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The point of the lewis and clark expedition was to find a trail to the pacific coastline, and to mark and draw all of the new plants and animals in the recently purchased land. this caused the us to move more westward marking westward expansion. which caused people to move west to be more like the cowboys in the cartoons and the books because it made the west seem perfect in every way.

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Zebulon pike sees the rocky mountains 1806 

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Zebulon pike sees the rocky mountains 1806 

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during the early parts of november general zebulon pike and his crew climb a tall mountain and he saw a super tall mountain which he named after himself pikes peak.

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the native american were being pushed off their land and they did not like it so they went to one of the american camps and attacked it. which led the americans to attack the women and children of one of the native american camps, which in turn led to the battle of tippecanoe which was lost by the native americans.

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during this time the states were deciding whether or not to become slave states so the missouri compromise was make which made missouri a slave state while simultaneously making maine a non-slave state keeping the balance between the slave and non-slave states.

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the erie canal is the longest man-made canal of its time which was used to move people and items upward and down river, it made travel much easier especially because around this time the first steam engine boats were being made.

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peter cooper designs the first locomotive 1830

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peter cooper designs the first locomotive 1830

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peter cooper designed the first steam locomotive or steam engine which is very helpful and caused people and goods to be transported across the vast plains and hills of the usa very fast.

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The Indian Removal Act was approved by President Andrew Jackson. in turn making it so that he could give indians land that was west of the mississippi river in exchange for land that they had inside the states.

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during this time people were moving into the texas area which was still owned by the mexican government and the mexicans where ok with this at first but after a while they started to tax and force laws on the texans so they revolted and the battle was started, it lasted 13 days and in the end texas won and became its own country for a little bit and then was like "hey can we become americans" and the usa said yes so then texas became a state.

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after the usa got texas the mexican-american war started because mexico still wanted texas and america wanted more of the land that mexico had so the war started and it was ultimately won by the americans who got all of the land.

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the mormons who were looking for a place to settle, found the great salt lake in utah and thought it was a good place for the church of jesus christ. causing more mormons to move to utah to find the church.

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during this time there was a lot of gold found in california causing the california gold rush. where people were coming from everywhere hoping to strike rich but sadly most of the people did not strike rich.

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the supreme court decided to uphold slavery in the united states and denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to not be in use.
because of this dred scott tried and tried to fight it but he ultimately lost and he ended up in jail

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in the election were 4 people: abraham lincoln, john breckinridge, john bell, and stephen douglas all of them for different parties. during this election abraham lincoln was going with the ban on slavery for his votes, and using that he won by a landslide getting more electoral and popular votes than any of the other 3 candidates.

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during this time the southern states had seceded and decided to make the confederate states just so that they can keep slavery. they were close enough that they decided to start firing at a union fort nearby which was ft. sumter, the president said not to fire back because he did not want to spark a war but after a while it got too bad and they fired back sparking the civil war.

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President Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, announcing on September 22, 1862, that if the confederates did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, all slaves in the seceded states would be free.

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during the civil war the confederates met with the union and had a massive battle, one of the biggest in the war. this turned out to be a crushing defeat for the confederates. at the end of it all the confederacy suffered 28,000 casualties while the union suffered 23,000 casualties, marking one of the most casualties in one a single battle in US history.

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in the appomattox court house robert e. lee signed the papers saying that he had given up and the confederate army surrendered. this caused the union to be remade and the slaves in the south to be free. this also caused the states to un-secede and the union to start rebuilding th usa.

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after the civil war lincoln had an idea to give black americans and slaves right and the ability to vote. sadly he never got to see it through because he got killed by john wilkes booth. but andrew johnson and ulysses s. grant saw it through and make the 15th amendment for slaves and black americans to have rights.

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at little bighorn river, custer and his men were ambushed by the sioux warriors and they were badly outnumbered, but they still fought back. because of this custer and his men were found dead along with their horses.

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invention of the electric powered vacuum cleaner 1901

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invention of the electric powered vacuum cleaner 1901

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In 1907 a janitor in ohio named James Murray Spangler invented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner. this caused people to not only like cleaning but it led the way for many more electronic vacuums to come.

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during this time it was very rare that people would have cars and if they did they were very hard to make, so henry ford took that and made the model T the first assembly line car ever. this made it so much cheaper and faster to make cars that a lot more people owned them after a little while.

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Carl Benz made the first vehicle powered by a gas engine. it was called the Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1. which was a huge breakthrough in the automobile world because it was the first non-horse drawn carriage and it was super popular, all of the rich people had one and it caused the starting point for many cars to come.

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first electrical generating station 1882

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first electrical generating station 1882

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On September 30 the world's first hydroelectric power plant was opened on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. The plant was used for powering the different electronic items around it. this caused people to make bigger and better ones.

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this time was the first time that the airplane had been successful the wright brothers had spent years trying to make a man fly and finally they did it, this caused travel to be way faster.

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thomas edison invents the phonograph 1878

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thomas edison invents the phonograph 1878

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The technology that made the modern music business possible was invented in New Jersey where Thomas Edison created the first device to both record sound and play it back. this led to modern music being possable.

