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The italian explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips from the Atlantic Ocean to Spain. He was determined to find a direct route west from Europe to Asia but instead discovered the New World and West Indies.
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Herman Cortes is one of the most well known Spanish conquistadors, He invaded Mexico and in doing so he conquered the Aztecs.
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Bartolome critized the Spanish because he felt they where using chirst as as excuse.
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Jamestown is Americas first permanent English colony.
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Bacon's Rebellion was against Eastern Virgnias. As differences grew up between the frontier farmers and the farmers of the coast.
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The King Phillip War was a conflict between the Colonist and the Native Americans in England.
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The war was fought bwtween Britain and France. At the end of the war the British took France.
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In 1763 the Ottawa Indians started a war of their own against thr British and the settlers, The Ottawas had been the main fur trading partners of the French, and felt that the French had no right to give Insian land to the British.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War.
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The Treaty of Paris was negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, it also ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence
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This Treaty ended the Northwest Indian War in the country and limited land to the north and west and required 11 Ameircsn Indian Nations to give up their territory.
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This purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, Louisiana claimed territory in North America purchased by the United States.
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This was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States,
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Tecumesh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known as Tecumseh's Confederacy. Tecumesh had a brother named Tenskwatawa who was akso known as The Prophet. Tecumseh's Confederation became linked with his brother's religious movement.During the War of 1812, they allied themselves with the British against the United States. During the conflict, Tecumseh lost his life at the Battle, The Prophet then sought to assume control of his brother's follow but it didnt
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The Creek War was also known as the Red Stick War. This war was a regional war between opposing Creeka, European empires, and the United States.
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The Indian Removal Act was passed during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. This law allowed the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River.
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This supreme court case of Worcester challenged the Indian Removal, and led to the Trail of Tears.
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In the Trail of Tears 150,000 Cherokess were forced to walk fom their homes to the Indian Terriority in Oklahoma. The government gave them rotten grain to eat and badly made wagons to travel in.
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This trail was the major route west.
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James Marshall discovered gold unexpectedly while overseeing construction of a sawmill on the American River.
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The new law established a three-fold homestead process, filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title.
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The Treaty of Fort Laramie was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brule bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation. The black hills which are the US oldest set of mountains. Lakota people believe that the Black Hills are sacred and should be returned for land minerals.
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In this battle Geroge Cluster found gold in the Black Hills of Dakota.
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The Nez Peace was an armed conflict between several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies
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In the Sand Creek Massacre seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia embarked on an attack of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian villages
