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In 1492 The Eropeans arrive on Native land and Ignore the fact that it is already owned.
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This timeline will be about every topic I have covered this summer. It will help me put the pieces together of US history.
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The Middle Passage brought the slaves from West Africa to the West Indies to be sold and do hard labor under plantation owners
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Nathaniel Bacon led a group of disgruntled citizens in search of justice. They felt their interests were not represented by Virginia's colonial legislature. They felt the governor had done nothing to protect them from Indian raids.
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A war the that started from a larger war against the French and the British called the "Seven Years War"
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A colonial revolt to free the thirteen colonies from Britain rule.
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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.
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the economy was in a shambles, Exports to Britain were restricted. Further, British law prohibited trade with Britain's remaining sugar colonies.
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Washington's enormous personal popularity and stature enhanced the legitimacy of the modest new national government.
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Samuel Slater, a cotton spinner's apprentice who left England the year before with the secrets of textile machinery, built a factory from memory to produce spindles of yarn.
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In May 1804, a group of 50 Americans led by Lewis, Jefferson's personal secretary, and Clark, an army officer, headed northwest along the Missouri River from St. Louis.
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The 1824 Presidential Election marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework.
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Andrew Jackson's 1828 inauguration, hundreds of bearded, buckskin-clad frontiersmen trashed the White House while celebrating the election of one of their own to the Presidency.
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operated at night, slaves were moved from station to station by abolitionists. The stations were usually homes, churches, or any safe place to rest and eat before continuing on the journey to freedom.
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John O'Sullivan coined the term "Manifest Destiny" in 1845 to describe the essence of The "every man is equal" mindset
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an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848
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1860 there were about 1.5 million free blacks in the southern states.
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in the Confederate States. By freeing slaves in the Confederacy, Lincoln was actually freeing people he did not directly control.
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Booth slipped into the entryway to the President's box, holding a dagger in his left hand and a Derringer pistol in his right. He fired the pistol six inches from Lincoln and slashed Rathbone's arm with his knife. Lincoln was brought to a nearby boarding house, where he died the next morning.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States
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Andrew Johnson became the first President to be impeached. Congress was looking for any excuse to rid themselves of an uncooperative President.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/35c.asp
