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The compass was invented over 2000 years ago in Han dynasty China. They were made of lodestone which is a naturally magnetized stone.
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Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese and was originally used for fireworks. Until around 50 years later when people realized it could also be used as a weapon.
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Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk became 5 nations united under the "Great Tree of Peace"
Mohawk - "People of the Great Flint"
Oneida - "People of the Standing Stone"
Onondaga - "People of the Hills"
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The printing press was invented in Germany by Goldsmith Johannes Gutenburg. It allowed us to share large amounts of information quickly.
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Lands in the Bahamas
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Prior to the Europeans contact with the new world 5(which later became 6) indigenous tribes came together to form the Iroquois nation in what is now upstate NY Created by the nations Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and Cayuga
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Pre-contact
Native American origin and cultures
Early Exploration
The Spanish
The French
The English
Roanoke Island
Jamestown
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The English colonies first permanent settlement in America. It was established in Virginia. It was name after their current King James I.
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North American small pox epidemic was responsible for 50-90% of native American deaths.
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The development of tobacco as a cash crop created a huge demand for labor and 1619 two dozen African slaves were brought to Virginia. The slave population continued to increase rapidly as it boosted the American colonial economy. It’s hard to understand what specifly was conceiderd a slave at the time since there were not laws regarding slavery until the 1660’s. The shift to these laws was caused by the problems of rebellion among the white indentured servants.
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The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts Before leaving their ship 41 male passengers signed The Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. (It was originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth)
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King Phillips war
Bacons rebellion
Mayflower compact
First thanksgiving
Plymouth colony
Massachusetts Bay colony
Benjamin Franklin
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The first 20 enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia
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The Europeans teamed up with other native tribes against the Pequot. It ended in the Mystic Massacre in which the Pequots had been completely wiped out. It took place from 1636-37. The Mystic Massacre was a rehearsal for, 40 years later, King Phillips war.
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(Aka the Great Narragansett War or Metacomet) It was the Narragansetts last effort to stop English settlement on their native lands. It took place from 1675-76. It was a war that set the Native Americans and the British against each other.
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The Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Nation making it become more commonly known as the Six Nations
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This war breaks out in north America and would pit the British and the natives their allied with and the French and their native allies this war would merge with a greater conflict known as the seven years war.
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The French, British, and Spanish battled over colonies in the New World that lasted for 9 years. The french lost to the british and in 1763 with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris it was finally over.
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Stamp act published-1765
Boston massacre-March 5, 1770
Sons of Liberty a loosely organized secret society-1765 to 1776
Boston tea party-1773
Taxation and representation-1776
First continental congress-October 22, 1774
Common sense by Tomas Paine-1775 to 1776
American revolution-1775
Second continental Congress-May 10, 1775
Paul revers ride-1775
War of independence-1775 to 1783
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Why don't the British pronounce their t's?
Because we spilled all of it!
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The Declaration of Independence solidified the 13 American colonies separation from Great Britain. The Declaration was made almost in form of a breakup letter explaining why they were seeking independence and gave the colonists a base to build they're new government off of.
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It was a huge turning point in the American revolution the outcome persuaded the French, Spanish and Dutch to join the colonists cause against a common enemy giving the colonist the upper hand for the first time.
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Articles of confederation-1777
Constitutional convention-1787
Washington
Hamilton and the federalist
She’s rebellion-1786
Jefferson and Republicans
Eli Whitney
Samuel Slater
Alien and sedition acts
Louisiana purchase
Lewis and Clark
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Shay’s Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts made up of angry farmers led by Daniel Shay. They marched on local courthouses to prevent foreclosures on people’s farms and were easily defeated by state militia. Took place in and around Springfield and went on from 1786 and 1787.
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Desire for a strong central government led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The completed document was submitted to the states for ratification. The Federalist Papers, largely the work of Alexander Hamilton, remains the most cogent analysis of the U.S. Constitution. -
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Samuel Slater aka the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" though he was in UK better known as "Slater the Traitor" for introducing the first water-powered cotton mill to the American colonies. This was a big deal because at the time Britain had banned the export of any industrial machinery or designs which he got around by memorizing the machine schematics before traveling to America in 1789. What he did boosted the textile industry which was important for the Industrial Revolution.
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First industrial revolution
Andrew Jackson
Nat Turner rebellion
Emerson
Longfellow
Whitman
Manifest destiny
The Alamo
Frederick Douglass
California gold rush
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The state of Indiana abolished all restrictions on voting rights for white men inspiring other states to ditch the property requirements as well.
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Slavery
Underground Railroad
Lincoln
Civil war
Gettysburg
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August 22,1831 the bloodiest slave revolt in American history took place. This event cause much controversy about the abolishment of slavery not that there wasn't a lot already but inspired the south to hold a harsher stance against abolitionists.
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The 14th amendment was ratified.
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March 25, 1873 Easter Sunday a group of armed African Americans guarded the courthouse at which the Kellogg's administration was declaring 2 republicans the winners. A large force of armed white democrats massacred them and the court house
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Railroad Era
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Henry Ford
George Westinghouse
Immigration
Labor Movement
Sherman Antitrust Act
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Mark Twain
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Big Stick Diplomacy
Panama Canal
World War I
Versailles
The Negro leagues
League of Nations
Black Sox Scandal
Harding scandals
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On January 11,1917 Alice Paul founder of the National Women's Party began with the party to picket the white house. They were arrested and many went on a hunger strike and were abused and force fed. News of there mistreatment spread creating public outrage.
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Women were given the right to vote.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
First 100 days
Albert Einstein
Manhattan Project
J Edgar Hoover
War in Europe
Adolf Hitler
The Holocaust
Jesse Owens
Pearl Harbor
World War II
War in Pacific
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In 1960 the FDA announced the formal approval of birth control for contraceptive use. this was a game changer for married women as they could now hold a job without the risk of becoming pregnant.
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in April Eugene "Bull" Connor ordered the Birmingham fire department to break up protesters by using the fire hoes turned on high pressure and police to bring dogs to bite and scare protesters this gain news coverage
President JFK was moved enough by the protesters that he called for a new civil rights act on June 11 he delivered a national address calling for a new federal civil rights legislation
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Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed by republican President Ronald Regan gaining international recognition as the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice! -
Ibram Xolani Kendi was born his is an American author, professor, anti-racist activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in America. Author of "How to be an Anti-Racist" -
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The Notorious RBG was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1993 to 2020 and was a bad*** equal rights activist! -
Four coordinated terrorist attacks targeting the World Trade Center (AA 11 and UA 175) The Pentagon (AA 77) U.S. Capitol/the White House by the Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 -
It was close as legendaw had gotten a hold of one of Brumblins artifacts than with Pandor stealing from ledgendaw Brumblin was push back to 3rd but the game wasn't over yet. With Lilah's amazing kick she managed to score a goal winning the soccer event and soon after aliyah's quick wit in chess would send us back into the running. Last but not least Chris's speed would gain us the last artifact of the Hunt.
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After President Christopher "Chips" Carrara was mysteriously assassinated, with an ax... President Virginia Steen is sworn into office almost immediately.
