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The ancient land bridge where Native Americans traveled from Asia to America
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500 years before Columbus was born the Norse landed in America
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He debated Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the Valladolid Debate; Spanish priest that wrote about the atrocities the Spanish committed against the Native Americans and sought to end the encomienda system; his writings were later used by the British to perpetuate the "Black Legend"
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Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain to find new route to India be he instead landed in america
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The Columbian Exchange was the trading of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World
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The period before Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World, when North America was populated by Native Americans ended when Columbus landed in america
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He debated Bartolome de Las Casas in the Valladolid Debate. He used Aristotelian Doctrine (some people are predisposed to be slaves) to justify treatment of the Native Americans, and he supported forcing natives to convert and accept Spanish king.
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Jamestown founded in virginia
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established at Santa Fe new mexico
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dutch established the seaport on Manhattan island
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Natives killed an English fur trader so Connecticut and Massachusetts send soldiers to kill the tribe
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The British take new Amsterdam from the dutch and renamed it new York
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rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley because he would not collect more land to help struggling/poor farmers.
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an uprising of most of the Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in Santa Fe.
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war ends and Britain starts enforcing laws and taxes in the colonies, first trigger of revolution
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passed by Parliament and imposed taxes on sugar
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parliament put a tax on all paper products
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Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 but then passes a Declaratory Act that gave it complete control over the colonists.
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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was protesting
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colonist threw British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea
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Thomas Jefferson won the presidency against Aron Burr due to the support of Alexander Hamilton. This was surprising because Hamilton hated Jefferson and was friends with Burr.
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President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory using the same argument he had criticized earlier.
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After losing the election Burr blames Hamilton and challenges him to a battle, where he shots and kills Hamilton
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Robert Fulton designed a steam engine for a steamboat that could move against the current of the river and against the wind
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A war fought because Britain refused to lift trade restrictions and continued impressment
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issued a 20% tax on all imported goods
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america declares its Independence from Britain
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Missouri granted statehood as a slave state and slavery baned in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel
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President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act to send Native Americans who lived west off the Mississippi to live on reservations. This lead to the Trail of tears where many natives died.
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compromise to please the south and balance number of free and slave states
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supreme court rules dred could no sue because he was property
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Lincoln wins the presidency
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first shots fired and start of civil war
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president Lincoln suspends habeas corpus to keep southern supporters in jail
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President Lincoln is shot dead by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the end of the civil war
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A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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Native American people led by Chief Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.
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Garfield is assassinated in Elberon New Jersey
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When workers of the Carnegie Homestead steel plant went on strike to protest their harsh working conditions
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McKinley wins the presidency due to the help of business men Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and JP Morgan.
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McKinley is shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York
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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans for the south into the cities in the north.
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The Armistice was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany that agreed to end the fighting on the Western Front.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in New York. With the renaissance came the rise of the flapper and jazz music.
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Herbert Hoover elected president and promised Americans a term filled with economic opportunities.
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. It was the most significant predicting indicator of the great depression.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States for 4 terms.
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The status of silver was slowly diminished through a series of legislative changes from 1873 to 1900, when a gold standard was formally adopted.
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In order to pass more executive orders with little resistance from the supreme court FDR tried to pack the court with democrats who would help him pass his orders.
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On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. The case involved segregation of public schools which was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about American missiles in Italy and Turkey. In defense the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba. This is often considered the closest the Cold War came to full-scale nuclear war.
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The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The act was worked on almost immediately after JFK was assassinated.
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On April 4, 1968 civil rights leader Martin Luther King JR was assassinated. James Earl Raywas arrested on June 8 in London at Heathrow Airport and charged with the crime.
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Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced that the country was ready to end segregation, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
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In 1969 the United States put the first man on the moon and officially won the space race. The race was between the Soviets and the US each trying to out do the other and prove their the best.
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The Kent State shootings were the shootings of college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, by police officers of the Ohio National Guard. 29 guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds killing four students and wounding nine others.
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On this date in 1989 the Berlin wall which had been up for 30 years. It was built to keep the people of the soviet side of Germany in, to stop them from leaving and causing the soviet side crash economically.
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When the World Wide Web was made public people went crazy. The web connected people from all around the world in seconds, allowed information to be transferred quicker, and brought the rise of any new and different businesses.
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On December 26, 1991 the soviet union collapsed. The collapse was caused by the soviets trying to keep up with the USA in military defense.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement between Canada, the USA, and Mexico. The agreement allowed trade between the 3 countries, this was a good and bad thing for america. It allowed for new good to be brought into the country, but it also opened an opportunity for big businesses to take their factories to mexico where labor is cheaper.
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The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City using a truck bomb. The bombing killed 168 people injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building.
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On September 11, 2001 terrorist hijacked 4 planes. 2 were crashed into the twin towers, aka the world trade center. 1 was crashed into the Pentagon and 1 was headed for Washington D.C but the passengers of that plane fought the terrorist and crashed the plane into an open field before it could reach Washington.
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On November 8 2008 Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America, Making him the first African American president of the US. This event caused most of america - especially minorities and young people- to celebrate this huge event in history.
