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Description: On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani.
Historical Significance: This was a first exploration to expand land and to find a shorter pathways for a better way to Asia.

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Description: On May 13, 1607 104 men arrived to North America and chose picked Jamestown, Virginia for their first settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Historical Significance: This was the first English settlement which led to more and more expansion and eventually habitation in the New World.

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Description: On May 1756 the Seven Years War, also known today as the French and Indian War, was a global conflict which ran from 1756 until 1763. It pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America.
Historical Significance: It was the first of many wars and cause of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, France formally ceded New France to the British, and largely withdrew from the continent.

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Description: On October 7, 1763 A proclamation from the British government which forbid British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
Historical Significance: The Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War which the first sign of dividing power.

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Description: On March 22, 1765 the Stamp Act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government.
Historical Significance: This resulted in organized protests that allowed the revolution movement to gain tactical experience and set a pattern of resistance that led to the American independence.

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Description: On March 5, 1770 the Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Five colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse citizenry.
Historical Significance: The Boston Massacre helped spark the colonists' desire for American independence, while the dead rioters became a symbol for liberty.

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Description: On December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Historical Significance: The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. It showed Great Britain that Americans wouldn't take taxation and tyranny sitting down, and rallied American patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence.

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Description: On March 31, 1774 the Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act.
Historical Significance: This was a very strong reason that led to the American rebellion and led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in April 1775.

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Description: On July 4, 1776 the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain.
Historical Significance: The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government and what led to our independence from King George III.

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Description: From September 28–October 19, 1781, Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.
Historical Significance: The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender in end of British rule in the colonies.

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Description: On September 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.
Historical Significance: Its influence appears in similarities of phrasing and borrowed passages in other constitutions, as well as in the principles of the rule of law, separation of powers and recognition of individual rights.

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Description: On September 19, 1796 the main purpose of his farewell address was to announce that he would not seek a third term, but instead retire to private life.
Historical Significance:  He did this so he would set an example for future presidents on how to relinquish power. He feared that if he died in office, the presidency would be become a lifelong appointment.

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Description: On July 6, 1798 the Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government.
Historical Significance: These laws raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, authorized the president to deport "aliens," and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime.

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Description: On 1804 United States presidential election was  held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1804. Hamilton favored Jefferson over Burr, and he convinced several Federalists to switch their support to Jefferson, giving Jefferson a victory on the 36th ballot.
Historical Significance: The election constitutes the first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another in the United States.

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Description: On April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.
Historical Significance: The first major cession of land in a long series of expansions that span the 19th century.

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Description: From June 18, 1812 to February 17, 1815, conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
Historical Significance: The War of 1812 brought the United States onto the world's stage in a conflict that ranged throughout the American Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast, into Canada, and onto the high seas and Great Lakes.

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Description: The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to keep a balance between the number of slave states and the number of free states in the Union.
Historical Significance:  It maintained a delicate balance between free and slave states. On the single most divisive issue of the day, the U.S. Senate was equally divided.
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Description: In 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
Historical Significance:  The Monroe Doctrine is important because it contributed to American influence in the Western Hemisphere and demonstrated American resolve to be free from European control.

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Description: Jackson's Election was from Friday, October 31 to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. Jackson finished with a plurality of the electoral and popular vote, while the other three candidates each finished with a significant share of the votes. Clay, who had finished fourth, was eliminated.
Historical Significance: The victory of Jackson indicated political power. He was also the first man to be elected president through a direct appeal to the mass of the voters rather than through the support of a recognized political organization.

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Description: On May 28, 1830 it was an act singed into law authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
Historical Significance: It cause a great division between Indians and American and also freed more than 25 million acres of fertile, lucrative farmland to mostly white settlement in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

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Description:  On August 21, 1831. Nat Turner's action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people.
Historical Significance: Nat Turner's rebellion led to the passage of a series of new laws. The Virginia legislature actually debated ending slavery, but chose instead to impose additional restrictions and harsher penalties on the activities of both enslaved and free African Americans.

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Description: On February 23, 1836 a group of Texan (or Texian) volunteers led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, seizing control of San Antonio.
Historical Significance: The Battle of the Alamo was an important event to American History because it rallied the rest of Texas to fight against the Mexican army eventually leading to a victory over Santa Ana at the Battle of San Jacinto.

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Description: Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 and became the 28th state. Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence.
Historical Significance: The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico's true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande.

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Description: From April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848 it was a battle for land where Mexico was fighting to keep what they thought was their property and the U.S. desired to retain the disputed land of Texas and obtain more of Mexico's northern lands.
Historical Significance:  It changed the slavery debate. It almost doubled the size of the United States and began a debate, between Northerners and Southerners, over what to do with the newly acquired land.

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Description: The compromise admitted California to the United States as a free state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
Historical Significance: The Compromise of 1850 allowed the addition of some free states and some slave states, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, and outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery in the nation's capital.