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1492

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Columbus reaches America

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1502

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First African slaves arrive in spanish america

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1565

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St. Augustine is founded in Florida

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1607

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Jamestown founded by the London Company

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1608

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French found Quebec

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1619

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First African people enslaved to Virginia

Houses of Burgesses Meets in Virginia

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1620

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Plymouth Colony founded

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1624

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Dutch Establish New York

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1630

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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1634

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Maryland

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1636

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Roger Williams founds Rhode Island

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1647

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Massachusetts requires public schools

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13
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1664

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New Jersey established

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14
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1675

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King Phillip’s War

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1676

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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1681

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William Penn founds Pennsylvania

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1685

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Edict of Nantes revoked, Huguenots migrate to North America

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1686

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Dominion of New England

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1688

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Glorious Revolution

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20
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1734

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Great Awakening begins in Massachusetts

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21
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1739

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Stono Slave Rebellion

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22
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1740’s

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Indigo produced in South Carolina

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1732

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Georgia founded

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24
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1756-1763

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Seven Year’s War

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25
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1763

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Treaty of Paris (ended 7 years war)

Proclamation of 1763 (forbade settlement past Appalachian mountains)

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1764

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Sugar Act (tax on sugar)
Currency Act (regulated paper money)
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1765

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Stamp Act (tax on stapes = all printed goods, first tax to directly be for raising money, not regulating commerce)
Sons of Liberty
Mutiny Act (must harbor and feed British soldiers)
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1766

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Stamp Act repealed
Declaratory Act (Parliament has total authority over the colonies)
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1767

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Townshend Acts (duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea)

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1770

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Townshend Acts repealed (expect for tea)

Boston Massacre

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31
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1772

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Committees of Correspondence in Boston

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32
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1774

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Intolerable/Coercive Acts
First Continental Congress (rejected british authority, repealing of all laws since 1763, military preparations, boycott British, meet next spring)

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1773

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Boston Tea Party

34
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1775

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Battle of Lexington and Concord

Second Continental Congress

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1776

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Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

36
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1783

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Treaty of Paris (US independence)

37
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1781

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Articles of Confederation ratified

38
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1787

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Constitutional Convention

Ratification of the Constitution

39
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1794

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Whiskey Rebellion

40
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1800

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Jefferson elected president

Capital moves to DC

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1777

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Articles of Confederation written

42
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1786

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Shay’s rebellion

43
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1787

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Northwestern ordinances

44
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1803

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Louisiana Purchase

Supreme court establishes judicial review in Marbury vs Madison

45
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1808

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Congress bans slave importation to US

46
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1796

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John Adams President

47
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1793

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Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney

48
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1804

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Jefferson Reelected

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1807

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Embargo

50
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1808

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Madison Elected

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1814

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Hartford Convention

52
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1815

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Jackson wins Battle of New Orleans

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1816

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Second Bank of the United States

Monroe elected president

54
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1820

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Missouri Compromise

Monroe reelected

55
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1823

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Monroe Doctrine

56
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1824

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John Quincy Adams elected

57
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1828

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Tariff of abominations

58
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1828

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Andrew Jackson elected

59
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1830

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Jackson passes Indian Removal Act

60
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1832

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Bank Veto
Jackson Reelected
Nullification Crisis

61
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1835

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Taney Chief Justice

62
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1816

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American Colonization Society

63
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1838

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Trail of Tears

64
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1841

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Brook Farm

65
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1848

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Seneca Falls Convention

66
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1813

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Lowell Mills

67
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1825

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Erie Canal

68
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1830’s

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Irish Immigration

Railroads

69
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1834

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Lowell Mills women strike

70
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1831

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Nat Turner’s rebellion

71
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1833

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American AntiSlavery society

72
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1844

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Mormon leader Joseph Smith killed

73
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1852

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin

74
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1848

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treaty of Guadaloupe Hildago ends Mexican War

75
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1850

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Compromise of 1850 (fugitive slave law!)

76
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1854

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Kansas Nebraska Act

77
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1856

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Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

78
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1857

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Dred Scott Case

79
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1860

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South Carolina Secedes

Lincoln Elected President

80
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1861

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Fort Sumter

Confederacy Forms

81
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1859

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John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry

82
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1863

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Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Adress
NYC Draft Riots