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Period 1-5 Flashcards

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Pre-Colombian exchange

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1491

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Columbus “discovers” the new word

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1492

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3
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Spanish in the North America

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1588

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Jamestown

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1607

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Quebec (french colony)

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1608

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Bacons rebellion

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1676

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pueblo revolt

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1680

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first great awakening

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1730-50

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Thomas Jefferson is president against John Adams

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1800

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Louisiana Purchase –> doubled size of America

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1803

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Embargo Act: prohibits American ships from trading with foreign countries

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1807

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Declares war on Britain in the war of 1812

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1812

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McCulloch v. Maryland: establishes the principle of federal supremacy

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1819

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Missouri Compromise: allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

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1820

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Monroe Doctrine: states that European nations can not imperialize the Americas

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1823

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Indian Removal Act: forced Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral lands

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1830

17
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Texas declares independence from Mexico

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1836

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Mexican-American War

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1846

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Compromise of 1850: California was a free state and allowed popular sovereignty in the territories

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1850

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Kansas-Nebraska Act: allowed popular sovereignty in the territories and leads to a violent conflict over slavery in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas)

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1854

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Abraham Lincoln becomes president > Southern states leave the Union

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1860

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American Civil War begins with attack in Fort Summer by the confederates

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1861

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Emancipation Proclamation: freed slaves in confederate territory

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1863

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Civil War ends with the confederate army ( the south) surrendering

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1865

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13th Amendment: abolished slavery

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1865

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Reconstruction Acts” rebuild south after civil war

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1867

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14th Amendment: citizenship to all people born in America
(black people get citizenship)

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1868

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15th Amendment: right to vote regardless of race or color (still doesn’t include women)

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1870

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Compromise of 1877: marks the end of Reconstruction in the south > reconstruction failed

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1877

AP US HISTORY (4 decks)

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