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When the London Company sent out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20. -
Until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, few colonists in British North America objected to their place in the British Empire.
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This movement occurred in both the Continental Congress during the Revolution and at the local and state levels.
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During this period, the small republic founded by George Washington's generation became the world's largest democracy.
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The northern and southern states had become less and less alike - socially, economically, politically.
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In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant.
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The progressives, as they called themselves, worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live.
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On July 31, Congress established the United States Customs Service.
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On December 15, 1791, Articles Three–Twelve, having been ratified by the required number of states, became Amendments 1–10 of the Constitution.
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Established the principle of judicial review.