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English colony at Jamestown Virginia
100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease, and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure. Info from History.com Article Link
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Salem Witch Trials
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Puritans believed that to become bewitched a witch must draw an individual under a spell. The girls could not have possibly brought this condition onto themselves. Soon they were questioned and forced to name their tormentors. Any birthmarks, warts, moles, or other blemishes were seen as possible portals through which satan could enter a body. -
Boston Massacre
Article Link Info is from ushistory.com. This was basically a "patriot" mob and British souldiers throwing things at eachother in the street. No one liked British soldiers in Boston. A British officer, Captain Thomas Preston, called in additional soldiers, and these too were attacked, so the soldiers fired into the mob, killing 3 on the spot. -
Boston Tea Party
Watch This Podcast Article Link Info is from history.com The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
The Declaration of Independence
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The Continental Congress wrote a declaration that summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence and they were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain -
Trail of Tears
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Info is from history.com The federal government forced the Native Americans to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River and this was a deadly journey. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Article Link Info is from history.com. Lincoln beat Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. -
1898-Spanish American War
Article link Info is from history.state.gov.The war secured US power in the Pacific and the war enabled the United States to establish its predominance in the Caribbean region and to pursue its strategic and economic interests in Asia. -
1914-Panama Canal opens
Article link Info is from history.com. The American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. vessel Ancon, a cargo and passenger ship.
