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Jamestown
104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. They named their town after their King. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
French & Indian War
The French & Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
Boston Massacre
Late in the afternoon, on March 5, a crowd of jeering Bostonians slinging snowballs gathered around a small group of British soldiers gaurding the Boston Customs House. The soldiers became enraged after one of them had been hit, and they fired into the crowd, even though they were under orders not to fire. Five colonists were shot and killed. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
American Revolution
The war that gave Americans independence. It was the British vs. the Patriots or American colonists. The American Revolution was fought between 1775 and 1783, and was the result of increasing colonial unhappiness with British rule. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years,fought by the United States and Great Britain. The White House and Capitol were burned to the ground during the invasion from the British, but America came out with the victory. -
Trail of Tears
As a part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Civil War
pitted the Union against the Confederate States of America and resulted in the death of more than 620,000 with millions more injured. -
Gettysburg Adress
A speech by the U.S president Abraham Lincoln, one of the best known in american history.
