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The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts in April 1775.

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Concord, Massachusetts was the site of the first battle of the American Revolution.

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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the American Revolution.

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The British defeat at Yorktown, Virginia by George Washington’s troops signaled the end of the American Revolution.

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The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, in South Carolina.

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The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again.

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The capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi by the North in 1863, effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.

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Appomattox Court House is the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.

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Mercantilism is an economic theory that a country’s strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country.

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An abolitionist was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.