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*Benjamin Franklin and the first U.S. diplomats win support for the revolution and negotiate a peace with Great Britain.
*William Pitt II becomes English prime minister at age 24 -
End of revolutionary war and the sign of treaty of paris
The end of the Revolutionary war And Britain and the Colonies Sign the treaty of Paris -
Britain cedes all land west to the mississippi river
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*Farmers from New Hampshire to South Carolina take up arms to protest high state taxes and stiff penalties for failure to pay. -
Thomas was overruled when he had tried abolishing slavery.
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Bifocal eyeglasses
*By Ben Franklin
*Without them people would practicly be blind -
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*French revolution began
*George Washington is unanimously elected president of the United States in a vote by state electors -
Northwest Ordinance
it was an act of congress that made the northwest territory -
Constitutional convention
constitution was made -
Geoorge Washington
He was from Virginia and he was the first Preseent he made the jobs for other presedents to follow-even-Presedent Obama. -
Bill of Rights adopted
Bill of Rights adopted -
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*Bill of rights ratified -
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first united states Cenus
There are 700,000 slaves out of 3.9 people -
Seat of government moves from NYC to Philadelphia
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First textile mill, built in Pawtucket,Rhode Island
was staffed
entirely by children under the age of 12. - This affected the children by making the kids tired,by working them too much. -
Judith Sargent Murray writes, Equality of the same genders
written in The Massachusetts Magazine, meant to persuade people to believe women should be treated equal -
Vermont Admitted
Added Tobacco Economy -
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*French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette executed -
Sandwich
*saved time from eating huge meal -
Kentucky Admitted
Plentiful Amounts of Food -
Slave act for running away
There was a slave Act or a slave fugitive because of runaway slaves The United states made an impede for the responsible runaway slaves -
Cotton Gin
*By Eli Whitney
*Made cotton easyier to harvest and helped people by them not having to comb the seeds out by hand -
Fugitive Slave act
escaped slaves. -
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*Napoleon becomes consul -
Cotton Gin made by Eli Whitney patents his device for pulling seeds from the cotton. This invention turns cotton into cash crop of the American South. Also creates a huge demand for slave labor.
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Tennesee Admitted
Diversified Economy -
John Adams
He passed the Alien and Seddition Acts, pwople were not happy about this but it made it to where people that were not born here couldn't vote unless they lived here for a long time first. -
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Alien and sedition act
were four bills that were passed by the Federalists -
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*Louisiana purchase Treaty -
Lightbulb
- Helped people so they can see in the dark
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Eletric Battery
*Made it more fficiant and didn't use as many resources that we were slim on -
Seat of government moves from Philadelphia to Washington, DC
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Women take over primary school teaching
Women replace the male teachers -
Thomas Jefferson
He was from Virginia and he also wrote the Declarsrtion of Independence, he made the University (collage) of Virginia -
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Ohio Admitted
Politically Important -
Louisiana Purchase
we bought land from the french for 15 million dollars -
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*Napolean becomes Emperor -
Lewis and clark Expedition
they explored the land in the Louisiana territory -
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*Barbary War(Pirates and Townspeople)
*Nelson wins the Traflagar -
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*Lewis and Clark expedition encounter Native Americans -
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*Napolean occupies Spain -
Employers start taking labor groups to court for "criminal conspiracies in constraint of trade".
