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John Cabot reaches Newfoundland
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1497
Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida from Spain
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1513
Jacques Cartier explores Canada
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1536
Hernando de Soto explores The South
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1539-41
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado reaches New Mexico
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1540-42
Roanoke Colony (Virginia)
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1585-90
Jamestown, Virginia
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1607
Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec
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1608
the Mayflower
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1620
the English capture New Amsterdam and Fort Orange
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1664
William Penn founds Pennsylvania
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1682
New Orleans founded by the French
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1718
James Oglethorpe founds Savannah in Georgia
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1733
Vitus Bering discovers Alaska
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1741
French and Indian War
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1754-63
battle of Quebec
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1759
Boston Massacre
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1770
Boston Tea Party
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1773
American War of Independence
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1775-83
Declaration of Independence
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1776, July 4th
battle of Saratoga
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1777
battle of Yorktown
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1781
Treaty of Paris
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1783
Northwest Ordinance
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1787
The US Constitution signed
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1787
Bill of Rights
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1791
Cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney
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1793
Washington D.C. becomes the capital
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1800
Marbury vs. Madison
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1803
Louisiana Purchase
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1803
Lewis and Clark expedition
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1804-06
Second War of Independence
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1812-15
The Star Spangled Banner written
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1814
Battle of New Orleans
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1815
Acquisition of Florida
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1819
Missouri Compromise
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1820
Monroe's Doctrine
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1823
Indian Removal Act
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1830
Texas becomes a republic
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1836
Texas joins the Union
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1845
Mexican War
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1846-48
Oregon Treaty
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1846
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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1848
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1854
American Civil War
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1861-65
Emancipation Act
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1863
battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
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1863
The Reconstruction
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1865-77
Alaska Purchase
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1867
Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
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1876
battle of Little BigHorn
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1876
Wounded Knee
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1890
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1896
Spanish-American War
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1898
Annexation of Hawaii
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1898

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