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Spanish bring cattle to the U.S.
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Settlers left Europe to find new land, and new opportunities and freedoms.
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The city of Jamestown was built in May of 1607.
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Tobacco was Americas largest export. Although it was illegal the new settlers did it cause it brought in alot of money.
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In the 1600's the Spanish controled most of the worldwide trade.
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Mayflower left the new lands on April 5th 1621.
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Three months after the Mayflower set sail back to Europe, more than half of the pilgrams had died from hunger, exhaustion, or diseas.
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In 1645 the King of England sent his Redcoat soldiers to America to gain control.
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Boston, had the first Newspaper.
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In September of 1627 there were many Redcoats in America. For every 1 Redcoat there was 4 Americans.
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Where 5 Redcoats try to hold of an angry mob, Four died on the spot and a fifth died after four days. Six others were wounded.
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Crispis Attics, a slave, was the firs person to Die at the Boston Massacre and the word was quickly spread throughout the world.
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Paul Revere mad the front page, of the Boston Newspaper, about the Boston Massacre and he titles it "The Bloody Massacre"
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December 16th 1773, a group of about 200 men went to the Boton harbor and dumped ever case/box of tea into the boston harbor. They called it the Boston Tea Party.
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Boone crosses into Shawnee territory
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By Janurary 1776 there where about 20,000 people in New York
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Around June 30th 1776 there were around 3,000 British Battlships packed with Redcoats, and ready to take over the New Land
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July 4th 1776 the Declaration of independence was signed
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July 12 1776 two of the thousands of ships opened fire on New York city, it was the larges attack on New York untill Septeber 11, 2001.
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Now America has the native american and their fighting stradegies on their side. Instead of going up against the best army in the world, they will simply just sneak attack them opening up a whole new was of war
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By 1778 The british had New York under control and they taxed everything,and by this time food prices were up 800%
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This was the start of The Battle of Yorktown..
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Battle of Yorktown ends with America victorious
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General George Washington was named Americas first president
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The Cotton Gin was invented (helpped increase the speed of producing cotton.)
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Thomas Jefferson baught 1/2 billion acres for 3 cents an acre
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Lewis and Clark map the new country.
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Sacajawea saved Boone and his men by showing them ways through the land and leading them to food, water, and shelter.
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Erie Canal is the Biggest man construction project and is 300 miles long.
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In 1818 families where dying from Cow milk
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Harriet Tubman risked her life to help free slaves by leading them and the "Underground Railroad"
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Hunters and trappers start to catch beavers, they sell for alotback in Eurrope, because in Europe there not many left.
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Thousands of trappers start trapping in the rockies.
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The Industrial Revoulution was the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
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In 1825 the South had an economy set on cotton, and the North was set on industry.
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The Erie Canal opens for the first time on October 2, 1825
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Andrew Jackson forces Indians into reservations.
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By the summer of 1830 the South owned 1/2 of the worlds cotton.
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Alimo was where American settlers where getting into Mexican land and a Spanish group killed all but wo Texan defenders and were told to send a message to the rest of the settlers to stay out, but the message they remembered was remember the Alimo.
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Morse code was invented on april 27 1836 by Samuel Morse.
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The Word Millionaire was invented, because of people having millions of dollars.
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Miners from all over came here to get gold, but problems started when some miners where finding alot and others finding none.
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It hit ground zero for the slave trade in 1941, because of 1/2 a million slaves were traded like animals.
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May 1846 thousands of settlers started heading west in search of new lands
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Wagontail had begun with George Doner leading the way.
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Due to being stuck in the middle of nowhere in the snow, and family had already eatin the cattle. The family had no choice but Kanablism.
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John Brown is put to Death by the state of Virginia, because of treason and murder.
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By the summer of 1850 te South had control of 3/4 of the worlds cotton.
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1854 Scientists discover oil
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Clare barton invented the red cross in 1859.
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John Brown planned to attack the South and lead a slave rebellion.
