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the American Revolutionary war. A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris. ending the war and formally granting the United States independence from Great Britain The American revolutionary war (April 19, 1775 to September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War was fought to secure U.S. independence from Great Britain. The way this event leads to the civil by causing tension between states.

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in Order to form a more perfect Union the founding fathers wrote and sighned the constitution  we have 10 Constitutional rights and  39 people sighned the Constitution, the founding fathers one of which was Thomas Jefferson. This is a key event of the early 19th because it shows that we have freedom and that the slaves should have had freedom.

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the cotton gin was created in 1794 and was a key event in history because at that time when slavery was slowly dying down but then when the gin was created it demaded more slaves to work there so the number of slaves went up again.

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Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801 after president John Adams. He was a spokes person for democracy and a founding farther he was also the third president of the united sates. The way Thomas Jefferson effected the civil war is the work he did before and the choices he made in the south and the effect he had on slavery

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Fast Facts on President Thomas Jefferson

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1802 return of the Louisiana territory  

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1802 return of the Louisiana territory  

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In 1802 king Charles IV of Spain returned the Louisiana territory to France and revoked Americas port access. This is a key event because without them returning this territory we would have never been able to get it and double the size of the united states

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Negotiation of the Louisiana territory of 1803

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Negotiation of the Louisiana territory of 1803

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In 1803 under the threat of war president Jefferson and James Monroe successfully negotiated a deal with France to purchase the Louisiana territory which included about 827,000 square miles- for 15 million. The main reason they wanted the Louisiana territory is because they wanted to have new Orleans. This is a key event in history because if we did not end up getting this territory we would have not doubled the size of the united states.

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Louisiana Purchase - Thomas Jefferson Achievements - One Minute History

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Lewis and Clark led a historic expedition in the early 1800s (1804). They were tasked by president Thomas Jefferson to map out the Louisiana territory. They were in search for a water way to connect to the pacific ocean and they journed 8,000 miles for two years. Before they began the journey Jefferson sent Lewis to Philadelphia to study map making. On October 1803 Lewis and Clark trained volunteers and stocked up on supplies, while Lewis was studying maps Clark studied rocks, soil, etc. While traveling they incounterd many tribes and they saw them as a threat so they hired Sacagaweas husband and then they hired her and she spoke for them to let the tribes know they were not a threat. this is a key event in history because if Lewis and Clark never went on this expedition we might not have ever known what was in the Louisiana territory.

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The War of 1812 pitted the young United States in a war against Great Britain, from whom the American colonies had won their independence in 1783. In Britain's effort to control the world's oceans, the British Royal Navy encroached upon American maritime rights and cut into American trade during the Napoleonic Wars. This is a key event in history because there were three major empacts.

for one England prevented trade with other countries.

two England impressed sailors and forced them into the British Navy.

and number three is England encouraged the Native Americans to attack sailors.

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this negotiation divided the land with the British. This is a key event because it helps get more land and they were able to peacefully negotiate the territory.

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Nat Turner staged a slave rebellion and more than 50 white people were killed. This is a key event because is shows that people cared about the slaves and wanted it to stop.

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Skull of Slave Rebellion Leader Nat Turner

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Nat Turner - Slave Rebellion 1800-1831 (African American History)

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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/africnetwork/ facebook https://www.facebook.com/Africnetwork... Twitter https://twitter.com/AfricNetwork Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfricNetwork?... Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 white people.

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In the 1700s  Alamo was built as a home to Spanish missionaries. Over time, the mission was turned into a fort for Spanish soldiers who called the fort the "Alamo." In the 1820s, American settlers arrived in San Antonio and began to settle in the area. Battle of Alamo was fought between the Republic of Texas and Mexico from February 23, 1836 to March 6, 1836. It took place at a fort in San Antonio. Texas called the Alamo. The Mexicans won the battle, killing all of the Texan soldiers inside the fort. This event effected the civil war by when the war did happen they kept on supplying southern forces

Read more at: https://www.ducksters.com/history/us_1800s/battle_of_the_alamo.php

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Battle of The Alamo 1836 (Texas Revolution)

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the Oregon trail is a major trail that people took to go west. many people died of starvation, drowning, frost bite, insoumnia. many of these people traveled in wagon trains using covered wagons to carry there belongings. The Oregon Trail began in Independence Missouri and it ended in Oregon City. This is a key event in history because it helped people move west from over populated east

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manifest destiny in where people belives that it was there god givin right to move west. Expansion of the boundries of the united states westward to the pacific and beyond

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this is where Texas declared its independence. Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 and became the 28th state. this was a key event because it one meant we got another state and it played a role in the Mexican American war.

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The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the united states and Mexico. It went on from from April 1846 to February 1848. It went from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim). This war affected the civil war by Territories being obtained in the Mexican American War of 1848 caused further sectional strife over the expansion of slavery in the ante bellum period. The ideological seeds of the American Civil War, in turn, were sown during that conflict.

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What Was the Mexican-American War? | History

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in this event the president negotiated with Britan to divide the oregon country. This is a key event in history because if the president did not do this this land would have never been divided and we not have had it at that time or know

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The discovery of gold is the begining of the Californa in 1849. By August 1848, 4,000 gold miners were in the area, and within a year about 80,000 “forty-niners” (as the fortune seekers of 1849 were called)  A replica of Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. during construction  of the mill, gold was discoverd, which triggered a gold rush. This is a key event because it was another way of reciving gold and or a way of money but also  The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.

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The California Gold Rush cartoon 1849 (The Wild West)

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September 18, 1850, Fugitive Slave Act provides for the return of slaves brought to free states. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. the act required that slaves be returned to their oweners. this event effected the civil war by Tensions between the North and South quickly increased, leading to the eventual secession of the South and the ensuing Civil War.

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negotiated with Mexico for spending 10 million on a small trip. this effected the civil war by The transaction with Mexico was controversial, and it intensified the simmering conflict over enslavement and helped to inflame the regional differences that eventually led to the Civil War.

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In the United States, the election of abolitionist Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860 led to the secession of the southern states in the form of the Confederate States of America. The victory of the Union and subsequent abolition of slavery would contribute to the decline of the global slave trade. this effected the civil war by when Abraham Lincoln became president is caused the outbreak for the civil war. Also what happend with slavery effected the way the civil war happend

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The Election of 1860 and the Start of the Civil War