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1756 - 1763 - The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
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1775 - 1783 - The
American Revolution creates the United States of America. The
Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes and total
power to legislate any laws governing the American colonies
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July 4, 1776 -
United States Declaration of Independence
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July 10, 1778 -
France declares war against Britain and makes an alliance with
the American revolutionary forces
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September 3, 1783
- The Treaty of Paris is signed by the victorious United
States and the defeated Great Britain
Facts about
the History of Oregon History - The Early 1800's
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1812 - 1815 - The
War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a
stalemate but
confirmed America's Independence
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1822-1829 -
William H Ashley exploration and the discovery of a central
route to the Pacific
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1824 - Alexander
Ross was the leader of the Hudson's Bay Company's 1824
trapping expedition into Snake Country during the fur trade
era in Shoshone country
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1828 - Peter Skene
Ogden (1794-1854) working for the Hudson's Bay Company led
five trapping expeditions to the "Snake Country" between
1828-1829
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1829 - 1830
William Lewis Sublette (1799–1845) took the first wagon trains
along the route (Oregon Trail) to the Rocky Mountains
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1830 - John Work,
a trader of the Hudson's Bay Company part of the trapping
expedition to the Snake Country
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1832 and 1834 -
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth organized and led two expeditions to
the fur country. He was accompanied by John Kirk Townsend a
young ornithologist, and Thomas Nuttall, a botanist on his
second expedition
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1842 Joseph and
Louis Papin were the first white settlers in Topeka. They
established
Papin's Ferry which ferried the wagons across the Kansas River
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1846 - The
Applegate Trail - Was blazed by brothers Lindsay, Jesse, and
Charles Applegate as an alternative route to Oregon
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1848 Fort Kearny
was established
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1849 - Gold
discovered in California causing the Oregon Trail to be
labelled the California Trail by California-bound travellers
Facts about the
History of Oregon History - The American Civil War
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1861 - 1865 The
American Civil War. In 1859 John Brown raided Harpers Ferry
and set in
motion events that led directly to the outbreak of the Civil
War. Abraham Lincoln, a
known opponent of slavery, was elected president and in 1861
the South Secedes. The
initial Secession of South Carolina was followed by the
secession of Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas,
Tennessee, and North Carolina.
These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States
of America. The
bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the
American Civil War.
The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the
end of the Confederacy.
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1865 December 6 -
The Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the
U.S Constitution is ratified, thus officially abolishing
slavery
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1872-73 - Modoc
War - Kientpoos, known to the settlers as Captain Jack, and
his Modocs fled from their reservation to Tule Lake, where
they held out against soldiers for six months. Captain Jack
was hanged
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1898-1901 The
Spanish American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris
the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
Origin of the name
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