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European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs. The Spanish were among the first Europeans to explore the New World and the first to settle in what is now the United States.
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On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
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This war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies.
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In the colonies struggle for independance workers and their interests played an important role in the success of the revolutionary movement. Workers uniting to better their conditions.
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Revolutionary war was the conflict between Great Britain and its 13 colonies when they declared independant as the United States of America. 1775-1783
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The Young Republic Era started in 1789 and ended in 1814. The Articles of Confederation of 1781 said that each state would have sovereignty. Sadly the liberty people won from the British did not extend to the poor landless, women.
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First U.S president
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When the constitution was ratified people for it were Federalists, and people against it were Anti-Federalists
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Second U.S president
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Sectionalism in america refered to the different lifestyles people in the North and South lived.
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3rd U.S president
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Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States.
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4th U.S president
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The war of 1812 was a military conflict lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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5th U.S president
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If his election in 1828 launched the Age of Jackson. This stopped the era of good feelings. The age of jackson lasted until his death in 1845
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6th U.S president
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7th U.S president
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8th U.S president
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11th President
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War between U.S and mexico from 1846 to 1847. War started by the United states and resulted in Mexico's defeat and half of its national territory in the north.
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Start of Civil War
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16th U.S president
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American civil war. This war was fought to determine the survival of the Union or independence feor the Confederacy
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Period right after the civil war in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union
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19th U.S president
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Immediately after the presidential election of 1876. Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes's election.
