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A 14-year-old African American, brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman, played a significant role in the civil rights movement.

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A series of nonviolent protests initiated by African American college students in 1960 at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging racial segregation.

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A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars

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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the Bahamas archipelago and the island later named Hispaniola. Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, which the native Lucayan people called, on October 12, 1492. Columbus renamed the island San Salvador.

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The fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was an important event in the Spanish conquest of the empire. It occurred in 1521 following extensive manipulation of local factions and exploitation of pre-existing political divisions by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

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The establishment of the Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was first founded in 1585, but the colonists had disappeared under unknown circumstances when a ship visited the colony five years later in 1590.

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King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allie

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Bacon's Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677, began with a local dispute with the Doeg Indians on the Potomac River. Chased north by Virginia militiamen, who also attacked the otherwise uninvolved Susquehannocks, the Indians began raiding the Virginia frontier.

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The French and Indian War was a conflict between the British Empire and France for control of North America. The war lasted from 1754 to 1763, ending with the Treaty of Paris. The war was part of the Seven Years' War, which was fought in Europe, India, and North America.

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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773. American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British response was to impose even more stringent policies on the Massachusetts colony.

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The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.

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The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. It was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.

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A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787, Shays' Rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War. Although Massachusetts was the focal point of the crisis, other states experienced similar economic hardships.

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The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation

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Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. He wrote it near the end of the second term of his presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia

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A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.

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General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C., and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg

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Americans moving away from self-sufficient agriculture to production of goods for sale

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Congress admitted Maine as a free state in 1820 so that Missouri would become a slave state and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36 30, the southern boundary of Missouri

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Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.

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Over 200,000 participants, including Martin Luther King Jr., gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., advocating for equal rights and economic opportunities for African Americans.

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Sparked by a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the United States and a long-standing dispute over the southern border

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Since slaves are property of their masters, a slave is not automatically granted his freedom when his master moves him to a free state or territory

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Issued by Lincoln to free all of the slaves in the Confederate states. The slaves in border states loyal to the Union, however, remained enslaved, it only applied to Confederate states in rebellion.

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Where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865

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John Wilkes Booth shot this leader in the head at Ford Theater, just days after the Civil War ended

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Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union

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A labor protest rally in Chicago turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.

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A violent strike in Pittsburgh over a decision to cut wages by nearly 20%. This strike ended with the destruction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers, one of the largest unions at the time.

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A nonviolent strike that brought down the railway system in most of the West over wages. President Cleveland shut it down because it was interfering with mail delivery.

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U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.

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A novel by Upton Sinclair that revealed gruesome details about the meat-packing industry in Chicago.

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Assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, sparking a wave of investigations and conspiracy theories.

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War over the European control of Cuba; the U.S. won and gained: Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and an alliance with Cuba.

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A U.S. battleship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor; provided an excuse for those eager for war with Spain.

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An uprising in China directed against foreign influence; suppressed by an international force, including Americans.

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The first, modern global war, started by the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat during WWI, turning American opinion against the Germans.

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One of the most significant decades in U.S. history due to great changes in American society, including the rise of consumerism, technology, and social and creative expression.

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The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in 1929.

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President FDR's precursor of the modern welfare state, combating economic depression through social insurance measures and government spending.

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The second, modern global war, starting less than 2 decades after the last. A significant portion of the world was involved, divided into Axis and Allied powers.

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Assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, had a profound impact on the civil rights movement.

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Marked the end of direct American involvement in the Vietnam War, following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. South Vietnam would later lose the war, and Vietnam is communist to this day.

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Enacted to address housing discrimination by prohibiting the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person based on race, color, religion, or national origin.

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Involving the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex, leading to revelations of widespread abuses of power and the subsequent resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

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A political scandal in the 1980s involving the covert sale of weapons to Iran by the U.S. government to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, leading to Congressional investigations and convictions.

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A trade agreement signed in 1994 between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, aiming to eliminate barriers to trade and investment and promote economic cooperation in North America.

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Centered on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice related to his extramarital affair.

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The 2000 U.S. presidential election, marked by a controversial recount in Florida, legal battles culminating in the Supreme Court's decision to stop the recount, and Bush's ultimate victory despite losing the popular vote.

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A global military and political campaign initiated by the United States in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, aimed at combating terrorism and its sponsors around the world.

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A U.S. law passed in response to the 9/11 attacks, granting expanded surveillance and law enforcement powers to the government in the name of national security and counterterrorism efforts.