he shoemakers, found guilty and fined, went bankrupt and disbanded. -
banning slave Importing
The united states had banned slave inporting the african american slaves but there is sitll smuggling -
-Congress forbid importing African Slaves
-Congress forbid importing African Slaves -
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*Separatists movements in Latin America -
James Madison
He was from Virginia and he was a leader of the War of 1812 -
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James Madison
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Can and Can Opener
*Store food and open cans -
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*Battle of Tippecanoe(INdians and Colonist) -
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Napoeon defeated in Russia -
Louisianna
New Orleans Port Was Opened to America -
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*Andrew Jackson crushes Creek Resitance in the south -
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*French monarchy re-established -
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*First Seminole War -
Indiana
Population -
Mississippi
Fishing Economy -
James Monroe
He was from Virginia and eh also made the Monroe Doctrine-it said that Endland has mind their own business and stay out of American's business -
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James Monroe
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*Spain cedes Florida to United States -
Illinois
Transportation -
Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel
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Alabama
Many Waterways for Transportation -
Treaty with Spain sets boundaries
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*Mexican Independence -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise- Missouri is admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Slavery is forbidden in any territories north of latitude. -
Maine
Fishing Economy -
Missouri compromise
no slavery in louisiana territory -
Missouri
Population -
Emma Ward opens a Seminary for girls in NY
school for girls to become priests ministers or rabbis. -
Missouri Compromise
ongress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state (1821). It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War. -
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*Brazil gains INdependence form Portugal -
The slave revolt
South Carolina Freed slave denmark vesey attemps a rebellion in charleston 35 participants in the ill fated the uprising are hanged -
Florida Territory
they invaded florida and took the land from spain -
Stephen Austin founds colony in texas
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*Greeks win war of Independence ottoman Empire -
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Greeks win war of independence ottoman Empire -
Monroe Doctrine-
message to congress president James Monroe didn't want outside powers to interfere with all affairs in the western hemisphere. -
John Quincy Adams
He was from Massachusetts and he bult highways and adn canals to link sections of the country and set aside land for conservation -
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First public high schools for girls open in NY and Boston
girls are able to go to school, English high school of boston, Wadleigh High School for Girls -
Chemical Battery
*Helped store battery in chemical for and was sealed in closed energy system -
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Indian Removal Act moves
Eastern Indians west of Mississippi -
Andrew Jackson
He was from South Corolia and he made perfect jobs of the Presedent more more information and more powerful -
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Andrew Jackson
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Lawn Mower
*Kept grass looking nice and trimmed -
Slave Revolt
Slave Revolt- Virginia Slave Preacher Nat Turner leads a 2 day uprising against whites; 60 people get killed. Militia men stop revolt and search for Turner for 2 months. Turner is eventually caught and hanged. Enraged southerners impose harsher restrictions for their slaves. -
About 1600 women band together to demand fair wages for their work.
Women dammanded for a right for fair wages for the work they gave. -
Telegraph
*Samual F.B.Morse
*People could communicate across the U.S. faster -
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Black Hawk War -
Oberlin College becomes the first co-educational college in the world
Both genders were able to go to this school -
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Santa anna elected president of Mexico -
indian Territory founded
Land set aside for the indians from the british later the government set an act that won't let you buy land from indians -
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Second Seminole, War in Florida, Texas War for Independence began -
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Second Seminole, War in Florida, Texas War for Independence began -
forbid the mailin og anti slavery propaganda
Censorship the southern ships had expel abolitionists and forbid the mailing of anti slavery propaganda -
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Battle of the Alamo -
Arkansas
Lumber -
Texas Revolution
When America won the Mexican-American War they got Texas -
Kindergarten
*Trained children for school and got them a little up to date with learning -
Michigan
Population -
Martin Van Buren
He was from New york and he was the first preseedent to be born as an American citizen -
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Cherokee Trail of Tears -
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Iowa Territory organized
They were made when the government wanted them to join the Union -
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Trail of Tears -
Photography
*Memory; helps us remember events that happened in U.S. history and inworld history -
Oregon Trail a trail used by trappers and traders
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Mexican American War begins and ends in 1848 -
Wiliam Henry Harrison
From Virginia He was president for ONE month!!! He caught a cold when he was giving his speech. -
John Tyler
From Virginia First president to be threatened to be sent away (impeached) -
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William Henry Harrison
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States begin to limit childrens hours
Massachusetts limits children’s work days to 10 hours; other states soon pass similar laws—but most of these laws are not consistently enforced -
Florida
Transportation -
Texas
Cattle Industry -
James k. Polk
From North Carolina In charge of the Mexican War--America won Texas, California, and other areas in the United States -
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Sewing Machine
*Saved time and helped prevent injures for needles from the old hand sewing -
Mexican American War Defeated
Mexico yields an enormous amount of terrotority to America. Americans bring up a question, Should slavery be allowed in the new lands. -
Iowa
Corn Industry -
Oregon boundary with Canada established at 49th parallel
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Mormons and the Indians -
Fredrick Douglass
The Fredrick Doughlass Newspaper escaped slave Fredrick begins Publishing the north star Rochester New York -
New Hampshire
became the first state to pass a 10-hour workday law—but it wasn't enforceable. -
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February Revolution by French workers makes
Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Republic -
Wisconsin
Dairy Industry -
Mexican Cession
Land that the Mexicans gave to the Americans in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
Gold discovered in cali.
