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In 1062, Lief Erickson finds America. He first arrived somewhere in North America called Vinland. He found a lot of Vines there. Today Vinland is located in Canada.

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He discovered America in October 12, 1492.
He was trying to find a water route from Europe to Asia.
That led him to find America but people already lived there.
He found the area that is called the Bahamas today.

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The mayflower left on August 1620 and landed on November 1620. They traveled through the Atlantic Ocean and there were a lot of storms. They wanted to land in Virginia. The mayflower landed in Cape God, Massachusetts. The pilgrims (separatists) left England because they wanted religious freedom. The males had to sign the Mayflower compact to obey the new laws.

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1775-1783
The main cause for the war was taxation without representation.
The stamp act: Great Britain taxed colonists on documents, cards, etc.
Townshed duties: They taxed the colonists on paint, tea, etc.
Boston tea party: They protested against having taxes on tea and other necessities.

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The main author of the Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson.
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4th, 1776.
It stated the reasons for war and liberty.

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1787
The Constitutional convention was at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
James Madison was the father of the constitution
They laid down the government. They wrote principles to keep the people free.
They wanted to ratify the Articles of Confederation

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The late 1700-1800
They wanted the United States of America to grow from East to West coast.
They believed that providence can help America stretch.
John O'Sullivan coined the term.

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1803
France owned Louisiana before the Louisiana purchase.
It was a land deal between U.S and France.
The U.S obtained about 827,000 square miles of land West of the Mississippi river for 15 million dollars.
Thomas Jefferson was president.
Napoleon Bonaparte was the French Emperor.

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June 18th, 1812- February 17, 1815
The reasons of war was trade restrictions from Britain to France. Also, there was impressment of 10,000 American Merchants soldiers in the British Navy.
The war is also called the second war of independence.
They were impressing people into the navy.

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September 14, 1814
There was a battle in Baltimore when Francis Scott key wrote the star spangled banner. It was The Battle of Fort McHenry.
After the bombing, Key saw the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry.

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1846-1848
The Mexicans and Americans were in a fight because they wanted to own Texas.
The Americans wanted to have war with Mexico because they wanted to own Texas. There were more Americans than Mexicans that lived in Texas.
The treaty stipulation was that Mexicans already living in the U.S were offered citizenship.

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1861-1865
It was North U.S vs South U.S because they were having disagreements. The North was the union and the South was confederacy. They were fighting about slavery. The Union wanted to remove slavery and have more unity. The south wanted to be independent. Abraham Lincoln was in the North.
The North won the war.

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January 1st, 1863
Abraham Lincoln was the author
The documents stopped foreign countries from helping the South.
It stated that some states needed to free the slaves.
Those freed could be in the paid service of the Union.
Stopped them aiding the South.
During war the North never recognized the South has succeeded. The south felt like they have the right to have slavery.

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1898
Cuba, Spain, and the United States were in the war.
There were Americans living in Cuba.
Cuba wanted independence from Spain.
The U.S sent "Maine" to help the Americans.
Then Spain and U.S had war
The U.S won the wars.
The U.S think the Spaniards blew up the U.S ship called Maine at the Havana Harbor.
end result: Cuba gained independence.

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1890-1920
Things that progressed: Efforts to improve society. Woman's rights. Working conditions.
National American Woman's Suffrage Association is the name of the organization supporting woman's right to vote.
The amendments 16,17,18,19,20,21 were passed.
muckrackers: Journalists that brought out the bad hidden things.

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1914-1919
At the beginning of world war 1, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated.
The Treaty of Versailles ended the "The Great War".
The U.S joined the war in 1917 because German U-boat sank an American passenger and commercial ships.
The two sides were the Allies and central. The Allies fought central because of the violence of Germany.
war ended with treaty signed in 1918

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1920
Woodrow Wilson gave the idea to have the League of Nations.
It was to prevent wars from happening. Also, to have peace in the world.

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The Declaration of Sentiments laid out what women's rights should be.
In 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first leaders of the Women's Rights Movement
The Women protested to become free like men.
Susan B. Anthony was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

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On Black Thursday, Herbert C Hoover was president of the United States.
In October 24th, 1929 the stock market crashed because stocks were too high and people started buying less things.
In the 1930's there was a Dust Bowl that affected Texas to Nebraska because of the big dust storms.
Then there was the Great Depression and people lost their homes.

