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A is for AMERICA!!!

Started as colonies from Britian

Didn't gain independence until 1861

First nation to send a man to the moon

B is for Britain

Set up colonies in America

Created the intolerable acts

Had a system with mercantilism with the colonies

C is for Cottono

Cotton was a cash crop in the south

The cotton gin re birthed slavery

Was rarely grown until the cotton gin

D is for the DoI

Didn't really give independence to america

Contained a declaration of sediments.

One of the last straws in escalating the revolutionary war

E is for the Erie Canal

Made New York a boom town

Was a very ambitious project

At the start, was criticized for being a waste of money

F is for the French and Indian war

Put Britain in debt

Made Britain increase taxes on the colonies

Started the downfall into the revolutionary war

G is for Georgia

Was part of the confederacy

Was one of the orginal colonies

Was a slave state back when it was legal

H is for Henry Clay

Nicknamed the great compromiser

Made several important compromises in preserving the United states

Had a key role in creating the great compromise