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French/Indian War
England and France started a war that all their colonies participated in. In the Americas the fighting was mostly between colonists and Indians. -
Industrial Revolution
Lasting from roughly 1760 to 1830, the Industrial Revolution was a world wide economical revolution where factories and machines were starting to replace craftsmen. -
Boston Tea Party
England was in heavy debt from its war with France, and decided to tax the Colonists to pay for the war since it was fought for their land. The Colonists thought this was unfair, and responded with the Boston Tea Party, dumping tea Imported from England as protest. -
Revolutionary War
After heavy taxing from England because of the French/Indian war, The colonies rebelled against England. -
Writing of the Constitution
Members of the 13 colonies met to create a central government. They wrote a constitution that specified and restricted what the government was allowed to do, and how it would operate. -
American Factories
An English immigrant named Samuel Slater brought plans for the first factories in America. This was the beginning of the U.S.'s involvement in the Industrial Revolution. -
Lewis and Clark
America had recently completed the Louisiana Purchase, giving the Americans a lot of land they didn't know much about. Lewis and Clark were dispatched to explore and assess the land to give the government a better idea of what they had just bought. -
Bloody Kansas
Bloody Kansas is the name given collectively to the political violence in Kansas between Slavery and Anti-Slavery representatives. Both sides wanted Kansas to vote to be one of their states, so members from both sides came to Kansas to try and influence the vote. The result was that the two sides ended up fighting and killing each other. -
Missouri Comprimise
Non Slave States were concerned about accepting Missouri as a state. If Missouri was accepted in it would shift the balance to have one more slave state than free state, upsetting a long held balance. The Missouri Compromise set several rules designed to maintain balance between slave and free states; one being that a slave state(Missouri) could only join the union if a free state(Maine in this case) would also join so the balance is maintained. -
Civil War
Contention between the north and south had been escalating for a while, which finally came to a head in 1865, when the Confederacy declared independence from The U.S.; In response America declared war on the Confederates starting the Civil war. -
Abraham Assassination
Soon after the Civil war ended a Confederate named John Wilkes Booth assassinated the Union's beloved president Abraham Lincoln. -
Reconstruction
After The Union won the Civil war they could now release all the slaves, but that was far from the end of their troubles. Even though Black people were now free, they were uneducated, and many people didn't see them as equals and persecuted them. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief that it was god's will for America to expand across the continent. This was the reasoning for things such as the trans continental rail road, and western expansion.
