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British colonization of the Americas. British colonization of the Americas (including colonization by both the English and the Scots) began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas.
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The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, brought by Dutch traders who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship.
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In the 1750s, Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians. In 1754, George Washington led an army against the French.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America
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The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House
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The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the late 18th century because of the country's large labour supply, plentiful natural resources, and overseas markets for manufactured goods
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The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty.
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The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
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The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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n March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in that case, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri.
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The 1860 United States presidential election was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860.
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The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption
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It was an amendment that was passed that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
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The East and the West were connected and the idea of Manifest Destiny was growing
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Ellis island is one of the largest ports in the country. It starts accepting immigrants and it was a symbol of freedom .
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The Wright brothers completed the first controlled flight. It paved the way for new inventions and innovations in the future.
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America entered the war and sided with the allies. Britain was the reason the United States jointed the war because they targeted US shipping ships.
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The 19th Amendment is passed. Granted women the right to vote.Provided men and women with equal rights .
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The allies come out as winners and America come out with its first war as an established country. Germany had surrendered and a peace treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919
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right when the economy was booming and everything was doing good, the stock market crashed, which sent America into a decade a depression
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The Star Spangled Banner was adopted by congress in 1931 and became America's national anthem.
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She made a monumental change for women when she was elected as the first female senator. This showed that America was becoming a place of equality and equal opportunity.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly the transatlantic in 1932.
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FDR passed many government deals during his time as president trying to get America out of the Great Depression. His deals did give many Americans jobs and hope for a better future.
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After the bombing of pearl harbor, America enters the war and declared war on Japan.
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Atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in a response to them bombing Pearl Harbor.
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The United States successfully detonates the first ever hydrogen bomb in the island of Enewetak
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The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty that was signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and the seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of central and eastern Europe
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Alaska become a state on January 3, 1959
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ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination
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Malcolm X was shot while he was preparing to give a speech to the Afro American unity in Manhattan.
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Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony of his hotel room while he was visiting Memphis, Tennessee
