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Jamestown is created as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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War over land in North America. Britain wins the war, but has to repay their war debt.
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The British start to tax the colonists on the usage of stamps. The colonists are very against this change.
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Protest against the tea tax from Britain by the Sons of Liberty by throwing tea into the Atlantic Ocean.
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The first battle of the American Revolution
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Colonists talked about becoming Independent
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The colonists declare independence from Britain
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Battle that ends the war and declares the colonists the United States of America.
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During the Continental Congress the constitution was written to lay down rules for the country that came from complaints in the Declaration of Independence.
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On this day a Virginia plantation owner named George Washington takes on the role of being the United States’ first president.
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The United States buy about 828,000 sq mi from France for about $15,000,000 or about $18 per sq mi.
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Francis Scott Key writes the star spangled banner as a poem while watching a battle. It later becomes the country’s nation anthem.
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Many Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Oklahoma to designated Indian areas. Many died from starvation and disease along the “Trail of Tears.”
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War between the Union and Confederacy over the institution of slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln gives a speech to the soldiers to bring them together to help try and end the civil war.
