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French and Americans defeat British at Yorktown. The war is over.
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Congress adopts first constitution
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British recognize American independence
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Divided into several states. Forbids slavery.
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adopted a new Constitution
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ratified by 3/4 of the states
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George Washington is elected to be first president of the US
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James Madison writes the first 10 amendments to the constitution.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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four laws passed by Congress amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent. The four controversial aws restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country and limited freedom of speech and of the press.
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US defeats british for the last time
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Francis Scott Key writes song to celebrate a British defeat
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Maine becomes the 23rd state and the 12th free state
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Missouri becomes 24th state and is the 12th slave state
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on Independence day
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becomes 7th president
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Cherokees and other Indians forced to move west.
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opens the first track for steam locomotives
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Mexicans kill every American soldier
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Sam Houston and his soldiers defeat Mexicans in a few minutes in retaliation for the Alamo. Secures Texas freedom
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Mary Lyon opens Mount Holyoke college for women in MA.
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Harrison died
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first telegraph message sent
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3,000 pioneers head west
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Brigham Young leads mormons to settle in Utah
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California gold rush begins
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to diffuse tensions between slave and free states
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Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony
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Henry david Thoreau publishes Walden
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Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
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U.S. Supreme Court determined the Constitution does not include citizenship for black people, so they don't get rights and privileges of citizens.
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reaches California
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silver ore discovered in Nevada
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