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Last year before the English colonized America

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Columbus arrived in America, beginning European takeover

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The Boston Massacre by 9 British soldiers killing 3 people of hundreds of people throwing projectiles

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Colonists took action because of heavy taxes/violent actions

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People fighting in the war met financial trouble

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The 1789 US Election was the start of the first presidential election to ever take place. The first president that was elected was George Washington.

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The Constitution is ratified (passed) - start of our government

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The 10th amendment stood by if the constitution does not give power directly to the Federal Government, the power goes to the states.

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The Alien Act made it more difficult for immigrants to live in the US, and the Sedition Act made it a crime for anyone to write or say anything bad about the President, Congress, or Government.

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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolve was so Kentucky and Virginia and nullify the laws of the Alien and Sedition Act because they were unconstitutional.

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The US election in 1800 was named “The Revolution of 1800” because Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent (current) president John Adams.

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The Louisiana Purchase was gaining of territory in Louisiana from the French First Republic

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US government bans international slave trade

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The Hartford Convention was to suggest that the New England states should leave or secede from the Union.

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The McCulloch vs Maryland incident began from the supremacy of the government, and it affected mostly taxes.

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The Missouri Compromise was something that stopped northern states from having slavery

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Cotton becomes the biggest export in the US

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The Lowell Mill Opening was historical because it helped many individuals who were immigrates to get jobs, and have a chance at working

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President John Adams was elected in the 1824 election, and he was chosen by the House of Representatives. Jackson won most of the electoral and popular vote.

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The Indian Removal Act was to forcefully remove Cherokee, Chickasaw, Semionle, Creek, and Chocataw people

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Nat Turner was seeking revenge for the hundreds of years of slavery and for everyone who suffered

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The Nullification Crisis happened because South Carolina wanted to nullify the Tariff of 1832, which they ended up threatening to leave the Union.

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Annexation of Texas: Texas entered the US as a slave state

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - US seizes a lot of land from Mexico

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California Gold rush causes an influx of people in search for gold

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The Compromise of 1850 included would be decided by Popular Sovereignty, instead of the Federal Government.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in slavery being decided by Popular Sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

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Dorothea Dix founded a hospital in Raleigh

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Abraham Lincoln and his party was against the extension of slavery to newer states, but he didn't say he would abolish slavery.

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The Civil War begins - North and South fight over slavery

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Dakota 38 was a conflict between the Dakota people and US troops

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Emancipation Proclamation was made by Abraham Lincoln

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The 13th amendment also abolished slavery within the United States or any other place subject to their jurisdiction. It was required to get the 13th amendment ratified.

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The south ended up being taken down in the civil war, and power shifted from state to federal. The Federal Government had gained more power after this.

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The reconstruction was followed by the Civil War

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Juneteenth celebrated the end of slavery

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The 14th amendment granted the citizenship to any person in the US who was not originally born in the US and that has either been born or nationalized before slavery ended, therefore anyone who came during slavery could get their citizenship.

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President Andrew Johnson held open disagreements with the Republican Congress. They implemented a law called the Tenure of Office Act to limit his power. Johnson openly broke this law.

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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

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The Transcontinental Railroad was about people demanding for higher wages instead of a previous wage, which was kind of low. They also requested an hour reduction

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The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote in the United States, however it did not grant African American women the right to vote.

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Standard Oil was one of the biggest oil companies in the world in the 1870s, and it lead to many companies being bought out, however Standard Oil was a monopoly, and they slowly bought all the other oil companies and factories, and they increased revenue and power

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The Carnegie Steel Plant opened many opportunities for different jobs, and they gave people chances to change who they were, if they happened to immigrate to the US from other countries

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The Battle of Little Bighorn was a successful battle between the Lakotas and Plain Indians after battling US troops from taking their land

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The election of 1876 was one of the most controversial presidential elections in history. Nobody won the majority of the votes, while Tilden won the popular votes and had the most electoral votes.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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The Homestead Strike was the formation of the Amalgamated Association that was a union for iron and steel workers. The Association wanted a pay increase, but a man named Frick wanted a pay decrease and locked workers out of the plants, and hired security officers so people could not get in, even if they tried to

