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history midterm 2015 Flashcards

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People who move from place to place

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Nomads

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They use this to see how old something was when it was once alive

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Radiocarbon dating

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Maize

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Corn

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Underground house built by the Anasazi for worship

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Kivas

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A system that promises land and protection in return for work and military support

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Feudalism

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Rebirth in the interest in learning

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Renaissance

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A new type of ship that was used by early explorers to the Americas that contained the ballas, the lateen sails

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Caravel

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A navigating device that uses the sun location in relationship to the horizon to determine where they were

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Astrolabe

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The exchange of goods between the old world and the new world after Columbus discovered the Americas

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Colombian exchange

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Spanish conqueror

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Conquistadors

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Separatists who wanted to separate themselves from the English church; founded Plymouth colony

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Pilgrims

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Wanted to purify the English church if Catholic rituals. They left because they were persecuted. Founded Massachusetts

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Puritans

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Spanish ranch

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Hacienda

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Land the conquistadors gave the people they fought for them. Included land, and natives who worked on it

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Encomienda

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The leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves to America.

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Middle Passage

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Trade between Old world (Europe), New world (America), Africa

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Triangular trade

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Person skilled in a creative craft

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Artisan

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Idea that a country’s power depended on its wealth

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Merchantilism

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Age of reason. Idea that all problems in the world can be solved by logic and reason

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Enlightenment

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A person who worked for so many years to get their passage to America

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Indentured servant

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Search warrant

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Writ of assistance

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Militia for the American army that could be ready in a minute

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Minutemen

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Person who was loyal and thought we shouldn’t have a revolution against the king

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Loyalist

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Someone loyal to the revolution

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Patriot

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Where people have the power through voting; select their own form of government

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Republic

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Freeing of slaves

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Emancipation

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The idea that people should be able to choose their form of government

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Popular sovereignty

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Change to the constitution; 27 to our constitution

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Amendment

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People who wanted the constitution to be ratified; wrote 88 papers encouraging the ratification of the constitution

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Federalists

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People who did not want the constitution to be ratification

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Anti-Federalist

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Approval of the constitution; 9 of 13 colonies has to agree for it to be passed

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Ratification

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The steps that government must take to ensure that everyone is treated equally under the law

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Due process

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32
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First 10 amendments of the constitution

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Bill of Rights

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The idea that law passed by congress is unconstitutional they can declare a law invalid or not obey it

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Nullification

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The right of the Supreme Court to declare a law passed by congress to be unconstitutional. The case that established this was Marbury v. Madison

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Judicial review

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The largest group of the social status; small land holders

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Yeoman Farmer

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36
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When John Adams gave Clay a cabinet post because he swung his support to him during the election

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Corrupt bargain

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37
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Conquered the Incas

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Fransisco Pizarro

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38
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He landed in the Bahamas on San Salvador Island

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Christopher Columbus

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Means “Ancient ones” lived in the American Southwest; built a city called Pueblo Ponito located in Chaco canyon; later moved to Mesa Verdes

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Anasazi

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A Portugal prince who set up a school to teach captains how to navigate

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Henry the Navigator

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First to lead a group that circumnavigated the globe. He didn’t because he died

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Conquered the Aztec

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Hernan Cortez

43
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Explored the St. Lawrence River; claimed all of was it now Canada for France and named it New France

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Jacques Cartier

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Leader of the Jamestown colony; established relationships with the Powhotan people

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John Smith

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Daughter of the leader of the Powhotan people; according to him she saved John Smith; married John Rolfe

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Pocahontas

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He helped the pilgrims survive and celebrated the first Thanksgiving with them; taught them how to grow corn

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Squanto

47
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Hid the charter for 4 years to become the head of the Massachusetts Bay colony

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John Winthrop

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Founded Pennsylvania

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William Penn

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Led a revolt of the backcountry farmers against the governor of Virginia

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Nathaniel Bacon

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His ideas were the basis of Thomas Jeffersons writing if the Declaration of Independence; British philosopher; wrote Two Treaties of Government

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John Locke

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Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis; the Crisis was read at Valley Forge

