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This is a timeline demonstrating what I have learned from the Mayflower up to the American Revolution. It takes place between the years 1492 to 1877.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/1a.asp European explorers and settlers have ignored the vast diversity of the people who had lived here before.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/8a.aspFrench explorer Champlain had gone to and mapped the New England coast multiple times before the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/1a.asp The first African Americans that went to Jamestown in 1619 on a Dutch trading ship were not slaves or were they free.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/10.aspRemember the failed "Albany Plan of Union in 1754. Benjamin Franklin's political cartoon appeal — "Join, or Die" fell on deaf colonial ears."
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/7f.aspAt the time of the American Revolution, English citizens made up less than two thirds of the colonial population, excluding Native Americans. Nearly one fifth of the population was of African descent.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/13a.aspOn the one hand, the Declaration was a formal legal document that announced to the world the reasons that led the thirteen colonies to separate from the British Empire. Much of the Declaration sets forth a list of abuses that were blamed on King George III.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/17.aspLate 18th-century America still had a relatively small population.Once Washington somewhat reluctantly agreed to be a presidential candidate, his election in 1789 received almost universal support.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/15.asp Ideas about the future of the United States in the 1780s were often cast in dramatic opposition to one another. The federal constitution has been drafted by a group of national leaders in Philadelphia in 1787.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/27a.aspIn 1792, the widow of the Revolutionary War general, Whitney created the device that changed the world.The cotton gin ultimately grew to produce a thousand pounds of cotton per day with relatively little expense.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/26a.aspthe revolt against Jonathan Edwards strict calvinism produced many new sects. New York published the BOOK OF MORMON and established the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints in 1830.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/20a.aspThe election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson,Each side believed that victory by the other would ruin the nation.Overall, the Federalists wanted strong federal authority to restrain the excesses of popular majorities.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/28.aspISupporters of colonization wanted totransport the slave population back to Africa. Many African Americans rightly believed that they had helped build this country and deserved to live as free citizens of America.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/22.aspIn 1821 eleven new states had been added from Maine to Louisiana. The United States had claimed political independence, but its ability to make that claim a reality required at least another fifty years to be fully settled.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/24.aspOn July 4, 1826, less than two years before King Andrew ascended to the throne, the Yankee John Adams and the aristocratic Virginian Thomas Jefferson both passed away. Jackson's strong personality and controversial ways incited the development of an opposition party, the whigs.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/29.aspNewspaper editor John Sullivan coined the term "Manifest Destiny" in 1845 to describe the essence of this mindset. The religious fervor spawned by the Second Great Awakening created another incentive for the drive west.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/30.aspThe Mexican War was over. Every goal set by the United States government when declaring war against Mexico was reached and then some.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/32.aspBetween 1856 and 1860, America would see a breakdown in many of its political processes that had developed over the last eight decades. The Congress and the Presidents of the past decade had failed to resolve the burning issue of slavery in the territories.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/33.aspIn 1861, everyone predicted a short war. Most believed that one battle of enormous proportion would settle a dispute at least 90 years in the making. But history dictated a far more destructive course.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/35a.aspIn 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson, a Democratic senator from Tennessee, as his Vice Presidential candidate. Lincoln was looking for Southern support.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/35.aspSlavery, in practical terms, died with the end of the Civil War. Three Constitutional amendments altered the nature of African American rights.
