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Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia Company of London founded it and was named after King, James I. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Was the start of the American Revolutionary War! Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache -
The signing of the Declaration of Independence
Very important because 56 of the Second Continental Congress started signing the declaration of independence. This document secured the unity of America against Britain. -
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Constitutional Convention
The point that was made here is how will America will be governed. It was called to revise the Article of Confederation, but many delegates had bigger plans. -
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Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams by a margin of seventy-three to sixty-five electoral votes in the presidential election of 1800. With the votes tied, the election was thrown to the House of Representatives as required by Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. -
Manifest Destiny
This is the territorial expansion of the United States. This era, from the War of 1812 to the acquisition of Alaska in 1867, has been called the "age of manifest destiny". -
Missouri Compromise
This so-called Missouri Compromise drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves—half free, half slave.stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe -
Trail of Tears
This was part of the Indian removal. This was a series of forced displacements and ethnic cleansing of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes -
Nullification Crisis
This was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States. Calhoun, who opposed the federal imposition of the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and argued that the U.S. Constitution gave states the right to block the enforcement of a federal law. -
Bessemer Steel Process
Henry Bessemer, the inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), lead to the development of the Bessemer converter. Made it cheap and easy to make steel. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
This was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. The return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, meant that this started the American Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This happened when the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.