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Jamestown Settled
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First meeting of Legislative Assembly.
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Slavery began to aid in the growth of tobacco which played a big part in America's economy.
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Mayflower Compact established
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French and Indian War Began
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Forbade colonial settlement west of the Apalachian Mountains
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Ended the French and Indian War
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Put taxes on legal documents
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British soldiers killed 5 colonists
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Colonists dressed like indians and threw all the tea into the boston harbour to revolt against the taxes.
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First Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
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Moved to American Independence.
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Kicked off American Revolutionary War
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Declared independence from britain
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First government basis of the United States
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Washington fought Cornwallis
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Period in which our government was the weakest due to weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation
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Established to survey the land surrounding the states
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Discussed issues of interstate trade
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Debt-Ridden farmers rebelled
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Didn't allow american colonization west.
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Created our government
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Established sense that slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person when selecting representation of state in congress
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Got constitution established and ratified
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George Washington became the president of the united states of america.
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Established our Judicial system
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Cotton Gin revolutionized the cotton industy in the south, invented by Eli Whitney
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Yup
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Exercised Judicial Review for the first time
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British pushed us too far
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Tried to impede operation of the Bank of the United States
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A politically active female who was very famous for her success in the area of Womens rights. She was able to get women the righ tto vote during her life
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Allowed states below 36, 30 to be slave states and those above to be free states
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President Monroe tried to keep europeans from invading on soil in the western hemisphere
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Established American Government's power to regulate commerce
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Made reservations for indians to live on
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US Residents could have 160 acres on the condition that they used it for 5 years
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Didn't allow the chinese to immigrate into america for some time
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A riot that started after someone threw a bomb at the police
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The first federation of several labor unions
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Act to try destroying the indian reservations
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An attempt as part of the Dawes Act to try and get indian people to assimilate into the american culture and drop their own
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Anti-trust, anti-monopoly act the tried to add regulations to companies so they could not invest stock into other companies and become monopolies
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An act that was passed to limit certain actions that could be taken by companies that would lower or even stop all competitiveness
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A movement to correct the excess of the Gilded Age
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Industrial lockout for the steel industry due to poor working conditions and terrible living conditions
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Nationwide railroad strike
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Spanish surrendered control of Cuba
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A conflict between Mexico and America
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Created to limit the amount of immigrants due to populations rising high in certain areas of the united states
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Allowed voters to cast direct votes to US Senators
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Established Congress' right to create a federal income tax
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Established the FTC to monitor businesses so they could not become monopolies
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Gave women the right to vote.
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Germany was divided into the democratic west and communist east at the beginning of the cold war
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The Cold War was the uneasy peace between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II
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President Harry S. Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 which later became known as the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan is a gigantic financial aide program that supplied Europe with money to help rebuild their economy
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After Berlin was spli in two, the US decided to fly in food and supplies to West Berlin
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established as a defensive alliance among the US and the Western Euorpean countries with the main goal to prevent the spread of communism
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Mao Zedong beat the nationalists in china and took over, spreading communism throughout the country with absolutely no interference
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The korean war was a large war between communist north and democratic south korea, the north was aided by chinese. The war eventually ended in a stalemate after a big power "teeter-totter"
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Eisenhower became president during the last years of the cold war
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The Warsaw Pact was an alliance between the societ union and East European countries that opposed the NATO alliance
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The Soviets launched Sputnik into space, beating the US in the beginning of the Space Race.
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Pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot in a U-2 plane during the cold war in Soviet Airspace. This was significant because we had assumed that the Soviets couldn't even see the spy planes.
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John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 and his inauguration speech included the "Ask not..." and the "US would pay and price.." speech pieces that are still very famous
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The berlin wall was built to separate the democratic west from the communist east berlin
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The Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in cuba but JFK demanded they be removed and he won that short issue. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very significant because it almost sparked WWIII, a huge nuclear war
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John F. Kennedy was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald