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The Declaration of Independence was signed on this day.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the United States first constitution on this day.
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This is the day when British general charles cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia.
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On this date, rebels with Shay's Rebellion attacked Springfield Armory. They were driven away with cannon fire.
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The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operationg under the Articles of Confederation following Independence from Great Britain.
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New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution.
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The Bill of rights was approved on this date.
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The Cotton Gin was an invention that made cleaning cotton fifty times faster. The Cotton Gin made it much more profitable to have slaves.
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Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase from May 14, 1804, and returned on September 23, 1806. Amazingly, only one man died duing the whole expedition.
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The first textile mill of Lowell, Massachusets was owned by the Merrimack Manafacturing Company.
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The Trails of Tears was the forced removal of the Cherokee from their land. This act was ordered by President Andrew Jackson.
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On January 24, 1848, James Marshall found flakes of gold at Sutters Mill, which is in California. This discovery, though kept secret at first, started the California gold rush.
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This treaty, ended the Mexican-American War. It also added an additional 52,000 square miles to the United States.
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This date was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter during the Civil War.
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This is the infamous battle of the civil was between the Union and the Confederates.
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This was a battle between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapho Tribes against the 7th calvary regiment of the United States Army.
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The Great Depression was the deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world.
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Apollo 11 brought the first humans to the moon.
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Two planes were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the twin towers.
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I was born on April 29, 2002.
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This is when the first black president was put into office.