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Oct 9, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
Columbus finding america was important because he discovered a new world. -
The Settlement of Jamestown
It was the first permanent English colony in Virginia. The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, a group of investors who hoped to profit from the venture. The colony was named after King James 1 -
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The French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Year War, the French and Indian War marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. A general arose and helped defeat France and that man was our first president, George Washington. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was a protest against the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773.The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000 -
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities. Many battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain -
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The Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War -
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The Constitutional Convention
The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States. All states were invited to send delegates. The convention, meeting in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. -
The invention of the cotton gin
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In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Signed into law by President John Adams, the Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. These acts increased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years, authorized the president to imprison or deport aliens considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" and restricted speech critical of the government -
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The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist.Of course, Alexander Graham Bell is the was the first to invent the telephone in 1876. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was when United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France for 15 million. This is known as one of the most important achievements of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. -
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The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom. Peace negotiations began in late 1814, but slow communication across the Atlantic prolonged the war and also led to numerous tactical errors for both sides -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
Jackson defeated Adams and became the nation’s seventh president. As America’s political party system developed, Jackson became the leader of the new Democratic Party. A supporter of states’ rights and slavery’s extension into the new western territories, -
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The Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until 1843. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. -
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Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
The invention of the telegraph
Developed in the 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland; by 1866, a telegraph line had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe.This is important because this was an easier way to communicate and way faster. -
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The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was between Mexico and America over foreign soil. Mexico lost the war and signed a treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo. It called for Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, including what is now Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah, in exchange for fifteen million dollars in war compensation. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished -
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The Firing on Fort Sumter
When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
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The Civil War
The civil war was the bloodiest war ever. It was a battle between Lincoln and Davis" presidencies. The north wanted to abolish slaves but the south wanted to keep slaves. This is important because the union won and slavery was abolished ,but even though slaves were free they were still discriminated. -
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The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states shall be free. Even though Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, it was an important turning point in the war, transforming the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom. -
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. This is important because it meant that slaves now had rights and were considered "real people." -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Lee originally wanted to keep fighting by gathering more troops ,but his plans came to an end w\when he lost the battle at Appomattox Court House. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
A famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
Three days after Johnson's dismissal of Stanton, the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors but one week later, the House adopted eleven articles of impeachment against the President. The house of representatives could not achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to convict him. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Trust by trading stockholders' shares for trust certificates. The trust was designed to allow Rockefeller and other Standard Oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another. -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
Workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut. It ended in a total defeat for the workers. -
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The Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.The war officially ended four months later,but U.S. and Spanish governments signed the Treaty of Paris on December 10. -
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt confronted the bitter struggle between management and labor head-on and became known as the great “trust buster."
