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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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They were looking for resources

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Virginia Company

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A joint stock company

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Jamestown

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First english settlement

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John Smith

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One of the founders of Jamestown

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Pocahontas

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Helped Jamestown by talking to the indians for peace,

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John rolfe

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First to sell tobacco in England

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Tobacco

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Helped Jamestown and Virginia survive

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Bacons Rebellion

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Led by Nathanial Bacon , because restricted expansion west

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Plymouth Colony

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Colony of pilgrims

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Pilgrims

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Arrived on the mayflower to America

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Mayflower

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Ship the Pilgrims used

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Mayflower Compact

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First concept of government from the pilgrims after the mayflower

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William Bradford

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Lead the pilgrims for 30 years and helped with thanksgiving

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Squanto and Samoset

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Helped native Americans make peace with native Americans

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Puritans

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Formed Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Established in 1629

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John Winthrop

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Govenor of Mass. Bay colony

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Kicked from Massachusetts and formed rhode island

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Salem Witch Trials

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Many citizens were accused of witchcraft and were killed

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William Penn

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A quaker that founded Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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Tolerant to other religions and were pacifists

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Pacifists

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Refused to use violence

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Setup the Georgia, Devidor

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First Great Awakening

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Religions revival swept through colonies, God believes all is equal

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Triangular Trade

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Slaves were traded for manufactured goods

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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon

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Almanac for common sense, plan to defend self, first political cartoon in america

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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Sparked the Freedom of press

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Albany plan failed

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Proclamation of 1763

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Halted native American fighting, stopped expansion to the west

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The Sugar Act

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Placed tax on all shipped

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The Stamp Act

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Placed tax on deliveries

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The Boston Massacure

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Slaughtered Many Innocents

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The Boston Tea Party

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Threw tea of the British as a revolt for tax

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Closed harbor until tea paid for

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Patrick Henry

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Quote I am not A Virginian but a American

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Protesting Stamp Act

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John Hancock

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Owner od the liberty, Biggest Signature

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Wanted independance from Britain

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia written by Thomas Jefferson, Explains why we need to have independence

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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British Taxing

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Loyalists

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Loyal to Britain

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Patriots

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Loyal to the Americans

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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First Major Battles

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Battle of Saratoga

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The turning point of the Revolutionary War

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Winter at Valley Forge

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George Washington led troops in the winter

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Battle of Yorktown

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Last Major battle of the revolutionary war

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Benedict Arnold

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Traitor to America

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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

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Marquis de La Fayette

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Improved Tactical movements

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Friedrich von Steuben

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Provided leadership

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Francis Marion

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Helped with militia

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guerrilla warfare

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Hit and run tactics

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Ended the revolutionary war

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Allowing addition of new states

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Articles of Confederation

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Agreement of all 13 states

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Rebellion of taxes

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The Great Compromise

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Compromise for states

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The 3/5 Compromise

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Allowed voting of slaves to be 3/5

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison, 1789, Showed basic citizen rights

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Bill of Rights

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Shows all of the Amendments

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1st amendment

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abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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2nd Amendment

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Right to Own, Bear a Firearm

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4th Amendment

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,

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5th Amendments

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Right to have a trial

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Sixth amendment

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Right to a speedy trial

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Branches of goverment

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Legislative, makes laws, Judicial, Approves laws, Executive, puts law in place

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Whiskey Rebellion

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Rebellion against taxes

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Alexander hamilton

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One of the founding fathers

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Alien and sedation acts

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Made it so immigration was harder

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Natchez Trace

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A long path that goes through three states

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Marbury vs madison

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Formed Judicial Powers

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Judicial review

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Allowing judicial court to take more action in the court

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Mucullah vs maryland

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Tried to impede the second bank

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Election of 1800

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Thomas Jefferson

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sells territory for 15 Mil

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Went west

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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NA, Vs America

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Wanted war with GB

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War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

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GB pushed through but ended up giving up

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The Star Spangled Banner

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National Anthem towards Fort Henry

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Monroe Doctrine

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Tried to allow peace with other nations

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Brough Irish over from their lack of potatos

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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Fought for women’s sufferage

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Industrial Revolution

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Allowed industrial production

85
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Capitalism

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Economic state of the U.S

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Free Enterprise System

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Way to earn profit

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Supply and Demand

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The act of making money

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotton

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important

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Easy cotton picking, allowed for easy profit

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Urban vs Rural

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City, Country

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Wilderness Road

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Pioneers walked

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Daniel Boone

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Famous Pioneer

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Cumberland Gap

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Appalachian travel easy

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The Corrupt Bargain

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John C Calhoun, Henry Clay

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Practice of repairing Govt. thought bank was ruining economy

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Indian Removal Act

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Tried to get rid of indians

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Trail of Tears

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Trail indians fled to

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Sequoyah

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Made the cherokee alphabet

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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Shortest presidency

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Manifest Destiny

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Said we must expand west

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Texas Rebellion

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Wanted texas in their country

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The Alamo - battle significantly

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Texas declared independence on March 2, 1836 - Lon Star Republic

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoods man from Tennessee helped in the battle of the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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Used for migrating Northwest

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James K. Polk

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Manifest Destiny

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Mexican War

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Started the Mexican American war, bought Texas and new Mexico for 15mil

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John Sutter and the California goldrush

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First one to discover gold in California on his property, made the gold supply of America double

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Benjamin Young

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Lead the migration to the great salt lake are of utah

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The Missouri compromise of 1820

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Helped preserve the state of north and south, made Maine and Missouri a slave state

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John Brown

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Violent abolist, though that God wanted him to end slavery

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Harriet Tubman

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Famous conductor on the underground railroad

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Underground railroad

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Way for slave states to be free

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Fredrick Douglass

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Most known African American Abolisher

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom Cabin

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Shown the issue of slavery through a novel

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Fugitive slave act

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Made it so you can bring back slaves

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Kansas and Nebraska act

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Increased the number of slave states in the north

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Bleeding Kansas

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Northerners fought against slavery

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Summer brooks incidents

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Senator Charles Summer lashed out against out against proslavery

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Raid on Harper Ferry

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John Brown led an attack to get weapons for slaves

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Dred scott v Sandford

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Slave vs owner , slaves had no rights

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Lincoln-Douglass debates

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Douglass won against Lincoln

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln won 16th

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Causes of civil war

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Slavery

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Fort Sumter

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First shots of the civil war

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Ulysses S. Grant

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18th President and Commander

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Robert E. Lee

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Main commander of the south

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First battle of bull run

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The South used War cries to win

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Anaconda Plan

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Unions war plan to defeat the south by dividing them

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54th Massachusetts

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Most known African American regiment

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The battle of Gettysburg

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Union Greatly outnumbered,

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The battle of Vicksburg

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Turning point of the war

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Shermans Marcg to the Sea

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General William Tecumseh She man led the western Army towards Atlanta

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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April 9, 1865

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in 1865

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the U.S

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15th Amendment

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Gave African American men the right to vote

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Lincoln Assination

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April 4, 1865, Ford Theater, john Wilkes Booth , Peatersons House

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10% must pledge loyalty, wanted harsher redemption process

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Freedman’s Bureau

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Way for slaves to get free

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Segregation

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Seperating Races

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Jim Crow Laws

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Segregation Laws

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Ku Klux Klan

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Hated African Americans

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