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1494
The Discovery of America by Columbus
when he landed on an island in the Bahamas that he named San Salvador. Columbus was the first European to see the Bahamas and Hispaniola, -
The Settlement of Jamestown
was established in 1607
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the French and Indian war
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, -
The Declaration of Independence
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The Battle of Yorktown
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The Constitutional Convention
a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 14 to September 17, 1787, where delegates debated and revised the Articles of Confederation to create the United States Constitution -
The invention of the cotton gin
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The Louisiana Purchase
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The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
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The War of 1812
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The Missouri Compromise
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Andrew Jackson’s Election
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The Trail of Tears
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The invention of the telegraph
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The Panic of 1837
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The Mexican-American War
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The Compromise of 1850
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The Firing on Fort Sumter
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
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Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
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the Spanish-American war
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president