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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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1
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To build settlements and develop trade in lands that they controlled

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Colonize

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2
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Large farms that grow crops for profit

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Plantations

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3
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Were sent by the Roman Catholic Church to convince native Americans to accept Christianity

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Missionaries

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4
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3 acts passed by England

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Stamp act
Tea act
Townsend act

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5
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An act of protest in the colonies where angry colonists dumped a shipment of tea from Britian into Boston harbor

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Boston tea party

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6
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Growing just enough food to feed ones family

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Subsistence farming

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Who traveled to France to help convince the French government to support the patriot cause against Britain

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Benjamin Franklin

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8
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Arrangement by president Thomas Jefferson and it doubled the size of the country

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Louisiana purchase

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9
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The idea that the US should expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean

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Manifest destiny

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10
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116 day journey to Oklahoma made by the Cherokee

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Trail of tears

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The shift to large scale production

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Industrialization

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12
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A railroad, completed in 1869, which crossed the entire continent

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Transcontinental railroad

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13
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The movement for ending slavery

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Abolition

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14
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Freed all slaves in the confederate territory

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Emancipation proclamation

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The effort to rebuild and reunite the states as one nation after the civil war

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Reconstruction

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The refusal to take sides

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Neutrality

17
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What two cities did the US bomb to end WWII

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Hiroshima- August 6

Nagasaki- August 9

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Hitlers organized murder of Jews and other groups

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Holocaust

19
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Long period of political tension without fighting

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Cold War

20
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The use of violence to achieve political results

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Terrorism

21
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What crop led early populations to grow in Mexico

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Maize

22
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A system of writing that consists mostly of pictures and symbols

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Hieroglyphics

23
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The Mayans studied what topics which allowed them to develop an accurate calendar

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Sun
Moon
Stars
Planets

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An extensive group of people’s governed by one ruler– the Aztecs created this in modern day Mexico

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Empire

25
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A Spanish soldier-explorer

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Conquistador

26
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An outbreak of disease that spreads widely

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Epidemic

27
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Three garuntees

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Mexico would be independent from Spain, peninsulares and criollos would be equal, Roman catholasism would be the only religion in Mexico

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