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Aug 3, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
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Period: Oct 1, 1492 to
US History
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The Settlement of Jamestown
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The French and Indian War
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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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 telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations -
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 Mexican-American War
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the Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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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, telephone, and airplane
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The invention of the electric light,
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
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The Spanish-American War
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The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
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The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
