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Below are exercises which workshop participants may copy to a sandbox and edit. Use [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] or create one as a subpage of your user page. ''(Workshop participants and Workshop project editors, please discuss the exercises, or suggest new or replacement exercises on this project page's talk page.)''
'''Be careful <u>not</u> to edit on this page.'''<br>
''We can fix it if you do so, just tell us right away.''
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If you are new to Wikipedia, start from the first exercise. If you have some experience, skip the parts with which you already are familiar. If you finish the exercises, study the [[Wikipedia:Cheatsheet]] and follow links to study whatever subject you need to explore more.
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==Civil War era (1849–1865)==
==Compromise of 1850
The issue of slavery in the new territories was seemingly settled by the Compromise of 1850 brokered by Whig Henry Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas.
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If you see a phrase below in (parenthesis) this is the ''name of an article'' which goes ''before'' the appropriate phrase in a [[WP:piped link]]. Over time you will learn how to find the name of relevant articles to create such piped links. See the relevant paragraphs in the [[History of the United States]] article to check what you missed.
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The history of the United States traditionally starts with the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by [[Native Americans in the United States]] Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by [[European colonization of the Americas]] European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The largest settlements were by the English on the East Coast, starting in 1607. By the 1770s the Thirteen Colonies contained two and half million people, were prosperous, and had developed their own political and legal systems. After the American Revolution the
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The [[women's suffrage in the United States]] women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, and the Declaration of Sentiments demanding equal rights for women. Many of the activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement. The women's rights campaign during "first-wave feminism" was led by Mott, Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, among many others. The movement reorganized after the Civil War, gaining experienced campaigners, many of whom had worked for prohibition in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/topstories/8927698.Dame_Elizabeth_Taylor_dies_aged_79/ by Alex Hayes "Hampstead Garden Suburb born Dame Elizabeth Taylor dies aged 79" Times of London March 24, 2011
http://books.google.com/books?id=ScE8F_pMuAAC ''Elizabeth'' by J. Randy Taraborrelli Grand Central Publishing 2006 {{ISBN
Alexander Walker ISBN: 978-0802113351le 1990 Elizabeth: the life of Elizabeth Taylor G. Weidenfeld Publishers p. 22.
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Per [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages]], look at the following talk pages as examples of how editors communicate. Note editors don't always follow formatting rules for talk pages. [[Talk:Talk:History of the United States]] - [[Talk:Bird]] -[[Talk:Elizabeth Taylor]]
Then ''copy the conversation below to a sandbox'' and format it, including using
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I think this article about this wealthy family is very confusing. What can we do about it? [Signed User:#1]
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