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Christopher Columbus started out and Spain and ended up landing on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador. He was in route to Asia but ended on the Bahamas.
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Slavery was introduced to the colony in Virginia. Twenty five Africans were brought to Jamestown Virginia
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A series of military engagements that Britain and France were involved in, in North America. This war was the American phase of the seven years war. It ended in the Treaty of Paris.
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Act by the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a tax on the 13 Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.
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Took place in Boston it started as a riot in the streets which turned into a brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly became a chaotic bloody slaughter. The conflict escalated the anti-Britain sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.
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The constitution was ratified on this date. It is a set of fundamental principles. It is a set of precedent that states and groups must follow as laws.
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The constitution was ratified on this date. It is a set of fundamental principles. It is a set of precedent that states and groups must follow as laws.
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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and George Washington pushed for a federal system. This was in their attempt to balance order and liberty
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States. The Whiskey tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal Government.
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Republicanism is a political ideology that is based upon citizenship in a state organized as a republic, which the people hold popular sovereignty.
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The Indian Removal Act,was signed into law by president Andrew Jackson. The law made it that the president negotiate with Southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory.
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Rebellion of colonists from the United Sates and Mexican Americans. because they didn't want to o accept the governmental changes mandated by "Siete Leyes" which placed almost total power in the hands of the Mexican national government and Santa Anna.
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When Texas became a independent state. Yet the United States did not allow it into the union.
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American Civil war between the North and south, fighting on the topic of slavery and whether or not free slaves should be given equal rights
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was the first battle of the civil war. In the end the confederates came out with the victory.
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enabling those who settled on undeveloped 160-acre of land to have a title after meeting certain criteria, for example such as residing on and cultivating the land for 5 years after.
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On this date Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Which freed slaves in the states in which had succeeded
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Largest battle in the Civil War, aswell as the largest battle in North America General Robert E. Lee's was defeated by the Army of the Potomac forced his Confederate forces to retreat; they never recovered.
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First act/law to affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
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Women's suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association. It was created to push for the equal opportunities and acceptance for a woman
