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European colonists begin to arrive in America

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indigenous cultures already living on the American continent

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Christopher Columbus discovers America

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first English settlement Jamestown, Virginia is financed by the Virginia Company in London

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The Mayflower Compact

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Peter Minuit (Dutch governor) buys Mannahatta from the Algonquin Indians for trade goods worth $24

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First eleven African slaves arrive in New Amsterdam

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New Amsterdams harbour gets taken by english warships. The Dutch surrender and the colony gets named New York.

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William Penn founds Pennsylvania, a growing community of Quakers.

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The British own 13 separate colonies along the Atlantic coast of America. With the largest city being Philadelphia.

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Acts brought up by the British to control there American colonies. ->Anger etc by the American colonies

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British troops killed 5 civilians in riots-> More supporters for independence

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George Washington becomes president

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A huge area west of the Mississippi was sold to the USA for 15€ million by Napoleon

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Americans settled in Texas and revolted against their rules.
So Texas became independent and a thew years later the got part of the USA

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All native Americans living east of the river Mississippi were moving west of the Mississippi

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Mexican war

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the frontier; the iden of "Manifest Destiny", making the
US stretch from east to west coast, is born; Lewis and Clark explore the western
plains

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Act is passed by Congress, offering free farms in the West to settlers

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between the Confederate States of America (South) and the Union
(North)

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official abolition of slavery

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1890 massacre of Sioux Indians in the battle of wounded knee

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1890 massacre of Sioux Indians in the battle of wounded knee

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Emancipation Proclamation - Abolition of slavery

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Henry Ford invents assembly-line production to produce his most famous car, the model T

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The USA join world war 1

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„Wilson‘s Fourteen Points“: ideas for lasting peace and a League of Nations

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The Roaring Twenties; first Immigration Acts are passed by congress to reduce immigration

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Wall Street Crash

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the Great Depression and Roosevelt‘s new deal policy

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World war 2;1944 invasion of Normandy

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American B29 bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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Second atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Nagasaki

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Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (The USA join world war 2)

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Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King gives his “I have a dream” speech

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Civil rights act outlaws racial discrimination and segregation

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Martin Luther King was assassinated

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Korean War

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Cuban missile crisis

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Vietnam War

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Moon landing; US astronauts are the first human beings on the moon

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Presidential election Ronald Reagan defeated Carter by a huge margin to become the 40th president.

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Bush ordered a invasion of Panama to capture that countries leader.

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President George bush begins the Gulf War

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Bill Clinton was elected the first president after the cold war.

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Bill Clinton was reelected as president

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Close election for President between George W. Bush and Al Gore

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9/11 attacks: Terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed 2 of them into the twin towers, declaration of "war on terror".

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Department of Homeland Security is created, US Naval base in Guantánamo (Cuba) turned into detainment camp for terrorist prisoners.

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Inspectors were sent to Iraq but since Iraq was not cooperating US-Troops were sent there and invaded Iraq.

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Gigant Hurricane struck in USA taking away more than 1600 life’s (Hurricane Katrina)

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US housing bubble collapses, real estate market crashes.

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Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. causes stock market lasses and global economic crisis.

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Obama becomes the first black president 

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Obama becomes the first black president

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Obama worked on reforming the health care system in the USA

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"Don't ask, don't tell repeal act" allows queer Americans to serve in the US Armed Forces.

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Last combat troops left Iraq

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Obama was reelected in a close battle against Mitt Romney

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US Federal Government Shutdown due to lack of funds.

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Black Lives Matter

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Crisis in Iraq worsens and ISIS grows more violent, US military sent to Iraq to protect citizens and US embassy.

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First Black-Indian Vice President