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The first permanent settlement in the Americas.
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Began due to disagreements on whether the Ohio River valley belonged to the British Empire or the French Empire.
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An act of protest against Britain's taxation.
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The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Yorktown "virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution."
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The point of the Constitutional Convention was to determine how America would be governed.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts "raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, authorized the President to deport aliens, and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime."
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America purchased 827,000 sqaure miles from France for $15,000,000.
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"Fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights."
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Allowed Missouri admission as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that started a major depression that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up.
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Allowed for cross-country communication among citizens.
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Caused by the annexation of Texas.
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Allowed California to become a state.
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The bombardment of Fort Sumter which prompted the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln declared slaves free.
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Illegalized slavery, declared anyone born on U.S. soil a citizen, and illegalized denial of voting by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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"Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War."
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"Used a complicated organizational structure in his new company that allowed local and cross-country communication."
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Work stoppage caused by employees who refuse to work.
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America's support for the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
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