Gold discovered in cali. -
first woman's rights convention held in seneca falls, NY
this was made to discuss women's social and political equality -
Married women’s Property act enacted in New York state
this is explaining that women will own her husband's property with him. Rents, issues and profits do not just concern her husband and she can own property given to her by anyone -
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Crimean War between Turkey, France & Britain against Russia -
Zachary Taylor
From Virginia He did not want the South to leave the Union and so he would have fought to keep them. -
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Dishwasher
- Saved people time from washing dishes
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California
Fruit Production -
Millard Fillmore
From New York Approved the Compromise of 1850-allowing slavery in the South -
Utah and New Mexico Territories
we go New Mexico during the Mexican-American war -
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Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published a Harriet Beecher stowe's novel about the horrors of slavery sells 300,000 copies in a year of publication -
Gadsden Purchase
A area that the Americans bought that includes Arizona and New Mexico -
Franklin Pierce
From New Hampshire Supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act-allowed people who lived in Nebraska or Kansas to decide if they would have slavery in their state -
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Upper half of Indian territory becomes Kansas territory -
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Franklin Pierce
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Revolver
- Smith and Wesson
- Helped with people with;and made them feel safer
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Kansas Newbraska act setting aside Missouri
Kansas Nebraska act setting aside Missouri Compromise of 1820 the congress allows these two new territories to choose whether they want to allow slavery. There were violent clashes that erupted -
Nebraska and Kansas Territories
Land created, which includes Nebraska and Kansas, where white men could go settle in -
Republican party formed
group of men who belonged to various splinter parties met and adopted the name Republican. -
Dred Scott Desicion
The united states supreme court decides that blacks will never be a citizen and congress has no athority to outlaw slavery in any terrotory. -
James Buchanan
From-Pennsylvania
he didn’t want the South to leave the Union (North), but they did anyways -
Kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution
it was an act that made Kansas slave free -
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Minnesota
Mining and Limber -
Oregon
Many Trade Routes -
The southern session
The Southern Secession South Carolina secedes in december More states follow the next year -
a mass meeting
of the newly formed Mechanics Association demanded higher wages. -
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Unification of Italy -
Civil War
Four years of brutal conflict that claims 623,000 lives. -
Kansas
Hunting -
Western territories reorganized by Republican Congresses
They became territories -
Abraham lincoln
From-Kentucky
Against slavery- sent the North (Union) to fight in the Civil War
Very popular president
people loved him. -
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Battle of gettysburg, French troops occupy Mexico City Maximilian of Austria proclaimed Emperor of Mexico -
The Emancipation Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln decrees that all slaves in rebel territory are free on January 1
The Emancipation Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln decrees that all slaves in rebel territory are free on January 1 1863 -
West Virginia
Coal Mining and Loggining -
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves -
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sand creek massacre -
Nevada
Mining -
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lincoln assassinated by John wilkes booth -
Slavery is abolished.
The 13th Amendment to the United States of America Constitution outlaws slavery. -
Andrew Johnson
from north carolina Party-National Union---Republican
From -north carolina
He got to be president because Lincoln was murdered
He was from the South but was for the North-he did not want slavery -
-Lincoln Assassinated.
-Lincoln Assassinated. -
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Andrew Johnson