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The gold rush at Sutter's Mill was when gold was discovered at Captain John A. Sutter and James W. Marshall's sawmill. They found gold in the American River by the mill. When people found out, bad ...
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo called for Mexico to cede 55% of it's territory (present day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah) in exchange for 15 million dol...
The Seneca Falls Convention was when Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Lucria Mott came to an anti-slavery convention where they weren't allowed. Eight years later they had a convention to discuss womens...
The Irish Potato Famine started when a mysterious fog hovered over the potato fields. The fog was actually an airborne fungus. Winds from Southern England had carried it. It turned the potatoes bla...
Joseph Smith was a mormon who was very brave and stood up to his authorities. He made a statement and eight days after he fufilled it, he was murdered in Carthage prison.
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the Mississippi River and migrate to an area in present day Oklahoma. They called it the trail of tears because of the bad effects. They h...
The panic of 1837 was when Martin Von Buren became president. He hurt the second bank of the united states by moving federal funds to smaller state banks. This was the worst economic depression tha...
The alamo was a battle to fight for texas freedom.
The Lowell Mill Labor Strike was when more mills went into overproduction. This led to a drop in prices and profits. So they cut the wages and sped up the pace of work. The Lowell girls didn't thin...
The Hayne-Webster Debate was when they wanted to limit the sales of western lands. Daniel Webster, and Robert Young Hayne debated over the states rights.
This new publish of the Webster's Dictionary had over five thousand more words than Samuel Johnson's dictionary. When he first printed it, it had a sales volume of 100,000,000 copies. The dictionar...
The election of 1828 was a mud-slinging contest. John Quincy Adams thought that he had his presidency stolen from him when Jackson won. There were disputes and rumors that Adams had stolen money to...
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