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French and Indian War
The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies -
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Industrial Revolution
The transition to new manufacturing processes. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system. -
Boston Tea Party
Americans destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. -
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Revolutionary war.
A war between the colonies of America verses England. We won our independence with this war. After we wrote the declaration of independence and appointed George Washington a the president. -
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Writing of the Constitution
This is when they sat down and wrote out the constitution after the revolutionary war. -
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast. -
Missouri Compromise
It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri -
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Bleeding Kansas
a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas. -
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Civil War
The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. -
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Reconstruction Era
It was after the civil war when everyone was trying to learn how to live together after the bloody war. Alot of it was making sure former slaves were comfortable. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre.