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Europeans arrived in America and 54 million people lived in the two continent because of Christopher Columbus.
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Columbus brings 17 ships that bring 1200 men and Animals including cattle, swine, and horses
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He hits the waves off Panama and claimed all the land governed by the sea for his king.
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They leaves from Cuba with 16 horses and hundreds of men on 11 ships.
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The Aztecs attack the Spanish leading the people to a bloddy retreat.
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They laid siege to the city and it capitulated.
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They received a lot of treasures from Spanish coffers.
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They tranversed from Mexico to the Rio Grande Valley. Their interesrt in the Colordo River led them to cross the bare Sonora Desert.
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Spanish cut off one foot of each survivor.
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They got this from the rich mines at Potos and Mexico.
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The winning of the Battle of Acoma allowed them to do this.
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Lord De La Warr carried orders from the Virginia company to declare war against the Indians
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Indian attacks left 347 settlers dead including John Rolfe.
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The secand plantation and 4th colony overall was founded by Lord Baltimore.
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Powhata people become extinct.
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The Spanish established settlements in Texas.
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They started colonizing Georgia.
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Parliament passed Molasses Act, aimed to hault trade between North America and the French Indies
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John Edwards begins the Great Awakening.
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Zenger free-press trial.
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A South Carolina merchant advertised the arrival of printed books, pictures, and maps.
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Boston's poor population had to be supported by Charities and were forced to wear a "P" on their clothes
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Washington had to surrender his entire command
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Pitt became a leader in the London Government.
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New York alone was producing 80,000 barrels of flour a year because of the large production of grain.
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Britian vetoes South Carolina Anti-Slave trade measures.
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An American force under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the British at Ticonderoga.
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Th Second Continental Congress adopted the "Olive Branch Petition".
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King George III proclaimed that the colonies were in rebellion.
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colonists made an attack on Canada in hopes that it would close it off as a possible source for a British striking point.
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Clergy wielded less influence than in the early days of Massachusetts.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote this and it was soon passed on July 4
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Washington and his men were overpowered by the British
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Washington surprised and captured 1,000 Hessians while they were sleeping.
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General Burgoyne was forced to surrender his entire command.
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London officials planned a well thought out scheme to capture the Hudson River Valley.
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The French didn't want Britain to seize the French West Indies. In order to stop this, the French made an analliance, offering all the British did with the exception of independence.
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Spain and Holland become allies agaisnt Britian.
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Cornwallis was forced to surrender.
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A Whig ministry replaced the Tory regime of Lord North.
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The Treaty of Paris was passed.
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The U.S. Constitution went into effect in 1789.
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President Washington signed the Judiciary Act of 1789 that set up the Supreme Court and the Federal Court System.
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President Washington was sworn in on April 30, 1789 on Wall Street
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The Bank of the United States was started
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Violence broke into the Whiskey Rebellion on the frontier of Pennsylvania.
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the Indians signed the Treaty of Grenville where the Indians surrendered much of the Ohio Valley.
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John Adams was nominated by the Federalists for president
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Judiciary Act of 1801 created 16 new federal court districts.
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Jefferson was inaugurated in March of 1801
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First major Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison
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London issued Orders in Council. These rules stated that any foreign ship headed to France must first check-in at a British port for inspection.
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Embargo Act was passed. It forbade all exports to any nation regardless of being at war.
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British ship Leopard attacked the American Chesapeake off of Virginia.
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Madison asked Congress to declare war on England and they did in June of 1812
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Creared as a waterway from New York City to the great lakes.
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The railroad was contrusted.
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An American ship, the Caroline, was attacked ny Cananaians by the Niagra Falls.
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Steel plow was invented by John Deere to break up tough soil.
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Conflict between the United States and the United Kingdom
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It gave the people some power over the factory owners.
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Samuel Morse invented Morse code, a way to translate telegraphs.
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph which improved communication.
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It proposed that the newly accquired Mexican Cession lands be closed to slavery.
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The Free Soil Party was a short lived political party.
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Ended the Mexican American War
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Cyrus McCormick invented the Mechanical Reaper which revolutionized farming
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The Republican Party was organized in 1854
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Sumner beats Brooks with a cane in the Senate Chamber.
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Civil War breaks out in Kansas which gave it the name Bleeding Kansas.
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Armed Ruffians were campaigning in Baltimore for their anit-immigrant candidate
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A slave named Dred Scott tried to sue his own because he claimed, since he lived in Free states, he we free. Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that slaved weren’t allowed to sue and that congress could not outlaw slavery.
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The causes for this panic were inflation caused by California gold, over-production of grain, and over-speculation in land and railroads.
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Kansas was finally able to apply for statehood, so they wrote up the Lecompton Constitution where is can be passed with or without slavery. It was soon rejected in 1857.
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The tariff of 1857 was created because of the panic of 1857.
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Douglas won the 1858 senate election due to the debates with Lincoln.
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Lincoln and Douglas do a series of debated where Lincoln ask Douglas a question that ultimately ruined his chanced for president.
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Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election due to the debates with Douglas.
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The North got California amitted as a free state
