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Columbus went out to sea for the first time.
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The year people started to live in Jamestown.
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The French and the Indians stopped fighting.
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American colonists and a British soldier started to shooting at each other.
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Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to near by concord in order to seize an arms cache.
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56 Delegates gathered together and signed the Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington was the General commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops to fight 9,000 British troops in Virginia.
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39 delegates signed the constitution representing 12 states in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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When George Washington was named the first President of the United States.
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The cotton gin is an invention made to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed.
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A land deal between the United States and France, which was 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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President Thomas Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to explore the land west of the Mississippi River.
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Thousands of Mexican troops came a over through the Alamo with only 200 Texan defenders.
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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John Wilkes Booth who was a famous actor shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's theater in Washington D.C.
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In the 19th century Fort McHenry was of little military value and after 110 years of service at the fort the City of Baltimore held the centennial celebration of the Battle of Baltimore.