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God spoke and the universe was created!!! Adam & Eve created on Day 6.
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God scattered people around the world and created different languages.
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Native Americans entered North Americans across Beringia to seek food, shelter, and clothing.
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Jesus Christ was born to save the world.
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Viking explorer named Lief Erikkson landed in Vinland which is modern-day Greenland but did not settle permentanely and returned to Norway.
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Italian Explorer Christopher Columbus sails across the Atlantic Ocean looking for Asia. He lands in the Americas (San Salvador) and declares the island for Spain. He thought he was in India and he named the people Indians. Spanish empire was in search of God, Glory, and Gold.
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First attempt to settle America by English. Leader John White leaves to go back to England for supplies. he returns 3 years later and all colonist have disappeared. Still a Mystery as to what happened to them.
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1st English permanent settlement in the New World. John Smith, Pocahontas, John Rolfe-major part of settlement. Starving TIme in 1609 winter. Indians helped settlement survive.
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13 English Colonies established from 1607 (Virginia) to 1732 (Georgia).
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102 passengers on the Mayflower land at Cape Cod, MA. 41 Pilgram men sign Mayflower Compact before leaving ship. Pilgrims welcomed by Indians. Celebrate Fall Harvest in 1621, later to be called Thanksgiving.
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Fought between 1754-1763 between French and Indians against the British. Started war over the Ohio River Valley region. British won the war on the French were ran out of North America. Colonists taxed to help pay for the war.
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5 colonists died from shooting by British Soldiers. Famous engraving used as propaganda for rest of American colonists,
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Sons of Liberty dump 342 of British Tea into Boston Harbor. King George angry and enacts the Intolerable Acts
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Paul Revere's ride warns the Colonists that the British are coming. 1st Battle of the American Revolutionary War takes place at Lexington, MA. "Shot heard around the world" Colonist lose at Lexington but win at Concord.
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1st Major battle of the war fought between the Cont. Army and British Army. Actually fought on Breeds Hill in Boston. British won but moral victory for the Cont. Army.
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Expresses the Ideals of our natural rights, life, liberty, and happiness on which the US is founded. Lays out the reasons for separation from Great Britain. Main author is Thomas Jefferson.
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Turning point of the Revolution. -
Dec. 1777 - May 1778 Cont. army starve freeze, disease, death during winter. Troops trained by Von Stueben and Lafayette helps finance the troops. -
1st written Constitution of the newly formed United States of America -
British surrender at Yorktown, VA officially ending the American Revolutionary War. -
Group of angry Massachusetts farmers rebel against taxes. Weak state militia and no federal army help. Proved we needed a stronger government. -
Articles of Confederation thrown out. new Constitution created and signed by delegates. Permanent governing document broken into 7 articles. -
1st 10 amendments added to the Constitution. Lists the freedoms of Americans.
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1st tie for presidential election. Tie broke by Alexander Hamilton and Jefferson wins. 12th amendment created shortly after