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1933-1945
Adolf Hitler was in charge of the Holocaust. He put away people that didn't believe in his political style.
Six million European Jews were murdered.
Jews and Non Jews were sick and starving.
Homes and cities were ruined and needed to be rebuilt.
Families were separated.

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1939-1945
WW2 started by Hitler's invasion in Poland.
In 1941 the United States entered the war.
It was the deadliest war in human history.
It got us out great depression.
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S Naval base
The attack was on December 7, 1941 near Honolulu.
The Japanese attacked because they wanted more land to help with their economy and demographics. They tried to attain the South Pacific Countries.

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Japanese internment camps were built because of Pearl Harbor.
The Americans didn't like the Japanese people that lived in America.
On February 19, 1942, Franklyn D. Roosevelt wanted the Japanese Americans to leave military designated areas. He wanted the Japanese to be in Internment Camps.
Then people protested to stop racial discrimination.
In 1988 the U.S apologized.

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October 24th, 1945
Franklyn D. Roosevelt Devised the "United Nations" phrase.
Today 193 countries are in the United Nations.
The purpose of the United Nations is to help the economy grow, to help those in need, to have protection, and to all get along.

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On March 12th, 1947, Truman gave his speech to congress.
Truman wanted the U.S to oppose communism.
Truman's speech started the cold war.

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March 12,1947-December 26,1991
The cold war started because of disagreements of the United States and USSR or Soviet Union. They didn't want each other to spread economic and political systems. They also fought for allegiance.
Mikhail Gorbachev was president of Soviet Union.
The soviets were mad at Americans for being slow in entering the war. The soviets were mad at them for not having soviets as being part of the international community.
It was called Cold War because the United States and the Soviet Union didn't actually have a war.

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1950-1953
It was a war between North Korea and South Korea.
The U.S troops were in the South and Soviet troops were in the North.
They fought over communism and democracy.
The U.S joined the war because they were afraid that if Korea falls they would also loose Japan.
The North didn't want to be in South Korea's government.
Treaty was signed in 2018

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November 1, 1955-April 30, 1975
The war was between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
North Vietnam wanted a communist regime for the whole country like the Soviet Union and China.
In Geneva conference they decided to split Vietnam.
The North tries to take over the South.
The U.S joined the Vietnam war to stop the spread of communism.
Communists got control of South Vietnam.
General William Westmoreland was in Vietnam war.

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1954-1968
It was for Black Americans to end racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the United States.
Montgomery bus boycott: Rosa Parks did not move out of her seat when they told her to. She initiated the civil rights movement.
Bloody Sunday: The African Americans were attacked by Alabama State Troopers. White Americans saw that things were getting out of control.

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1955-1968
He was one of the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement.
He made peaceful protests to end black segregation.
He helped African Americans have Civil rights.
On August 28th, 1963, he gave a speech called "I have a Dream".

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December 9, 1952- May 17, 1964
It was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court.
It removed the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
It declared to not have racial segregation in schools.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower didn't support Brown vs. Board of education.
Earl Warren helped abolish segregation.

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September 4, 1957
Orval faubus didn't let nine black students inside Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
Orval Faubus was a governor in Arkansas.
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to accompany the nine students inside the school.
The little Rock Nine desegregated Little Rock Central High School.
They are called "Little Rock Nine".

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June 17, 1972
5 men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Watergate hotel and an office in Washington DC.
President Nixon sent the men because he wanted to win the election.
The police caught the burglars. They were holding 3500 cash.
Richard Nixon was president and didn't want anyone to know he was in charge of what happened.

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August 2, 1990- February 28, 1991
It is also called "Persian Gulf War".
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait started the war.  Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq.
It is against international law for a country to invade another country.
He felt like Iraq belonged to Kuwait. Kuwait became independent before Kuwait. Hussein wanted to get Iraq’s vast oil reserves.

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September 11th 2001
The Al-Qaeda were attacking the U.S.
The Al-Qaeda was led by Osama Bin Laden.
I think he attacked for being against Muslims.
There were planes that crashed on the World Trade center, the pentagon in Virginia, and in Pennsylvania. The last plane could've hit the white house.
2,977 people died.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack of all history.
After September 11th, there was more security in airports, there was memorials for the people who died, and the buildings were rebuilt.

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March 20, 2003-December 15, 2011
The United States invaded Iraq.
President George W. Bush wanted the war.
The U.S fought Iraq because they wanted to disarm the people there with weapons, to stop Saddam Hussein from helping Terrorist groups, and to free the people in Iraq.