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Aug 3, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
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Settlement of Jamestown
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The French and Indian War
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Battle Of Lexington and Concord
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Declared Independence
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Congress approved the constitution
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Signed the document
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The Battle of Yorktown
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The Constitutional Conventon
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Patent of the Invention of the Cotton Gin
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Cotton Gin Granted the Patent
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The Alien and Sedition Acts
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Louisiana Purchase Treaty
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Louisiana Purchase was Signed
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The War of 1812
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The Missouri Comromise
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Andrew Jackson's Election
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Trail of Tears
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The Panic of 1837
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The Invention of the Telegraph
Used the first time from Washington to Baltimore saying"What hath God wrought?" -
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The Mexican-American War
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The Compromise of 1850
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Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President
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The Firing on fort Sumter
General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fired at Fort Sumter -
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The Emancipation proclamation
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The Firing on Fort Sumter
2:30 pm, Major Robert Anderson surrendered -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
10:15 pm (Eastern Standard Time) -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered -
13th Amendment
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Andrew Johnson Impeachment
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment Passed
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15th Amendment Ratified
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The Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell said to his assistant, Thomas Watson,"Mr. Watson--Come Here--I want to see you." -
The Invention of the Electric Light Bulb First Demo
Invented by Thomas Edison -
The Invention of the Electric Light Bulb: Everyone Gets the Invention
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The Homestead strike
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The Pullman Strike
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The Spanish-American War
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The Invention of the Airplane
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
The US supreme Court said that the act was too "Unreasonable"
