Decisive Moments in American History, 2010
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1610
1664
1763
1773
1776
1782
1787
1801
1825
1832-33
1844
1846-48
1859
1860
1861
1862
1862
1863
1864
1865
1875
| As much as nine-tenths of the indigenous population of the Americans died in less than a generation from European pathogens. |
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| Fort Caroline destroyed | |
| Jamestown saved | |
| British take Manhattan |
| Pontiac's War |
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| Boston Tea Party | |
| Trenton and Princeton | |
| Franklin negotiates peace |
| Virginia Plan | |
| Chief Justice John Marshall appointed | |
| Erie Canal finished |
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| Nullification Crisis |
| Morse's first telegram | |
| Polk's Mexican War |
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| First oil strike |
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| Lincoln's Copper Union speech |
| Fort Sumter | |
| Battle of the Ironclads | |
| Gettysburg and Vicksburg | |
| Lincoln re-elected |
| Lee surrenders | |
| Bell's telephone |
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