Most Important Events: The French And Indian War

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The first most important event that happened was the french and indian war or the seven year war because it lasted seven years long. Its when the french and indians came together to defeat the british and become the strongest lands.The reason I think this is the most important wars is it is one of the longest wars and there were lots of losses and death at the time.The reason I think it is important is because it shows how long wars could be and the men that had to go through seven years of war without stopping.It takes some people alot of risk and challenging for them to live in some condisions.
The second most important event was 9/11 what happened was two plans that have terrorists on them crashed into the tallest two buildings in new york city and they were called the twin towers.Why I think it is important is they still have the holes for that memory and many peoples death.It
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The fourth most important is the civil war because it was the survival of the union or independence for the confederacy. The reason I think it is important is that it was one of the most important wars that we have ever had at that time.So it showed improvement and they got better at planning and getting ready for wars and they could stratigies with eachothers.Without this war we would not have showned them what we can do and how strong we are as a country.The only reason i dont like this war is that to many people died for that war and thats not right even if they new the

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