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30,000-10,000 years ago the First people arrive in the Americas
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Late 1300's renaissance begins in Europe
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Prince Henery the Navigator directed Portuguese efforts to sail into the Atlantic, spread Christianity and outflank Muslim domination of trade.
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The first major European trading fort was established.
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Queen Isabella and King Ferdinad of spain provided 3 ships, 90 men, and and most funding for Columbus's voyage west in search for china. In 33 days he reached the Bahamas. He reaches America.
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English found Jamestown
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New york and New Jersey become English Colonies
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In England, Thomas Newcomen invents a workable steam pump for use in mines
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts
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On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston, containing the following words: "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor. This is when all of the tea was dumped into the harbor.
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Peace treaty ends revolutionary war
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Constitution is ratified
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John Adams
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Booker T. Washington opens the Tuskegee Institute on July 4, 1881, in Tuskegee, AL.
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The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France, in July 1885.
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The Haymarket Riot in Chicago took place when a bomb was thrown into a mass meeting called to show support for striking workers.
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The statue of Abraham Lincoln, "Standing Lincoln," by Augustus Saint-Gaudens is unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois.
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Work begins on the first motion picture camera at Thomas A. Edison's laboratory.
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Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
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Traveled around the country to get women to join the National American Womens Suffarage Assosiation (NAWSA)
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Congress establishes Yosemite National Park at the urging of naturalist John Muir who argues passionately for the preservation of its sequoia forests. The Ahwahneechee lived here for generations followed by the arrival of Europeans in the mid 1800s.
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African American teacher, that helped form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). This organization helped families strive for success and to assist the less fortunate. Also they setup a day-care centers to protect and educate children while parents were at.
