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Founding Days

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The United States declared its independence from Great Britain in this historic year.
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This Virginia statesman served as the first president of the United States.
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Ratified in 1791, these first ten amendments to the Constitution protect individual liberties.
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Adopted by the Continental Congress, this founding document summarized the motivations for seeking autonomy.
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Serving as the nation's first governing framework, this document reserved most power for the individual states.

Land and Expansion

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Triggered by the discovery of gold in 1848, this event brought thousands of migrants to California.
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Settlers used this famous wagon route to travel from Missouri to the fertile valleys of the Pacific Northwest.
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In 1803, the United States acquired a vast territory from France, effectively doubling the size of the nation.
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Through this 1854 treaty, the United States purchased land from Mexico to complete a southern transcontinental rail route.
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Signed in 1819, this agreement between the U.S. and Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

Civil War Times

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Fought in July 1863, this Pennsylvania battle is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War.
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He served as the 16th president during the American Civil War.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at this Virginia location in April 1865.
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This term refers to the Northern states that fought to remain part of a single nation.
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This executive order, issued by Lincoln in 1863, declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.

Famous Firsts

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She made history as the first woman to run for president of the United States in 1872.
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Her refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
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In 1983, she became the first American woman to fly into outer space.
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This civil rights attorney became the first Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
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He was the first human to step onto the surface of the moon in 1969.

World War Years

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The surprise 1941 attack on this Hawaiian naval base led the U.S. to enter World War II.
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On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched this massive seaborne invasion on the beaches of Normandy.
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He was the U.S. president who led the nation for most of World War II.
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Intercepted in 1917, this message proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States.
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This secret research effort developed the world's first nuclear weapons during the 1940s.

The Recent Past

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This political scandal in the early 1970s led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
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Terrorist attacks on this date in 2001 forever changed American national security.
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This 1962 confrontation over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba brought the world to the brink of war.
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In 1969, NASA successfully landed humans on the lunar surface for the first time.
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Brokered by Jimmy Carter in 1978, this framework led to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
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