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10 Cards in this Set
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1607
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This is the year that Jamestown, the first permanent English colony, was established in America.
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1776
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Independance was declared from Great Britian, the Declaration of Independance was written and signed
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1787
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The Constitution of the United States is completed and signed.
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1803
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The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States
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1861-1865
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The American Civil War
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Samuel Adams
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He was gifted at stirring up protests and organized the boycott of British goods. He also stirred up anti-British sentiment after the Boston Massacre when British soldiers fired upon colonists in Boston during a protest, killing five and injuring ten others.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Writer, inventor, diplomat, political leader, oldest signer of the Declaration of Independance, oldest signer of the Constitution
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King George III
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the British King who ruled the colonies
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George Washington
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the first president of the United States; commander of the continental army
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Thomas Jefferson
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Wrote the Declaration of Independance, the 3rd president of the United States
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