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Thomas Paine

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Leader of the sons of liberty in Boston

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Sam Adams

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Silversmith in Boston; member of the Son of Liberty; wrote pamphlets to encourage revolution; rode to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord

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Paul a Revere

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3rd President; wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence; interested in the Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson

55
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British General in command of British troops in North America after Gage resigned

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William Howe

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Swamp-fox; led guerrilla group in South Carolina

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Francis Marion

57
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British General in the south; surrender to the Americans at Yorktown

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Charles Cornwallis

58
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1st President; leader of the Continental Army

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George Washington

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Wrote the Virginia Plan; called Father of Our Constitution; wrote constitution for Virginia; also a President

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James Madison

60
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Explored the Louisiana Territory

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Lewis and Clarke

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Went with Lewis and Clarke Mandan port, western to her people to get horses

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Sacajawea

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Representative in congress from Kentucky; fought for states rights; entered into the Corrupt bargain with Adams

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Henry Clay

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Called “Old Hickory”; president of the U.S.; General in the American Army; indian fighter; hero in the Battle of New Orleans

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Andrew Jackson

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Invented the telegraph and Morse Code

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Samuel Morse

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Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts

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Eli Whitney

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Invented the Steamboat

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Robert Fulton

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Led a rebellion against slave holders in Virgina; killed a lot of women and children; tried and executed

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Nat Turner

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First permanent European settlement in the new world

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Santo Domingo

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Where Columbus landed in the Bahamas

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San Salvador

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First permanent Spanish settlement in North America (present day US)

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St. Augustine

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The oldest permanent French settlement in North America

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Quebec

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Capital city of the Aztecs; Mexico City is built on this site

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Tenochtitlán

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Oldest permanent English settlement in North America

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Jamestown

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The landbridge

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Beringia

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Where pueblo ponito was built

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Chaco Canyon

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Found in 1620 by the Pilgrims; in Massachusetts

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Plymouth

77
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Battle in which Americans fought the British hard enough that caused them to withdrawal from Boston

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Bunker Hill

78
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First shots of the American Revolution

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Lexington and Concord

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Where Washingtons troops spent the harsh winter

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Valley Forge

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Last major of the Revolutionary War

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Yorktown

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Turning point of the war in the north

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Saratoga

82
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Where the first and second continental congress met

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Philadelphia

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First english settlement in North America (not permanent)

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Roanoke Island

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Turning point for the war in the south

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Kings Mountain

85
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Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on

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Breeds hill

86
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The bring of William and Mary to the throne of English; no blood shed

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Glorious Revolution

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Fought over the Ohio River Valley

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French and Indian War

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First direct tax on American colonists

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Stamp Act

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People who wanted a revolution

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Sons of Liberty

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A conflict between civilians and Briitish soldier from Boston Common; 4 people died; Forst was Crispus Aticks

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Boston Massacre

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Agreement sent to King George to avoid war; he rejected it

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Olive Branch Petition

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Our first government as a country

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Articles of Confederation

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Plan for a constitution presented by James Madison who wrote it; most was used for our Constitution; one compromise, The Great Compromise (set up the senate to have two reps from each state, the houses reps based on population)

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Virginia Plan

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Established judicial review

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Marbury v. Madison

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Bought Louisiana from France; explored by Lewis and Clarke from 1804-1806

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Louisiana Purchase

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Determined how the land would be divided in North west territory and governed

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Northwest Ordinance

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When the sons of liberty threw tea into Boston Harbor

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Boston Tea Party

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A document stating that countries are no longer open for European civilizations

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Monroe Doctrine

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Drew a line in the Louisiana Territory. North of the line=slate state. South of the line=free state

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The Missouri Compromise

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Also known as the Great Compromise which determined representation in the house of the Senate

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Connecticut Compromise

101
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founded Plymouth colony

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Pilgrims

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They left England because they were persecuted.

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Puritans

103
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Founded Massachusetts

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Puritans

104
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The Anasazi built a city called ____ located in Chaco canyon; later moved to Mesa Verdes

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Pueblo Ponito

105
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The Crisis was read at ______

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Valley Forge

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