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Andrew Jackson In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia. In 1776, writing to the Massachusetts General Court, Washington exposed the army’s mounting crisis. Far fewer arms have been collected from discharged soldiers at year’s end than expected, and nearly all of those have already been reissued to recruits. He urges Massachusetts to gather arms from towns immediately. In 17

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Andrew Jackson In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia. In 1776, writing to the Massachusetts General Court, Washington exposed the army’s mounting crisis. Far fewer arms have been collected from discharged soldiers at year’s end than expected, and nearly all of those have already been reissued to recruits. He urges Massachusetts to gather arms from towns immediately. In 17

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"The third will be found in that clause which declares, that congress shall have power "to establish an UNIFORM RULE of naturalization throughout the United States." This must necessarily be exclusive, because if each state had the power to prescribe a DISTRINCT RULE, there could be no UNIFORM RULE." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper #32

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Historical Charleston Museum - this one burned and has been replaced with a plain brick building. In 1773, the oldest public museum in the United States was established in colonial Charleston , South Carolina. Its original purpose was to promote a better understanding of agriculture and herbal medicine in the area. In 1776, nearly two weeks after the failed American assault on Quebec, Washington remained unaware of the defeat or of Richard Montgomery’s death. He writes Montg

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In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. In 1776, in Washington's General Orders, he notes that "the day dawns tense and watchful at Cambridge. Last night, under cover of darkness, Major Thomas Knowlton and a chosen party performed a raid near the enemy’s works on Bunker Hill, burning targeted houses without firing a single shot." In 1779, after a short but heavy bombardment by the British navy, Fort Morris s

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In 1675, First American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co.). In 1790, George Washington delivers first State of the Union address. In 1806, Explorer William Clark views skeleton of a 105 ft whale washed up on Cannon Beach, inhabited by the Tillamook Nation (modern Oregon). In 1815, U.S. General Andrew Jackson defeated Great Britain in the Battle of New Orleans , the final engagement in the War of 1812 . In 1835, US national debt reaches $0 for the first and on

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Second Bank of the United States In 1608, Jamestown, VA is destroyed by fire. In 1776, In a letter to Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull, Washington warns that British ships fitting out in Boston are likely bound for New York. If the enemy seizes the city and the North River, he writes, they will command the country and open communication with Canada. He resolves to send Charles Lee ahead, gathering winter volunteers and disarming suspected loyalists. In 1789, the first U

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