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1838
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Many of them lost there life in the long-term walking, it is a part of the Indian removal, this ethnic cleansing event was gradual, occurring over a period of nearly two decades.

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1840
Thousands of people took this hazardous 2,000-mile journey between 1841 and 1869, crossing the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  The Oregon Trail was one of two routes to head westward. The other was the Santa Fe Trail that ended up in New Mexico. As settlers migrated to the west, they established specific routes that would allow them the best course to travel. The Oregon Trail was discovered by the famous exploration team of Lewis and Clark and started in Independence, Missouri, meandered through six states to end up in what is now the state of Oregon.

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The Corps of Discovery was a specially-established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that took place between May 1804 and September 1806. The Corps was led jointly by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark.

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1803
Thomas Jefferson sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to ask French leader, Napoleon, to sell part of Louisiana, including New Orleans, ro the United State. President offered $10 million for the approximately 800000 square miles of land. Napoleon was fighting two wars. One in the Caribbean and one with England. He needed money to pay the costs for these two wars. He offered the entire territory to the USA for $15 million-which was $0.4 an acre!

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1789
The Constitution set up two federal laws, senate and house of representatives. Because the larger states want more representation while the smaller states want equal representation.

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1781
This is the last battle of the American Revolution. When British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army surrendered to General George Washington’s American force and its French allies at the Battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781, it was more than just military win. The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence.

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1777-1778
The patriots were sick from disease, hunger, and exposure. The Continental Army camped in crude log cabins and endured cold conditions while the British Army was warm and full.

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1776
The Declaration of Independence is a document saying that the patriot wants the independence and how bad is the laws.

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1775
This is the first battle of American Revolution, the beginning of American Revolution. Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the British soldier. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire.

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1774
British Prime Minister Lord North convinced Parliament to pass laws called the Coercive Acts(Intolerable Act) in the spring of 1774. These acts were an effort to make the colonists pay for the tea and to keep the colonists from planning other attacks. It stopped all trade between Boston and Britain, did not allow town meetings, gave Britain control of the colony of Massachusetts, and strengthened the Quartering Act. This cause the AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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1773
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the American Colonists against the British government. The colonists decided to protest Britain's unfair taxes by throwing the tea into the ocean. The Boston Tea Party made the British government furious.

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1773
The colonies only can buy tea from British East India Company, the only company can sell the tea to them. And with many taxes, colonist became really mad, this cause the Boston Tea Party.

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1770
Colonists began to shout insults and throw snowballs at the soldier, they have living with them for about 5 years. Soon more soldier arrive, and the people grew louder and angrier, shots were fired, the soldier has killed 5 colonists.

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1767
These acts made colonists pay taxes on imported tea, glass, paper, and other items to pay for rising military costs due to the Quartering Act.

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1765
After Stamp Act, the British Parliament also passed the Quartering Act of 1765. This act required colonists to quarter, or house and feed British soldiers. The Colonists did not like having a standing army of soldiers with blank search warrants, or writs of assistance. They had lost their sense of rights over their own property and the housing and supplying the soldiers was costly. The British response was that the colonists should pay their share of the expense of providing them with the protection from Indian attacks. This made Colonist mad.

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1765
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act which taxed anything printed on paper by requiring colonists to buy a stamp, or seal, for paper products. Parliament continued to try to raise funds to protect the colonies and pay the debt of the French and Indian War through such taxes. This act caused colonists to resent British rule.

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1733
Sugar Act, a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies. The American colonists were never fully comfortable with those laws, but became more strongly opposed with the passage of the Sugar Act.

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1763
After the French and Indian War, British soldiers stayed in the Ohio River Valley to keep order. But most of the American Indians wanted the soldier to leave area, and then it led to a war. British win, and King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763. It did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This made colonists very angry because they wanted to settle on the land and they did not want British soldiers to live among them.

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1754-1763
French & Indian War is fought between France and Great Britain to determine control of the vast colonial territory of North America. The Britain win, France give to Britain the control of Canada and the east of Mississippi River. But Britain have heavy debt after this war.

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1651-1660

The British Parliament wanted to extract more wealth from its colonies from in North America using the mercantilism, the British passed a series of laws to control the trade, these laws were called Navigation Act. Which means that the goods heading to the colonies had to carried by English ships. Its made the colonies angry.