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1492
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

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1607
A corporate colony operated by joint-stock companies. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America

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1756
The final war in the series between GB and France. Known as the "French and Indian War" in North America

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1763
In an effort to stabilize the western frontier, the British government issued a proclamation that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists reacted to the proclamation with anger and defiance.

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1765
The stamp act imposed Tax on all newspapers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England

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1770
Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British Soldiers

Several Colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry

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1773
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea into the sea.

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1774
The Intolerable Acts were a series of 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, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.

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1776
The document announced 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. At the time that the American Revolution began in April 1775 most colonists were not seeking independence.

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1781
The Siege of Yorktown was joint 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.

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1787-1789
The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

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1796
Washington's farewell address set an example of how power should be passed down and how you should not be greedy.

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1798
The Federalists passed the Naturalization Act, which increased the 5 to 14 years required for immigrants to qualify for U.S. citizenship. They also passed the Alien Acts, which authorized the president to deport aliens considered dangerous and to detain enemy aliens in times of war.

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1800
The first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to the next also led to president and vice-president having separated electoral votes

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1803
One of the more important things Jefferson did because it doubled the size of the U.S and unfortunately expanded slavery westward

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1812-1815
fought by the U.S and Great Britain and U.S won causing international respect because the U.S won against the strongest military in the world at the time.

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1820
Missouri became a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state. A compromise created so people that are pro or anti-slavery are happy (relived some tension) between North and the South

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1823
The U.S claimed the western territory for themselves forcing the European nation to recognize the U.S (none of them cared that much)

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1828
Indicated westward expansion as political power

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1830
Removed Native Americans off their territory making space for U.S westward expansion. Also gave the U.S the right to ignore/remove treaties they had with the Native Americans

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1831
Southern gov. created stricter slave laws to make sure more rebellions don't happen. The rules included stricter restrictions, heavier punishments and penalities for all African Americans not just slaves

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1836
Rallied all of Texas to want to leave Mexico and join the U.S because of the Mexican government killing everyone in the alamo

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1845
Led to the Mexican-American War and The U.S gained Texas as a new state

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1846
Conflict of Mexico and America led to annexation of Texas

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1850
Temporarily settle debate on slavery between the North and the South