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The Spanish American War begins

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White democrats threatened to avenge their defeat and regain office

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The Anthracite Coal Strike was one of the more successful strikes to take place. The owners actually increased the pay rate and cut down their hours, due to everyone going on strike and nobody wanting to work due to unsafe conditions and unfair wages

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Black wall Street in Durham was founded at this time

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Angel Island opens as an immigration station

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a devastating fire that resulted in over 140 lives being lost, due to unsafe working conditions and child labor laws, and only one elevator working, and most of the workers being on the 7th floor, had no way of escaping, as the exits were locked on the outside

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The 16th amendment granted Congress the right to levy a tax/income from any source without apportioning the states and without regard to the census.

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The 17th amendment granted a new way for voters to elect their state senators. Before this, senators were picked by state legislatures.

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The Great Migration was the movement of over 6M+ people from the south to the north

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The US enters WW1 and a large battle across the world ensues

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The Espionage and Sedition Act was passed, limiting speech of the population and punished anyone for having a voice against the government

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The 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture, purchase, sale, or transportation of intoxicated liquor, also known as alcohol. This amendment basically banned people from selling alcohol.

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The 19th amendment granted all women in the United States the right to vote. This was historical because women weren’t allowed to vote before the 19th amendment, now they can, which is a very big thing for the US.

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Ratification of the 19th amendment was to make sure woman could vote freely

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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural rival of music, dances, art, fashion, and many more

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The New Deal is where the states still had power, and an economical crisis hit in the 30s. People were put to work, and a new era to American politics began.

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The 21st amendment granted alcohol to legally be sold in the United States, which also made crimes such as assault, burglaries, and many others go down significantly because of this amendment.

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Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan during WW2

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Japanese Internment starts by all Japanese-Americans being sent to camps due to WW2 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941

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The 22nd amendment gave presidents the limit of only serving 2 terms in office, which is about 8 years. Each term is 4 years, and after that 4 years, they can be re-elected. People before were presidents for many years, however now they have some limitations.

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The Civil Rights Movement was inspired by African Americans being impatient about the pace of legal charge.

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The Great Society was an expansion that happened for the national government and war was declared on poverty. The government gained from this and funded many different programs.

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The 24th amendment abolished the Congresses and state’s rights from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment and/or tax or any other type of tax, so they are basically saying that you don’t have to pay to vote.

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After the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act is passed

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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution resulted in machinery being extracted from various places near the US

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The black Panther party was established so they could established equality and unity between every race

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The LA walkouts was to symbolize equality for Mexican students

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The My Lai Massacre happened during the Vietnam War and many were killed and injured from both the US and Vietnam

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Impression of homosexuality didn't fit the laws, which caused massive protests

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The 26th amendment set a limit of voters in the United States to 18 or older, and it also lowered the draft age for the United States military from 21 to 18.

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President Richard Nixon’s administration was found to be involved in covering up a break-in to the Democratic National Headquarters. The House was ready to charge Nixon with obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt (disregard) of Congress.

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The Disability Rights Protest was hundreds of people sitting in for the US government

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The United States had one of the highest inflation rates across the world

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WTO was created

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The Republican Congress claimed that President Bill Clinton committed perjury (lied under oath) and obstructed (stopped) justice during the investigation of the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.

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he 2000 presidential election was a contest between George Bush, who was the governor of Texas, and Al Gore, who was the Vice President.

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The Patriot Act was passed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania

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A man named Michael Brown was shot by police. Large protests broke out

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The 2016 presidential election was a battle between former president Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton. Trump won the election by having 30 states with over 300 pledged electors out of the over 500 voting.

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A new pandemic was introduced late in September of 2019, which spread across the world quickly

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President Trump was charged by a Democrat controlled House with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for pressuring a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 election

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There had been a big racial outbreak because of the COVID-19 pandemic and air travel was stopped from outside the country

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The storming of the Capital in an attempt to change the presidential votes

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President Trump was charged by a Democrat controlled House for starting a deadly insurrection against the US after the 2020 election