150 Flashcards
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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
Slaves were traded for manufactured goods
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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
Almanac for common sense, plan to defend self, first political cartoon in america
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John Peter Zenger Trial
Sparked the Freedom of press
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Cause of French and Indian War
Albany plan failed
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Proclamation of 1763
Halted native American fighting, stopped expansion to the west
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The Sugar Act
Placed tax on all shipped
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The Stamp Act
Placed tax on deliveries
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The Boston Massacure
Slaughtered Many Innocents
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The Boston Tea Party
Threw tea of the British as a revolt for tax
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Closed harbor until tea paid for
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Patrick Henry
Quote I am not A Virginian but a American
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
Protesting Stamp Act
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John Hancock
Owner od the liberty, Biggest Signature
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Wanted independance from Britain
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
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
British Taxing
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Loyalists
Loyal to Britain
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Patriots
Loyal to the Americans
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
First Major Battles
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Battle of Saratoga
The turning point of the Revolutionary War
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Winter at Valley Forge
George Washington led troops in the winter
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Battle of Yorktown
Last Major battle of the revolutionary war
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Benedict Arnold
Traitor to America
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
George Washington
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Marquis de La Fayette
Improved Tactical movements
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Friedrich von Steuben
Provided leadership
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Francis Marion
Helped with militia
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guerrilla warfare
Hit and run tactics
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Treaty of Paris 1783
Ended the revolutionary war
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Allowing addition of new states
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Articles of Confederation
Agreement of all 13 states
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Shays’ Rebellion
Rebellion of taxes
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The Great Compromise
Compromise for states
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The 3/5 Compromise
Allowed voting of slaves to be 3/5
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose
James Madison, 1789, Showed basic citizen rights
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Bill of Rights
Shows all of the Amendments
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1st amendment
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
Right to Own, Bear a Firearm
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4th Amendment
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
Right to have a trial
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Sixth amendment
Right to a speedy trial
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Branches of goverment
Legislative, makes laws, Judicial, Approves laws, Executive, puts law in place
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Whiskey Rebellion
Rebellion against taxes
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Alexander hamilton
One of the founding fathers
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Alien and sedation acts
Made it so immigration was harder
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Natchez Trace
A long path that goes through three states
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Marbury vs madison
Formed Judicial Powers
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Judicial review
Allowing judicial court to take more action in the court
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Mucullah vs maryland
Tried to impede the second bank
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Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson
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Louisiana Purchase
France sells territory for 15 Mil
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Went west
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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
NA, Vs America
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War Hawks from the War of 1812
Wanted war with GB
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War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans
GB pushed through but ended up giving up
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The Star Spangled Banner
National Anthem towards Fort Henry
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Monroe Doctrine
Tried to allow peace with other nations
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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration
Brough Irish over from their lack of potatos
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention
Fought for women's sufferage
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Industrial Revolution
Allowed industrial production
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Capitalism
Economic state of the U.S
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Free Enterprise System
Way to earn profit
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Supply and Demand
The act of making money
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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s
Cotton
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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important
Easy cotton picking, allowed for easy profit
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Urban vs Rural
City, Country
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Wilderness Road
Pioneers walked
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Daniel Boone
Famous Pioneer
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Cumberland Gap
Appalachian travel easy
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The Corrupt Bargain
John C Calhoun, Henry Clay
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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank
Practice of repairing Govt. thought bank was ruining economy
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Indian Removal Act
Tried to get rid of indians
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Trail of Tears
Trail indians fled to
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Sequoyah
Made the cherokee alphabet
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Shortest presidency
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Manifest Destiny
Said we must expand west
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Texas Rebellion
Wanted texas in their country
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The Alamo - battle significantly
Texas declared independence on March 2, 1836 - Lon Star Republic
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Davy Crockett
Backwoods man from Tennessee helped in the battle of the Alamo
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Oregon Trail
Used for migrating Northwest
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James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny
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Mexican War
Started the Mexican American war, bought Texas and new Mexico for 15mil
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John Sutter and the California goldrush
First one to discover gold in California on his property, made the gold supply of America double
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Benjamin Young
Lead the migration to the great salt lake are of utah
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The Missouri compromise of 1820
Helped preserve the state of north and south, made Maine and Missouri a slave state
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John Brown
Violent abolist, though that God wanted him to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
Famous conductor on the underground railroad
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Underground railroad
Way for slave states to be free
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Fredrick Douglass
Most known African American Abolisher
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom Cabin
Shown the issue of slavery through a novel
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Fugitive slave act
Made it so you can bring back slaves
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Kansas and Nebraska act
Increased the number of slave states in the north
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Bleeding Kansas
Northerners fought against slavery
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Summer brooks incidents
Senator Charles Summer lashed out against out against proslavery
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Raid on Harper Ferry
John Brown led an attack to get weapons for slaves
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Dred scott v Sandford
Slave vs owner , slaves had no rights
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Lincoln-Douglass debates
Douglass won against Lincoln
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Election of 1860
Lincoln won 16th
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Causes of civil war
Slavery
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Fort Sumter
First shots of the civil war
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th President and Commander
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Robert E. Lee
Main commander of the south
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First battle of bull run
The South used War cries to win
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Anaconda Plan
Unions war plan to defeat the south by dividing them
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54th Massachusetts
Most known African American regiment
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The battle of Gettysburg
Union Greatly outnumbered,
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The battle of Vicksburg
Turning point of the war
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Shermans Marcg to the Sea
General William Tecumseh She man led the western Army towards Atlanta
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
April 9, 1865
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in 1865
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the U.S
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15th Amendment
Gave African American men the right to vote
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Lincoln Assination
April 4, 1865, Ford Theater, john Wilkes Booth , Peatersons House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10% must pledge loyalty, wanted harsher redemption process
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Freedman’s Bureau
Way for slaves to get free
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Segregation
Seperating Races
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Jim Crow Laws
Segregation Laws
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Ku Klux Klan
Hated African Americans
