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Jun 9, 1492
columbus descovers america
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Period: Jun 9, 1492 to
US History Timeline 1492 - 2011
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Oct 3, 1497
John Cabot claims North America
In 1497,Cabot claims North America -
The Virginia colony of Roanoke Island
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Captain John Smith the explorer
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The first slaves imported into America
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Mayflower Compact
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First Public School
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First College
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North America's slave trade begins
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English Bill of Rights
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Ben Franklin - Lightning Rod
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French & Indian war
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Proclamation of 1763 by King George III
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The stamp act
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Stamp Act
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Santa Claus - Colonial America
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Revolutionary war
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Declaration of Independence
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Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves
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Articles of Confederation
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The Constitution
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Delaware
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Pennsylvania
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New Jersey
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Georgia
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Connecticut
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Massachusetts
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Maryland
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South Carolina
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New Hampshire
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Virginia June 25, 1788
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New York July 26, 1788
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George Washington
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North Carolina
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Rhode Island May 29, 1790
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census population 1790 - 4 million
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Vermont
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Kentucky
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Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin
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Tennessee
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John Adams
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census population 1800 - 5.3 million
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Thomas Jefferson
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Ohio
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12th Amendment
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James Madison
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census population 1810 - 7.2 million
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Louisiana Apr. 30, 1812
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The War of 1812
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Indiana
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James Monroe
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Mississippi
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Illinois
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Alabama Dec. 14, 1819
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Maine
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census population 1820 - 9.6 million
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Missouri
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John Quincy Adams
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Graham Cracker
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Andrew Jackson
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census population 1830 - 12.8 million
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Oberlin becomes the first college to accept Women
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First School to accept Blacks
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Texas Revolution
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Arkansas
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Michigan
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- U of M- Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837
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Martin Van Buren
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Indian Removal Act (trail of tears)
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Vulcanized Rubber - Charles Goodyear
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census population 1840 - 17 million
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William Henry Harrison
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John Tyler
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Florida
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Baseball - Alexander Cartwright
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James Knox Polk
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Texas
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Mexican-American War
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Iowa Dec. 28, 1846
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Doughnut
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Wisconsin
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Zachary Taylor
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California
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census population 1850 - 23 million
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Millard Fillmore
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Franklin Pierce
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Michigan State
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James Buchanan
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Minnesota
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Pencil Eraser - Hymen Lipman
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Oregon
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census population 1860 - 31.4 million
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Repeating Rifle - Benjamin Tyler Henry
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Kansas Jan. 29, 1861
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Machine Gun - Richard Gatling
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Abraham Lincoln
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American Civil War
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West Virginia
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Breakfast Cereal - James Caleb Jackson
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Nevada
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Andrew Johnson
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1865 - 13th Amendment
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Nebraska
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1868 - 14th Amendment
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American Football - Walter Camp
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Soccer - Princeton vs. Rutgers (6-4 Rutgers)
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
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census population 1870 - 38.6 million
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15th Amendment
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African Americans’ Right to Vote
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Jeans - Levi Strauss
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Colorado
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Toilet Paper- Seth Wheeler
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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Light Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison
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census population 1880 - 50.1 million
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James Abram Garfield
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Chester Alan Arthur
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Grover Cleveland
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Coca-Cola - John S. Pemberton
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Softball - George Hancock
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Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
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North Dakota
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South Dakota
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Montana
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Washington
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Idaho
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Wyoming
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census population 1890 - 62.9 million
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Stop Sign - William Phelps Eno
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CMU
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Radio - Nikola Tesla
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Grover Cleveland
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Volleyball
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Utah
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William McKinley
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1900 - 76.2 million
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Oldsmobile - Ransom E. Olds
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Assembly Line - Henry Ford
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Oklahoma Nov. 16, 1907
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William Howard Taft
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1910 - 92.2 million
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New Mexico
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Arizona
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17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)
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16th Amendment (Income Tax)
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Woodrow Wilson
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World War 1
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18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol)
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19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote
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census population 1920 - 106 million
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Calvin Coolidge
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Television - Philo T. Farnsworth
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Bubble Gum - Walter Diemer “Double Bubble”
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Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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census population 1930 - 123 million
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Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker
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21st Amendment - Repeal 18th amendment
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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20th Amendment - Jan. 20 inauguration
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Soft Serve Ice Cream
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World War 2
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census population 1940 - 132 million
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Harry S. Truman
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Cable TV
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Video Game
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Korean War
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census population 1950 - 151 million
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22nd Amendment - 2 term limit for President.
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Barcode
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Dwight David Eisenhower
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Video Tape
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Alaska
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Hawaii
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Vietnam War
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census population 1960 - 179.3 million
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23rd Amendment - Wash. D.C. representation
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Computer Mouse
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24th Amendment - poll taxes illegal
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1964 - Buffalo Wings
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Minicomputer
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CD
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25th Amendment - presidential succession
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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census population 1970 - 203 million
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26th Amendment - 18 as voting age
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Email
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Cell Phone
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Gerald Rudolph Ford
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James Earl Carter, Jr
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census population 1980 - 226.5 million
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Laptop
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Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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Persian Gulf War
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census population 1990 - 248.7 million
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27th Amendment - Congress salary changes take place in next term.
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William Jefferson Clinton
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census population 2000 - 281.4 million
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Invasion of Afghanistan
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George Walker Bush
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iPod
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Invasion of Iraq
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Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-
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census population 2010 - 308.7 million
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1791 - Bill of Rights
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1927 - Kool Aid