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1764

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  • Sugar Act
  • Currency Act
  • James Otis: ‘Taxation without Representation is Tyranny’
  • Boston merchants begin boycott of British goods
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1765

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  • Stamp Act
  • Quartering Act
  • Virginia Resolutions
  • Sons of Liberty formed
  • Stamp Act Congress resolution to King George III requesting repeal
  • many daily transactions cease - violence breaks out in New York
  • over 200 Boston merchants refuse to pay Stamp Act
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Virginia Resolutions

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1765

By Patrick Henry - only Virginian assembly can legally tax Virginian citizens

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Stamp Act repealed

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1766

Ben Franklin: possible revolution could occur if Stamp Act enforced by British

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Declaratory Act

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1766

Asserted British right to make laws/tax in colonies

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New York assembly refuses to fully enforce Quartering Act

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1766

=> Violence breaks out between British soldiers and Sons of Liberty
=> N.Y legislature suspended after voting against compliance with Act

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Townshend Acts

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1767

New taxes on imports = Brit revenue
=> Boston reinstates boycott

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British troops arrive in Boston to enforce custom laws

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1768

=> Boston colonists urged to arm themselves

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Boycott of English goods spreads to…

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1769

Philadelphia, Rhode Island, New Jersey & North Carolina

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Boston Massacre

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1770

=> 1772: reward offered for guilty colonists to be sent to Britain for trial

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Tea Act

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1773

=> Boston Tea Party

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Coercive/Intolerable Acts

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1774

• Massachusetts Government Act
- elective gov. replaced by General 
• Administration of Justice Act
• Boston Port Act 
- harbour closed until tea compensated
• Quartering Act 
• Quebec Act 
- extend S borders into colonist territory
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British Parliament declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion

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1775

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Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech

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1775

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Shots fired at Lexington and Concord

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1775

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Olive branch petition aimed at reconciliation fails

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1775

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Publication of Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’

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1776

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Declaration of Independence presented by Thomas Jefferson

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1776

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19
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Dates of American war for independence

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1775-84

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First President of US

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George Washington (1789-97)

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21
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Bill of Rights ratified

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1791

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Fugitive Slave Act passed

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1793

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Whiskey Rebellion

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1794

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Second President of US

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John Adams (1797-1801)

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3rd President of US

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Thomas Jefferson. (1801-09)

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26
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Louisiana Purchase

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1803

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27
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Missouri Compromise

28
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Nat Turner rebellion

29
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US-Mexican war dates

30
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Gold discovered in California

31
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Abraham Lincoln president in..?

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1861

Won 1860 election

32
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Fort Sumter

33
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Battle of Gettysburg

34
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End of civil war & Lincoln assassinated

35
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Klu Klux Klan founded

36
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Date

Treaty of Paris (end of 7 Yrs War)

37
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Who said ‘Taxation without representation is tyranny’

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James Otis

38
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Louisiana Purchase

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1803
USA hot majority of Mississippi basin from France
Nearly x2 territory

39
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Missouri compromise

Year and created line along which parallel..?

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1820

Line along 41st parallel

40
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Texas joined Union in

41
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US-Mex war dates

42
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Wiltso Provisio

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Idea that all new territories should not have slavery

43
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Calhoun’s view

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Slaves should be allowed to travel to any state

44
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How many died at Bleeding Kansas 1855-6

45
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Kansas Nebraska act

46
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Dredd Scott

47
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‘Uncle Toms Cabin’ author + year

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Henriette Beecher Stowe 1852

48
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Lincoln-Douglass debates - who disagreed with Dredd Scott decision?

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Steven Douglas

49
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Who proposed Kansas Nebraska act

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Steven Douglass

50
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Who argued that Abe Lincoln was a moderate who was open for compromise?

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John M. McFeirson (1988)

51
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Republican Party pre-civil war views

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Opposed expansion of slavery while promoting unity of union

52
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Lincoln won what % popular vote

53
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1860 which state seceded?

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South Carolina

54
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By 1861 other states that’d seceded

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Texas, Florida, Georgia

55
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1957: State governor of Little Rock (which state?)

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State governor Orval Faubus

Little Rock, Arkansas

56
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Dates of Albany marches (civil rights)

57
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Founding of Black Panthers

58
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Who argues that ordinary people were just as important as civil rights leaders of organisations like MLK?

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John Dittmer (1994)
Or
Charles Payne (1995)
59
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Historians who argue civil rights struggle past 1960s

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Alex Hayley who wrote influential autobiography of Malcolm X in (1965)

60
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Brown vs board did not provide an effective method of enforcement or support measures that would have made desegregation possible

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Derrick Bell (2004)

61
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Who argued that slavery caused the civil war?

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Charles Joyner (2000)

62
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Who argued that international influences were more important that territorial expansion in causing US civil war
Eg US-Mex war & Haitian revolt

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Matthew J. Calvin

63
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Who argued that British policies to collect revenue were reasonable?

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George L. Beer

64
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Who argued that constitutional drafters were shaped as much by their own class interests than grander philosophical ideas

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Charles Beard

65
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How many arrested in Birmingham?

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