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political scandal that centered around arms dealing from the US to Iran

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1955

Emmett Till was brutally murdered after being accused of offending a white woman.

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1898

was sunk in cuba, starting the spanish-american war

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began as a peaceful workers rally in chicago, but then a bomb was thrown at the police. Eventually won the 8-hour day for workers

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1846-1848

Caused by the Annexation of Texas because of American Settlers in Mexican territories and ultimately US won and also it was part of Manifest Destiny

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US purchased territory from France, greatly increasing its size.

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1492, Vikings actually discovered the Americas first, but Christopher Columbus bumped into by trying to find a better route to Asia.

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war fought against the British for impressment of American sailors

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1994

North American Free Trade Agreement

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1960

non-violent protests in the woolworth store in NC

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1898

war between America and the Spanish, resulted in the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philipines

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1857

landmark case that ruled that Citizenship cannot be granted to African Americans

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1892

A violent dispute between Carnegie Steel and the unionized workers after they refused to negotiate on wages

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1521

Hernan Cortes put the city under siege and allied with local tribes and used their more advanced weapons to conquer Tenochtitlan.

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1675-1678

An armed conflict between the New England colonies and the indigenous people living there. The indigenous people were trying to push out the colonists from New England.

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1676-1677

A rebellion by the Virginia colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor William Berkely. It was the first uprising in the colonies.

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this war was expensive so the British decided to tax the colonies to pay for it.

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1773

Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw crates of tea into the ocean as a sign of defiance.

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1774

meeting of delegates from 12 of the colonies

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1776

Document in which the colonies separated from Great Britain

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1786-1787

Armed uprising in Massachusetts because of excessive taxes

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meeting in Philidelphia by the delegates where they addressed that the Articles of Confederation weren't working for the USA

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1796

letter written by george washington at the end of his 2nd term

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The whitehouse was burned by british troops in 1814

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America became a market based economy

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Executive order by President Abraham Lincoln that ordered freeing slaves in confederate states

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Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state

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womens rights in ny!!1

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1894

Where Pullman railroad workers held a strike after having their wages cut. Called for a boycott of all Pullman cars.

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1865

A battle in the Appomattox court house that ended the civil war

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1915

A passenger boat that was destroyed by the German Navy

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John Wilkes Booth assasinated Lincol at the Fords theatre

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1865

A period after the civil war where the confederate states were reintigrated into the US

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1896

a case that ruled racial segregation was not violating the constitution

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1963

to advocate for civil rights n yeah

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Book written by Upton Sinclaire that exposes how the meatpacking industry exploited its workers

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1998

dude was impeached but stayed in office for the rest of his term

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1914-1918

a global war between the allies and the central powers

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A prosperous time in US history, an economic boom, ended with the great depression

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1963

JFK was assasinated during a parade

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1929-1939

economic downturn, high unemployment rates, no money basically

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1933-1938

political, social, and economic reforms by President Roosevelt

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1939-1945

Second Global Conflict, between the allies and the axis powers

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also known as the fair housing act, signed by Lyndon B Johnson

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2000

landmark decision from the supreme court. Oral argument?

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1973

they signed the vietnam peace agreement

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1972-1974

break-in at the Democratic national Committee league that revealed a lot of stuff

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2001

response to 9/11

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2001

expanded US serveilance