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Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships, and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October.
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty
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The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress
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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle
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The event was decide how America was going to be governed.
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A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber
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Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
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The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies.
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The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion.
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The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down; unemployment went up; and pessimism abounded.
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The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication.
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The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
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The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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Standard Oil Co. was an American oil-producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870
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Homestead Strike happened in Homestead, Pennsylvania. ... The workers from Carnegie mills went on strike because Andrew Carnegie, the head of the Carnegie Steel Company, refused to increase the wages.
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