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1492
Columbus discovers America
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Settlement of Jamestown
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The French and Indian War
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Boston Tea Party
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
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The Battle of Yorktown
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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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Mexican American War
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Compromise of 1850
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Firing on Fort Sumter
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Organization of the Standard Oil Trust
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The Emancipation Proclimation
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13th Amendment Passed
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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Lincoln's assassination
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14th Amendment Passed
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Andrew Jackson's impeachment
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15th Amendment Passed
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Telephone invented
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Homestead Strike
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Pullman Strike
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Spanish-American War
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Airplane invented
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Electric lightbulb invented