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the Puritans found Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
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Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded the colony
of Rhode Island, because he wanted religious freedom and separation of church, which were adopted by framers of the U.S. Constitution. -
English settlers had found 13 colonies along the Atlantic Coast. The French controlled Canada and Louisiana. And France and England fought several wars during this time.
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England is now in control of Canada
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All the taxes were removed except on tea, so a group of patriots disguised as Indians, boarded British merchant ships and dumped 342 crates of tea into Boston harbor to stop taxes on tea.
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the Continental Congress adopted a Declaration of
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American soldiers defeated the British Army at Saratoga, New York. France and America signed treaties of alliance, and France helped by gifting Americans with troops and warships.
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The war officially ended with the Treaty of Paris in, by which America became independent.
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Andrew Jackson became the first "outsider" elected
president. words of the Declaration of Independence, were meaningless for 1.5 million slaves. So, Slavery was permitted in the new state of Missouri and the Arkansas Territory but barred everywhere west and north of
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After Abraham Lincoln, a foe of slavery, was elected
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In 1861 the Civil War had begun and it ended in April 9, 1865. Later that month on the 15th Abraham was assassinated.
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The American Federation of Labor was found, and it was a coalition of trade unions.
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the United States and Spain went to war in 1898.It ended at the end of the year in December and the United States had gained possessions from Spain.
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When World War I started in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson urged a policy of American neutrality. Then the Congress declared war on Germany in 1917, and the American army drafted millions of men.
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In October 1918 Germany asked for peace, and an
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The United States was now a consumer society, with markets for radios, home appliances, synthetic textiles, and plastics. People were selling all over the US.
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The stock market crashed, triggering a worldwide depression. Making a lot of citizens go broke.
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The United States tried to go into neutrality but they were brought into war, first against Japan and then against its allies, Germany and Italy.
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The war against Japan ended when President Harry Truman used atomic bombs against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nearly 200,000 civilians were killed.