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13,000 BCE
First Humans to Enter North America
The first human to enter North America was able to live off from it and where they kept that land. -
1492
Christopher Columbus lands
He was never able to set foot on other lands because of his voyages where it was islands and he was exploring -
May 20, 1506
Christopher Colombus
He was the one who was able to complete his four voyages in his life -
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Mercantilism
Mercantilism is the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. Which they were to be trading with a lot of things from it. -
Jamestown
It was America's first permanent colony, which it was in Virginia in 1607 -
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Navigation Acts of 1651
The Navigation Acts of 1651, was aiming for the Dutch that required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels -
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The Enlightenment
it was when politics, philosophy, science, and communication were reoriented and that they changed the most part of it -
Benjamin Franklin
he was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States -
George Washington
He was the first president in the United States and he served as a founding father -
Thomas Jefferson
He was a Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a war that fought over the British America against those of New France -
The Proclamation of 1763
(Wikipedia) "The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains." -
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Stamp Act
It was meeting held consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies -
Andrew Jackson
He served and a soldier and that he the seventh president in United States -
Lewis and Clark
It is where they explore new lands and other things out there -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a tragic event when 5 men were shot during a protest and that they were protesting about taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a group of men disguised as Indians got onto a ship in the middle of the night and threw hundreds of boxes of tea off into the water below because of the taxes. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution had occurred because of how the 13 colonies wanted independences -
Deceleration of Independence
it was quoted that the 13 colonies were able to control their own colony without anyone's help -
United States Constitution Signed
it was written during the Philadelphia Convention and where Declaration of Independence was signed at too -
Louisiana Purchase
it was a land deal between the United States and France, which crosses over other states -
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Westward Expansion
In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase took place, doubling the size of the country and that more American came -
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark Expedition was also kind of like the westward Expedition. They travel to find new land to place. -
Abraham Lincoln
he was lawyer who served as the sixteenth president of the United States, and later on got killed by Booth -
Fredrick Douglass
he was an African-American, and he does social abolitionist, orator, reformer, writer, and statesman for the US -
Jacksonian Democracy
In the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man -
The Election of 1828
It was the 11th Presidential Election that took place in the U.S, that Andrew Jackson won the election. -
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Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist Movement was movement that a social and political push for the immediate emancipation of all slaves -
Indian Removal Act
It was about how Andrew Jackson signed on that day and year and which he authorized that Southern Indian Tribes had to move westward so they can have protection -
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The Mexican American War
It was a war between Mexican and American for a land that the Mexican and that the American eventually won -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. -
Dred Scott Decision
A slave that had resided in a free state and territory and that the African American and the people of the US can never be citizen to each other -
Dred Scott
He is black man who is very important to the slaves and for there freedom and that he fought it -
Election of 1860
it was nineteenth presidential election to select the Vice President for the US -
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The Civil War
It was fought by the North and the South over slavery, which the North was able to win over it -
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Era of Reform
The Era of reform was a widespread area social activism and the political reform across US -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny was the expansion of the US throughout the American