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Oct 12, 1492
The Discovery of America by Colombus
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The Settlement of Jamestown
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The French and Indian War
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Declaration of Independence
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The Battle of Yorktown
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The Constitutional Convention
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The Invention of the cotton gin
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The Alien and Sedition Acts
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The Louisiana Purchase
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The War of 1812
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The Missouri Compromise
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Andrew Jackson's Election
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The Trail of Tears
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The Panic of 1837
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The invention of the telegraph
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The Mexican-American War
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The Compromise of 1850
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The Firing on Fort Sumter
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
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13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
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Surrender at Appomattox Couthouse
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Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
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Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
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The invention of the electric light, the telephone, and the airplane.
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
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The Spanish-American War
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president