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Oct 12, 1492
Discovery of america by cristopher columbus
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Settlement of jamestown
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French and indian war
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Boston tea party
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The battle of lexington and concord
Started the revolutionary war -
The declaration of independance
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The battle of yorktown
End of the revolutionary war -
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The constitutional conventions
The debates and discussions leading to the constitution's creation -
The invention of the cotton gin
The invention of the cotton gin is patented -
The alien Act
An act concerning aliens (not space ones, foreigners from other countries) was put in place -
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sedition Act timespan
How long the sedition Act lasted -
The louisiana purchase
-The US bought Louisiana for $15 million, which that was in old time cash so it costed more than that
-We acquired 828k sq. miles of land, expanding westward and doubling in size -
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The war of 1812
-A war between the US and indiginous people against britian and spain (although spain did not do much)
-We lost, Britain defended the colonies. -
The missouri compromise
-A compromise to balance slave and non-slave states in the US, by making slavery banned above the 36degree 30' latitude line. -
Andrew Jackson's election
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The trail of tears
-The slow "Cleaning" of all indigenous north American tribes from US territory. was pretty slow and gradual -
The panic of 1837
-Banks ran out of gold and silver, then the economy crashed -
The invention of the telegraph
-First message with telegraphs also sent -
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The mexican-american war
The US declared war on mexico and took territory -
The compromise of 1850
-5 different bills passed by the US congress to settle disputes about slavery in the new territories from the Mexican war -
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The firing on fort sumter
-First engagement in the civil war, and start of it. Rebels won the first fight. -
The emancipation proclamtion
-Declares that all slaves in the rebel states shall be set free -
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The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment
-All three of these amendments were adopted over time from 1865 to 1870 -
Surrender at appomattox courthouse
-The end of the civil war when general Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his army to the union. -
Abraham lincoln's assassination
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Andrew Johnson's impeachment
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The invention of telephones
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The invention of electric light
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The organization of standard oil trust
-The combination of oil companies in the US into one big company -
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homestead strike
-Two large scale worker strikes that disrupted railways because of no workers and revealed unfair management in their companies -
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The pullman strike
-Two large scale worker strikes that disrupted railways because of no workers and revealed unfair management in their companies -
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The spainish-american war
-The US joins the war for Cuba's independence against spain -
Theodore roosevelt becomes president
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The invention of airplanes
-Wilbur and orville wright made the first short flights with air planes