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US History 1607 - 1877
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Jamestown was founded during 1607 as a permanent settlement of the English and during 1619 the first slaves arrived at Jamestown essentially turning it into a slave colony and a cash crop colony dependent on a slave and tobacco economy.,
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The Navigation Act was first passed in October of 1651 by Parliament, to prevent any trade perceived trade deficits and decrease in profits banning any foreign trade to the colonies.
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The French and Indian War starts bringing the 13 colonies together in support of the British and against the French in hopes of expansion westward and access to more resources.
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The Treaty of Paris left France void of its territories in North America had allowed British troops to occupy the Ohio River Valley
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The Proclamation of 1763 had made it illegal for Americans to settle past the Appalachian Mountains upsetting many settlers
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The Townshend Acts were put in place as a tax on paper, glass, paint, and lead.This was met with fierce resistance and protests being the Boston Massacre
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The Molasses Act was put in place protect British West Indies exports to the Americas and to prevent competition from Spanish and French colonies in the West Indies.
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The Tea Act was placed to grant the East India Company exclusive license to import and distribute tea to the American colonies. Thus raising the initial price of all sources in the colonies.
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The Boston Tea Party was committed by the Sons of Liberty as a act of defiance against the Tea Act disguised as Mohawk Warriors
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First colonial gathering to protest English policies led by mainly revolutionaries such as Sam Addams, Ben Franklin,etc.; example for later American government
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Lexington and Concord were the first two battles of the Revolutionary War and had resulted in a American victory.
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Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the war with the French officially giving support to the Americans in the war.
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The Articles of Confederation had been signed and ratified making the first system of government for America, however it had easily run into troubles as the government didn't have enough power to regulate any branch.
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The battle of Yorktown had lead to British defeat and the second treat of Paris was signed ending the British control of the 13 colonies
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A convention was held to improve the Articles of Confederation called the Constitutional Convention, though arguments took place between Federalists and Anti-Feds eventually a bill of rights was formed to satisfy both forming a Constitution
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The Louisiana Purchase was established granting the US lands beyond the Mississippi and allowed for Westward expansion doubling the size of the US.
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A second war between Britain and the US broke out called the War of 1812 and had been caused due to British impeding on American ships, an embargo, and nationalism swelling through America.
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The Treaty of Ghent had been signed ending the war of 1812 settling the boundary between British-Canada and the US and returning any conquered territories.
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The Missouri Compromise had been signed leading to a balance of slave states and free states.It admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and barred slavery from the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' parallel.
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The panic of 1837 was a economic crash that the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up.
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Cherokee forced to move West; the Native Americans faced mass genocide due to the Indian Removal Act; it ended in 1850.
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The Mexican-American war had occurred due to the firing of troops at the Rio-Grande River and had included the Texas Revolution as well . Much of the cause of this war was to expand westward.
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The treaty that the ended the Mexican-American War which was known as the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo added 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Southwestern US.
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The Compromise of 1850 had attempted to create CA as a free state with TX as a slave state and the the federal government to assume it's debt and had proposed for popular sovereignty with NM and UT, and banned slave trade in DC.
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The Dredd Scott case had ruled that slaves did not rights in federal courts.
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Fort Sumter was attacked starting the Civil War, the war with the highest casualty rate in any war in American History
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The reconstruction started with the troops of the Union now occupying much of the unstable South dividing into provinces not states and had attempted to repair the South and improve the lives of former slaves.
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The battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War and had resulted in the war shifting as the Confederates had stopped pushing towards DC after this battle.
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The surrender at Appomattox court house by Confederate general Robert E. Lee had ended the war and had resulted in Union victory and made the South part of the Union and had to accept Union terms.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth ending Lincoln's presidency and transferred it to Andrew Johnson who was now in charge of the Reconstruction.
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The 13th amendment had been signed ending slavery forever.
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Six Confederate veterans created the KKK or Klu Klux Klan which was anti-minority/ant-african american group and had violent ways or carrying out their perceived way of preserving "Southern Honor" which included mass killing or raids.
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Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president of the US and had replaced Andrew Johnson after his immpeachment
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The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879
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In 1877 the reconstruction had ended with federal troops backing out and the South as states not provinces the Radical Republicans had given up and retreated from the South the reconstruction.
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Jim Crow laws were implemented bringing further segregation in the South for another 100 years.
