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1
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Jamestown Formed
(First English Settlement)

A

1607

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Columbus arrives on America

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1492

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Emancipation Proclamation

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1863

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Emancipation Proclamation

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1863

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Why was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

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To reinvigorate morale during the Civil War.

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How long did the Civil War last?

What were its causes?

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1861-1865
-Economic Policies
-Cultural Valies
-Role of slavery

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Who was Batalome De Las Casas?

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Against the Encomiedna system and enslavement of indigengous people.

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Declaration of Independence

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1776

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Declaration of Independence

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1776

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9
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1791

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Bill of Rights is Improved.

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10
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What does Dear Charlie, Ever American President Has Been Assasinated?

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D -Declaration of Independence
C- Civil War
E-Emancipation Proclamation
A-Attack on Pearl Harbor

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11
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Who primarily wrote the declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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12
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Who primarily wrote the declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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13
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Who wrote Common Sense?

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Thomas Paine

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14
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Who said “Give me Liverty, or Give me Death?”

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Patrick Henry

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What was the immediate result of the Boston Massacre?

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-Propoganda
-Anti-british sentiment

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What was the immediate result of the Boston Massacre?

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-Propoganda
-Anti-british sentiment

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What was the Olive Branch Peittion and when was it issued?

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1775
Settle differences between American and the British peacefully.

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When were the Intolerable Acts mostly created?

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1774

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Wht was the Headrights System?

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A system that gave more land to those who sponsored indentured servants.

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Why did people prefer indentured servants over slaves at first?

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Slaves were more costly and with indentured servants, they would be recieving more land.

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Pearl Harbor

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The Japanese attack on a naval base in Hawaii in 1941.

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21
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Reconstruction

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1863-1877

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Enlightenment (Over the course of two centuries)

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1685-1815

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Enlightenment (Over the course of two centuries)

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1685-1815

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Thomas Jefferson’s election marked the start of the….

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1800’s - The Revolution of 1800 where Thomas Jefferson defeated the Federalist John Adams.

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25
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What did Hamilton advocate for?

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-Strong central government
-Taking on the debt the United States owed immediately
-American financial system

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What was the mud racker journalist who wrote about how the other side lives?

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Jacob Riis

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27
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When was the Whiskey Rebellion held?

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1794

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28
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When was the Second Great Awakening?

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1790

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29
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When did the first black slaves arrive in the colonies?

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1716

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30
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What was the Fugitive slave law enacted?

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1793

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31
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When was the Missouri Compromise?

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1820

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32
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1856

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Bleeding Kansas

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33
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1857

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Dred Scott. V Sanford

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34
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1860

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Abraham Lincoln is elected President

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35
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Who created the Liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison started the abolitionist movement.

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35
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Who created the Liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison started the abolitionist movement.

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36
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1848 (Decade after the Trails of Tears)

A

Seneca Falls Convention

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37
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COVERTS Versus OVERT

A

COVERTS:
-Songs
-Breaking up weapons
-Taking their time

Overt:
-Stono Rebellion

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38
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion Result

A

More fear among Southern abotu slave rebellions by making more restrictions on slaves

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39
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Yeoman Farmers

A

Independent land owners

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40
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Yeoman Farmers

A

Independent land owners

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41
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Quartering Act

A

1765

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42
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Boston Massacre

A

1770

43
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Boston Tea Party

A

1773 (3 years after the Boston Massacre)

44
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Patriots Versus Loyalists or Tories

A

Patriots: Wanted representation
Loyalists and Tories: Repected parliament decision

45
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What was the result of the Enlightenment

A

Natural Rights of
Life
Liberty
and the pursuit of happiness

46
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American Revolution

A

1765-1791

47
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What was the battle that marked the turning point of the American Revolution?

A

The battle of Saratoga - proved that America was worthy of French military assistance

48
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Articles of Confederation problems

A

-not raise funds
-regulate trade
-Conduct foreign policy without the voluntary agreement of the states
-No executive branch

49
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North West Ordinance

A

1787
-Unformed territories applying for Union
-Abolished slavery

49
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North West Ordinance

A

1787
-Unformed territories applying for Union
-Abolished slavery

50
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Shay’s Rebellion

A

Daniel Shay and others could not pay after they returned from the war
-Angry farmers
-Squashed by local militia
-Weakness of the AOC

51
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1st Constitutional Convention date

A

1787

52
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3/5 Compromise

A

Representation of enslaved people to balance the North and the South

53
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Federalist Papers Author

A

James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay

54
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American Culture After the American Revolution

A

-Romanticism
-Republican Motherhood

55
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Elastic Clause

A

Necessary to make Laws on Congress as proper under the Constitution

56
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French Revolution

A

1789

57
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What did Washington want for the nation?

