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More than 100 people sailed to the island of Roanoke. The colonists, who came from England, where lead by John White.
John White sailed back to England for supplies, but when he returned about 3 years later, the colony had disappeared.
To this day, no one knows what happened.

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England send John Smith to establish the Jamestown Colony.
This started a whole new area of colony's. People were looking for adventure, fleeing economical problems or religious persecutions.

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The Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.

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European colonies were placed up and down the east cost of the North American continent.

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George Washington made a name for himself as a military leader in the French and Indian war, that raged in this time period.
The English colony's were victorious.
The French and Indian war served as a rehearsal for the war of independence.

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The colonists made the Declaration of Independence from the british, lead by George Washington.

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The american constitution was finally made, and George Washington became the first president of the United States.

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President Thomas Jefferson signed a law, that stopped the importation of slaves from Africa.
But this did not stop slavery in the US.

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The war between the british and the americans was fought, because the british wanted to restrict the expansion of the US across the North American continent and control US trade.

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The Indian Removal Act was made by Andrew Jackson who was the president at that time. He thought the white people had more right over the land, than the native americans.
The trail of tears were the final draw. 60.000 Native American were forced to march from their home in the south Easton part of the US, to reservation lands that lay west of the Mississippi River. About 4.000 of these people died under this march.

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The war between the states broke out. This lead the southern states of the US to break free from the rest of the country, and the founded their own country the confederate states of America.
The civil war started at Fort Sumter, and over 750.000 people dying during this.

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The civil war ends and the fall of the confederate states, made over 4 million slaves free.

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Black people were given the ability to vote, but also prevented from voting by discriminating laws.

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Women were allowed to vote.

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Native americans were allowed to vote.

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The Great Depression begins, when the stock marked crashed. Businesses were left bankrupted and thousands of citizens lost their jobs.

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The environmental disaster of the dust bowl hits the US. This disaster were manmade because of irresponsible farming practices. Farmers went bankrupted and many people lost their homes.
This lead the government to make programs as social security, the civilian conservation corpse, farm reliefs and banking reforms.

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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor december the 7th made the US declare war on Japan, and join their european allies in the 2. world war.

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The 2. world war ends.
The fighting in the pacific raged on, which lead the americans to launch Rodet Oppenheimer's atomic bombs on to Japanese cities Nakasagi and Hiroshima

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Rock n' Roll was born.
NASA launched their first rockets into space.

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The government raised the civil rights act, because of Martin Luther King and others spoke up about the ongoing discriminations of African Americans.

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Martin Luther King was assassinated, but this got stuck between two other assassinations the same year, President John F. Kennedy's in 1963 and his brother Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968.

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Terrorist attacks hit the US with the attack on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvanian field.
This lead president George W. Bush to declare war on terrorism.

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President Barack Obama declared that the US would begin a systematic pullout of troops in Afghanistan.

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Obama declares the war in Afghanistan over.