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| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement, was founded in 1607 |
| Declaration of Independence | signed on July 4, 1776 |
| Constitution of the United States | Written in 1787 |
| Louisiana Territory | President Thomas Jefferson purchased in 1803 from France |
| Civil War | fought from 1861-1865 |
| Lexington and Concord Massachusetts | The opening shots of the American Revolution were fired here in April 1775 |
| Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | site where the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution were written |
| Battle of Saratoga | turning point of the the American Revolution |
| Yorktown, Virginia | The British defeat here by George Washington's trops signaled the end of the American Revolution |
| Fort Sumter in South Carolina | The first shots of the Civil War were fired here |
| Battle of Gettysburg | The turning point in the Civil War for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North Again. |
| Vicksburg, Mississippi | The capture of this location by the North in 1863, effectiviely split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union |
| Appomattox Court House | is the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War. |