A

-No political parties
-Do not hold biases
-Do not intervene in foreign affairs

58
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XYZ Affair

A

Also known as the Quazi-war

59
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Virginia and Kentucky Solutions

A

Nullify not favorable laws by the federal government

60
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Indian Trade and Intercourse Act

A

American Indians and British resulted in more conflicts with the Americans

61
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Pickney Treaty

A

Divide between American and Spanish territory

62
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Who was the first and only Confederate president?

A

Jefferson Davis

63
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What did King Cotton mean?

A

Economic and Political Importance of cotton production

64
Q

Who wrote the Gospel of Wealth?

A

Andrew Carnegie

65
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“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced”

A

Andrew Carnegie

66
Q

Who was the owner of the stand oil company?

A

John D. Rockefeller

67
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What did John D. Rockefeller use to dominate the industry?

A

Horizantal integration.

68
Q

Strict Constructionist Example

A

Thomas Jefferson
Only follow the Constitution

69
Q

Louisiana Purchase

A

1803
Indians are removed further westward

70
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Industrial Revolution time period

A

1760-1840

71
Q

John Marshall Marbury Versus Madison created….

A

Judicial Review

72
Q

Gilded Age Term was coined by

A

Mark Twain

73
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Charle’s Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

A

Only the fit will survive

74
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Who was Vanderbilt?

A

Wealthy businessmen from railroads and shipping

75
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What was the economic status of the Gilded Age?

A

-More jobs
-The larger gap between the wealthy and poor
-Improved standard of living
-Child labor
-Working class has more deaths and premature
-Labor Unions
-Immigrants replace many workers

76
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Labor Unions tactics

A

-Boycotts
-Strikes
-Slowdown

77
Q

The Great Railroad Strike date
and causes

A

1877
Better working conditions for railroad employees

78
Q

Pullman Strike and Panic of 1893

A

Labor Union strike for better pau wages

79
Q

Names of Labor Unions

A

-Knights of Labor 1881 (VERY INCLUSIVE)
-American Union of Labor

80
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Haymarket Riot

A

1886
-8 hour workday boycott where a bomb was released and the Knights of Labor were blamed for vioence

81
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American Federation of Labor

A

-Artisan crafters
-Higher wages, safer working conditions

82
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Who created the Hull House?

A

Jane Addams

83
Q

Why did people gravitate towards socialism?

A

-People own and regulate society
-Capitalism solution
-

84
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Who started the socialist Party

A

Eugene V. Debbs

85
Q

Social gospel

A

-Christian principles to everything that was in society

86
Q

NAWSA

A

Woman’s Suffrage Movement

87
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Temperance Movement

A

Fight against the consumption of alcohol

88
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Temperance Movement

A

Fight against the consumption of alcohol

89
Q

Women’s Temperance Union

A

1874

90
Q

“Bulldog running at the feet of the nation barking at things Jesus didn’t like”

A

Carrie Nation with the hatchet

91
Q

Laissez Faire

A

Leave alone economics

92
Q

Adams Onis Treaty

A

Florida

93
Q

When was the panic in the 1890’?

A

1893

94
Q

Tamaney Hall

A

New York polticial Machiene

95
Q

Who was the first and only President of the Confederacy?

A

Jefferson Davis

96
Q

What in the world is the New South?
(Name

A

-More industry and competition with the North
-Mostly agricultural
-Share-cropping
-Segregation

97
Q

Compromise that resulted after federal troops left the south date

A

1877

98
Q

Plessy Versus Ferguson information

A

1896
-Louisianna
-Separate rail cars
-Racial segregation but make sure that the rail cars are equal
-Separate but equal

99
Q

Jim Crow Laws

A

Segregated many aspects of life and public facilities after the Civil War

100
Q

Ida B. Wells

A

Against lynching and Jim Crow Laws

101
Q

Booker T. Washington

A

Self-sufficient African Americans s that they could be more involved in politics

102
Q

Frederick Douglass

A

American abolitionists and activists

103
Q

Technological Innovations in the Gilded Age.

A

-National marketplace by railroads
-More connected economy
-Chinese immigrants work on railroads
-Land grants and loan subsidies
-Transcontinental Railroads
-Bessemer Process (Larger skyscrapers)
-Coal and Oil
-Telegraphs and telephone
-Better communication
-Transatlantic cable

104
Q

Industrialism Capitalism in the Gilded Age

A

-Rise of monopolies and trusts
-Railroad, steel, and industries

105
Q

Steel company owner during the Gilded Age

A

Andrew Carnegie
(Vertical Integration)

106
Q

What did the Proclamation Line do?

A

1763
-Ends the French and Indian war and prevents colonists from intervening in Native American affairs

107
Q

When was the AOC made?

A

1777

108
Q

Clinton signed these two things

A

-Don’t ask don’t tell
-DOMA (Defensive Marriage Act)

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