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The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Second Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain
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The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States ... Two small manuals published during the 1930s would establish USMC doctrine in two areas.
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The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to explain to the whole world why the thirteen British colonies were seeking to start their own country. The Declaration of Independence signifies some of the principles and ideals of the founding fathers which the government of the United States follows today.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.
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In 1778, France became an official ally of the United States through the Treaty of Alliance. At this point, the French became directly involved in the war.
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DescriptionThe Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
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The Committee worked on the Constitution until September 17th when the convention voted to approve the Constitution. 41 delegates were present. However, three refused to sign the proposed Constitution
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The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797
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Vermont ratified on November 3, 1791 and Virginia was the final state to ratify on December 15, 1791
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars
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On 25 March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books. Nevertheless, although the Act made it illegal to engage in the slave trade throughout the British colonies
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The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom, with their respective allies, from June 1812 to February 1815
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DescriptionThe Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States
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was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.
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DescriptionThe Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna
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the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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DescriptionThe California Gold Rush was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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DescriptionThe American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between the northern United States and the southern United States.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against African Americans.
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DescriptionThe Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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On December 10, 1898, they signed the Treaty of Paris. The treaty granted independence to Cuba, the transfer of power of Guam (in the Western Pacific Ocean) and Puerto Rico to the US, and the sale of the Philippines to the US for $20 million.
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DescriptionCharles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At age 25 in 1927
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On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened for business, with the passage through of the Ancon, an American cargo-passenger ship.
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DescriptionWorld War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920
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October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed
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DescriptionWorld War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor
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DescriptionThe Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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Bomb was placed in Hiroshima and it did a lot of damage in Japan
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Period where the American dream was being implemented and many babies were born
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War between two superpowers, United state’s and the Soviet Union
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The Korean War began when North Korean troops pushed into South Korea on June 25, 1950, and it lasted until 1953.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled
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Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam
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First artificial earth satillite
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While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.
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United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote.
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JFK was killed during march while he was on a car with his wife and others
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
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The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase
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September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001