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Dispute over Texas & southern border with Mexico

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Christopher Columbus discovers new world  

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Christopher Columbus discovers new world  

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Launched centuries of European exploration and colonization of the American continent.

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Christopher Columbus discovers new world

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Destroyed the Aztec empire, and the Spanish began to consolidate control over what became the colony of New Spain

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The first English attempt at a permanent and stable English settlement in North America. It failed.

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War that pitted Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies. Paved the way for additional English settlements

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The first popular uprising in the American colonies. It was long viewed as an early revolt against English tyranny

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Part of the Seven Years' War in Europe. Britain and France fought for control of the Ohio Valley and Canada. The colonies fought under British commanders. Britain eventually won, and gained control of all of the remaining French possessions in Canada.

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A group of colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773.

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A Philadelphia meeting that brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts."

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A resolution created by the Continental Congress, which broke all ties between colonists and the British, creating the idea in America that the colonies were now "states."

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An uprising of rural, indebted farmers in western Massachusetts, against Boston creditors. It began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation.

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A Philadelphia meeting that brought together representatives form each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

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Printed in newspapers, this was largely a warning against political parties and permanent foreign alliances.

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A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars

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A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.

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General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg

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Americans moving away from self-sufficient agriculture to production of goods for sale

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Congress admitted Maine as a free state in 1820 so that Missouri would become a slave state and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36 30, the southern boundary of Missouri

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Supreme Court ruled enslaved people are property

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Lincoln freed slaves in Confederate states only

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Surrender of Lee to Grant, April 9, 1865

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Lincoln shot by Booth at Ford’s Theatre

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Period after Civil War to rebuild the South

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A labor protest rally in Chicago turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing

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A violent strike in Pittsburgh over a decision to cut wages by nearly 20%. This strike ended with the destruction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers, one of the largest unions at the time

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A nonviolent strike that brought down the railway system in most of the West over wages. President Cleveland shut it down because it was interfering with mail delivery

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U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites

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A novel by Upton Sinclair that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago

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Battleship exploded in Havana Harbor; used as excuse for war with Spain.

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U.S. won and gained Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and alliance with Cuba.

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Uprising in China against foreign influence; suppressed by international force.

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Started with assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; 20 million deaths.

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British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat; 128 Americans died.

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Decade of consumerism, technology, and cultural expression.

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Ban on alcohol manufacture and sale.

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Economic crisis beginning with stock market crash.

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FDR’s programs for relief, recovery, and reform.

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Global war; U.S. entered after Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.