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Abe Lincoln On May 1 1860 Abe Lincoln was elected our 16th president
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Confederate States Formed
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The civil war begins (5 weeks after Lincoln elected president)
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The Civil War Began on April 12th 1861
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The Battle of Bullrun lost more men than any other battle
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Civil war at its hight North vs. South bringing more deaths than ever seen, and by 1863 lost 2% of population.
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By may of 1862 17,000 had been killed in the civil war
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Slavery was abolished on June 1st 1863
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IN july of 1863 more than half of the slaves that where freed joined the North in the civil war.
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The Civil war Ended on May 10th 1865
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In the summer of 1865 there where 3 million Buffalo that roamed the west
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It took donations from all over America, 120,000, to assemble the statue of liberty
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It took 25 years for Lady Liberty to oxidize and turn green.
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1868 The railroad extend west.
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Teddy Blue is 1 of about 20,000 cowboys in the west.
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Andrew Carnagy developed a new way to make steel
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Barbwire was invented in 1873
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3 Trilion Locus terrorised the west by eatin every bit of crop, people called this the Locust Plague
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30 million Buffalo killed in 10 years
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Carnagey created massive stoves that helpped mass produce steel
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Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879 and had it patened in 1880.
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Crime and poverty is at its height in 1890
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In 1892 2 million ft of lumber will be cut in Nebraska alone.
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The Hamil Brothers strike oil in Texas creating an ecinomic Boom.
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Texaco was invented after the discovery of oil in Texas.
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air conditioners where invented in 1902
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major cities have sewer systems
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Henry Ford invented the Model T which was the first automobile.
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Every city in America has a sewer system
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was the worst work disaster untill September 11 2001.
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Henry ford creates the assembly line in 1913, helps mass produce items.
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Rosco Sheler is the first car salesmen
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Red summer were race riots that exploded in a number of cities in both the North and South.
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The 1st muscle cars where created in The late summer of 1919
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the 1920's where a big Boomtime in America
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800 Films produced in L.A./ Hollywood
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Model T was made affordable to Americans.
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Stock Market Crash was the begining of a National Depression.
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6 Billion dollars were spent in credit
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Bank wouldnt give out any loans
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Construction on the worlds largest dam, the Hoover Dam, had begun on march 4th 1931
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In 1933 there where 38 states that didnt have a single bank.
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In 1934 the midwest was getting pounded with dust storms.
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Radios linked America together in 1935
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On April 14th 1935, the biggest dust storm in American history hit America.
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The Hoover dam was finished on september 30th 1935 2 years ahead of schedule.
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In 1940 the only computer available was the size of a Greyhound bus
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Mt. Rushmore was created and became the worlds biggest monument.
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1 million african american soldiers were in WWII/
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Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly.
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The Manhaten Project, that lead the Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki, was started in
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1 baby every 10 seconds.
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2 million cars are in America
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America had its first intercontinental missile in 1959.
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Martin Luther King Jr. lead thousands of black men and women to the Washington monument and gave hit "I Have a Dream" speech.
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First E-mail ever sent in 1969
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Neil Armstrong was the 1st man on the moon, and he was from the United States.
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Woodstock was the music event of the decade and to this day the single most profound event in the history of music
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Nixon was the first president to resign from office
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The Vietnam war ended in October of 1975.
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The first PC wasinvented in 1976
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Credit was cheap and everyone used it in the 1980s
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On Janurary 27 1986 the Challanger Exploded a few seconds after lift off kill 7 people including a school teacher
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NASA had one of its buisiest years in 1986
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More people have Credit cards than who vote
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The coldwar ended in 1989
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All of the United States started rapidly buying and useing computers.
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On Seprtember 11, 2001 2 planes hit the World Trade Center and 1 hit the pentagon and one, that believedto be headed to the whitehouse, hit a field in Pennsalviania.
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Telegraph connects the country to each other, like cell phones do today
