| 1773 |
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Boston Tea Party signals start of American Revolution |
| 1776 |
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America declares independence from Britain |
| 1781 |
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British finally surrender to Americans at Yorktown |
| 1787 |
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American Constitution drafted |
| 1789 |
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George Washington becomes first American President |
| 1801 |
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Thomas Jefferson becomes American President |
| 1803 |
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Napoleon sells Louisiana to America to finance his wars |
| 1804 |
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark start fact-finding voyage across America |
| 1812 |
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French and British forces repel American attacks on Canada |
| 1814 |
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British forces burn Washington before negotiating peace for Canada |
| 1819 |
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Spain cedes Florida territory to America |
| 1826 |
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die |
| 1830 |
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Mormon sect founded by Joseph Smith |
| 1838 |
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Trail of Tears - mass relocation of American Indians |
| 1840 |
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Upper and Lower Canada re-unified |
| 1848 |
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Texas becomes part of America after wars with Mexico |
| 1848 |
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California Gold Rush begins |
| 1849 |
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Henry David Thoreau publishes "Civil Disobedience" |
| 1849 |
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Self-government established in Canada |
| 1861 |
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Abraham Lincoln becomes President of America |
| 1861 |
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Start of American Civil War |
| 1863 |
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Abraham Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address speech |
| 1865 |
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End of American Civil War |
| 1865 |
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Abolition of slavery in America |
| 1866 |
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Anti-black Ku Klux Klan formed |
| 1867 |
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America buys Alaska from Russia |
| 1867 |
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Confederation of Canada |
| 1876 |
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Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone |
| 1876 |
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Custers Last Stand - killed fighting in Indian Wars |
| 1877 |
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Thomas Edison invents first phonograph |
| 1878 |
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Thomas Edison develops electric light |
| 1881 |
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Wyatt Earp in OK Corral gunfight |
| 1882 |
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Jesse James shot by own gang member |
| 1885 |
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George Eastman markets first box camera |
| 1886 |
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All American Indians now in reservations |
| 1892 |
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Death of Walt Whitman (poet) |
| 1896 |
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Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska and Yukon |
| 1903 |
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Wright Brothers make first controlled flight in aeroplane |
| 1903 |
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Henry Ford designs first mass-produced cars |
| 1909 |
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American Robert Peary first to reach North Pole |
