865 Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War.
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Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free
