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Plymouth Colony
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Britain gains control of territory
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Colonists closes down Boston harbour
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American Revolution
George Washington leads Continental Army to fight against British rule. -
Declaration of Independence
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Battle of Yorktown.
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Treaty of Paris.
Britain accepts loss of colonies -
New constitution for United States of America
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George Washington elected first president of USA.
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France sells Louisiana territories to USA.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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War of 1812 between the US and Britain,
Partly over the effects of British restrictions on US trade during the Napoleonic Wars. -
US acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory
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Abraham Lincoln elected president.
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Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free. -
Lincoln is assassinated
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US gains Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and Cuba following the Spanish-American war.
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Women given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Congress gives indigenous people right to citizenship.
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The Wall Street crash
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Japanese warplanes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii
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US drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Truman Doctrine
US enunciates policy of aid for nations it deems threatened by communism -
President John F Kennedy assassinated
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Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King assassinated.
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.