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The Thirteen Colonies
The thirteen colonies that joined together to become the United States of America were but a part of the first British Empire. They were the product...
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Colonization and Settlement, 1585–1763
American colonial history belongs to what scholars call the early modern period. As such, it is part of a bridge between markedly different eras in the history of the western world...
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Education Reform in Antebellum America
Education reform is often at the heart of all great reform struggles.[1]
By the 1820s Americans were...
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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
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Native American Discoveries of Europe
Native Americans discovered Europe at the same time Europeans discovered America. As far as we know, no birch bark canoes caught the gulf stream to...
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Roanoke found deserted
John White returned to Roanoke with more English colonists to find the settlement deserted. The settlers there may have moved on or been attacked by American Indians, but their fate was never confirmed, leaving Roanoke’s abandonment a mystery.
Glossary Term – Event
Postponement of Constitution vote in North Carolina
North Carolina postponed the vote on ratification of the Constitution, proposing a list of amendments to be adopted first.
Glossary Term – Event
Tuscarora War
The Tuscarora War began in North Carolina when Tuscarora Indians attacked white settlers in retaliation for white encroachment and raids on Tuscarora villages. The Indian resistance was crushed in 1713, and a formal treaty between the Tuscaroras and the government of North Carolina was signed in 1715.