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Colonial America
European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs. The Spanish were among the first Europeans to explore the New World and the first to settle in what is now the United States. -
The founding of Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. -
French and Indian War
This war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
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Revolutionary America Era
In the colonies struggle for independance workers and their interests played an important role in the success of the revolutionary movement. Workers uniting to better their conditions. -
American Revolutionary War
Revolutionary war was the conflict between Great Britain and its 13 colonies when they declared independant as the United States of America. 1775-1783 -
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Young Republic Era
The Young Republic Era started in 1789 and ended in 1814. The Articles of Confederation of 1781 said that each state would have sovereignty. Sadly the liberty people won from the British did not extend to the poor landless, women. -
George Washington 1789-1797
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Federalist Era
When the constitution was ratified people for it were Federalists, and people against it were Anti-Federalists -
John Adams 1797-1801
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Sectionalism
Sectionalism in america refered to the different lifestyles people in the North and South lived. -
Thomas Jerfferson 1801-1809
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Westward Expansion
Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. -
James Madison 1809-1817
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War of 1812
The war of 1812 was a military conflict lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland -
James Monroe 1817-1825
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Age of Jackson
If his election in 1828 launched the Age of Jackson. This stopped the era of good feelings. The age of jackson lasted until his death in 1845 -
John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
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Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
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Martin Van Buren 1837-1841
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James K. Polk
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Mexican American War
War between U.S and mexico from 1846 to 1847. War started by the United states and resulted in Mexico's defeat and half of its national territory in the north. -
Civil War
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Abrahan Lincoln 1861-1865
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Civil War
American civil war. This war was fought to determine the survival of the Union or independence feor the Confederacy -
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Reconstruction
Period right after the civil war in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union -
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
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End of Reconstruction
Immediately after the presidential election of 1876. Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes's election.
