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Founding of Jamestown
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
It kicked off the Revolutionary War. -
The signing of the Declaration of Independence
Officially, the Congress declared its freedom from Great Britain on July 2, 1776, when it approved a resolution in a unanimous vote. -
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Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. -
Election of 1800
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams. -
Louisiana Purchase
the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803 -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands -
Nullification Crisis
conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States -
monroe doctrine
a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S -
Battle of Fort Sumter
the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia -
Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth. -
Little Big Horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand. -
Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army