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Period: to
Beginnings to 1877
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First slaves taken
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Mayflower Compact
They agreed that majority ruled -
Pilgrims
James town -
French and Indian War
Americans and British won -
British Stamp Act
Tea Act -
First battles of American Revolution
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Articles of Confederation
First government -
Declaration of Independence
Rights and Freedom -
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point. French helped out -
Battle of Yorktown
Last battle of American Revolution -
Treaty of Paris
End revolutionary war -
Federalist papers
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Louisisana Purchase
Achieve manifest destiny -
Missouri Compromise
Brought Missouri as a free state -
nullification crisis
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compromise of 1850
Slave Act -
Kansas and Nebraska act
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civil war
Split the North and South up -
Amancapation Proclamation
Changes the goals of the war -
13 Amendment
Abolished slavery