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alexander graham bell invents the telephone 1876

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alexander graham bell invents the telephone 1876

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alexander invented the telephone in 1876 which was a huge achievement for him because it was able to communicate over long distances. this led to it being remade over and over until the modern day phone was made.

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the Flatiron Building was one of New York's first skyscrapers, it was also the first steel-skeleton structure skyscrapers. The structural engineers reinforced the frame to ensure that the slender building would withstand any gusts of wind. this led to bigger buildings everywhere

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At Yalta, the leaders of the soviet union, usa, and british agreed that after Germany's surrender it would be divided into four zones controlled by U.S., British, French and Soviet union. The city of Berlin would also be divided into similar zones.

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the marshall plan was a Plan that assisted in European economic recovery in order for them to rebuild and also so they would owe us in the next wars or other worldwide struggles.

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La violencia was a ten-year civil war in columbia from 1948 to 1958, between the colombian conservative party and the colombian liberal party, that started with the assassination of jorge eliecer the liberal party candidate.

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On may 14 1948 the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved the following proclamation, declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. Right after this in the same year 5 arab nations tryd to invade.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or nato were officially laid down on april 4th 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty. together they made a pact that they would prevent the spread of communism from the soviet union

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Following the Chinese Civil War and victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces caused Chiang Kai-shek to flee to Taiwan, Mao Zedong then proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China

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The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet weapons, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. and helped them push north korea almost to nothing but china came to help and they pushed back and it pretty much stayed still for a while.

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armas stages coup to control guatemala 1954

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armas stages coup to control guatemala 1954

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As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the United States made decisions on foreign policy with the goal of containing communism. To maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. intervened in Guatemala in 1954 and removed its elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, on the premise that he was soft on communism.

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The Warsaw pact was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries to help the spread of communism

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Between November 4th and 8th 1956, Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered the Red Army to put down the Hungarian Uprising by force. Soviet troops attacked and abolished the independent national government. Hungary was immediately subjected to merciless repression, and hundreds of thousands of Hungarians fled to the West.

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The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt in the mid 1950's. It was led by Fidel Castro against the government of Fulgencio Batista. The revolt took place between 1953 and 1959.

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June 11, 1963 - Alabama governor George Wallace personally attempts to block African American students from registering at the University

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June 11, 1963 - Alabama governor George Wallace personally attempts to block African American students from registering at the University

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Also known as little rock nine because nine african american kids tried to go to little rock high school but, Governor George Wallace sent the special forces to prevent them and guard the school because he did not like the new integration law that was added by the president. Soon Eisenhower heard about this and he sent the army to escort them into the school.

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Dec 1955 Montgomery Bus boycott - launched in, Alabama, after Rosa parks is arrested 

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Dec 1955 Montgomery Bus boycott - launched in, Alabama, after Rosa parks is arrested 

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during the beginning of integration black people were not allowed on the white seats of the bus, but rosa parks sat in a white seat and would not let a person sit there. She ended up being arrested and causing any and all african american to walk everywhere as a peaceful protest.

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February 1960 Sit-in protest - movement begins at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and spreads to the nation.

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February 1960 Sit-in protest - movement begins at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and spreads to the nation.

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In Greensboro North Carolina four african amarican college students refuse to leave a white people only lunch counter at a popular retail store after they were denied service.

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April 3 - May 10 1963 - Police arrest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham Alabama and then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers

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April 3 - May 10 1963 - Police arrest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham Alabama and then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers

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on april 3rd hundreds of thousands of people walked, in protest down a busy street and for miles. To put a stop to this police sent attack dogs and sprayed fire hoses on to people as they walked by and they got trampled by horses causing lots of injury

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August 28, 1963 - March on Washington. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

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August 28, 1963 - March on Washington. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

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on this day people marched on washington to help with civil rights and martin luther king jr. gave his famous" i have a dream speech". This caused a huge uprising in civil rights activists.

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July 2, 1964 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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July 2, 1964 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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when Johnson signed the act it prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. this caused integration to move faster.

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February 21, 1965 - Civil Rights leader Malcolm X is murdered

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February 21, 1965 - Civil Rights leader Malcolm X is murdered

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malcolm x was assassinated while giving a speech by 3 gunman causing a big uprise in the action of civil rights.
the 3 gunman where from islam because he had a sort of rivalry with them.

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August 6, 1965 - President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning prerequisite to voting such as fees and literacy tests

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August 6, 1965 - President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning prerequisite to voting such as fees and literacy tests

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when Johnson signed the voting rights act it made a lot of changes and caused african american people to be able to vote without having to take literacy test and pay poll taxes.

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April 4, 1968 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis Tennessee

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April 4, 1968 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis Tennessee

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Martin Luther King jr. was going out on his hotel balcony with some other friends to talk to the press and the news teams there. when he was shot by a hired hitman named James Earl Ray. this caused a huge uprising in civil rights.