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1
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What Is Jamestown?

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The first permanent English settlement in North America

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When was Jamestown founded?

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1607

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When did the first enslaved people arrive at Jamestown?

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1619

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4
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When was Declaration of Independence signed and declared?

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1776

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5
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When was the Louisiana Purchase

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1804

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When was the adoption of the US Constitution

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1787

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7
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Civil War

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1861-1865

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When did the Reconstruction era end?

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1877

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Full suffrage for women with the 19th Amendment

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1920

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When was the Prohibition Era?

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1920-1933

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When was the Great Depression

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1929-1939

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12
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World War II

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1939-1945

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13
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Civil Rights Movement

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1954-1968

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14
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

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15
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When did the Cold War end?

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1991

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1st part of the Compromise of 1850

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California was admitted to the Union as a free state

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2nd part of the Compromise of 1850

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Popular sovereignty will be used in Utah and New Mexico territories.

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3rd part of the Compromise of 1850

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Texas and New Mexico borders settled, Texas gets $10 Million to help pay debts.

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4th part of the Compromise of 1850

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Slave trade, but not slavery itself, abolished in Washington D.C only.

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5th part of the Compromise of 1850

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Stronger federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.

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21
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Compromise of 1850

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5 Parts, a set of laws that “settle” issues dealing with slavery in new territories.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required that all “escaped” slaves should be captured and returned to their masters and that officials and officers of free states must cooperate.

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23
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Kansas Nebraska Act

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an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed whithin a new states border.

24
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Dred Scott Decision

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The ruling that reinforced slavery and said African Americans were not U.S citizens

25
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Who was John Brown

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a white abolitionist who wanted to end slavery and start slave uprisings.

26
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What did John Brown do

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murdered pro-slavery supporters in KA, raided Harper’s Ferry (where they kept military weapons) hoping that slaves would meet him and take their freedom back by force. He was captured by Marines

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When and Where did John Brown do this

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Oct. 16, 1859 Harper’s ferry in Virginia

28
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Declarations of Secession

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Mississippi -
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Virginia
Arkansas
North Carolina
Tennessee

29
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Causes of Secession

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to protect their states’ rights, the institution of slavery, and disagreements over tariffs.

30
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Who was the American Civil war between?

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The Union and the South

31
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Fort Sumter

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Where the first shots of the war were fired. With only one casualty a horse

32
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Antietam

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Bloodiest day in U.S History victory for the Union

33
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Vicksburg

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First major battle of the Civil War

34
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Gettysburg

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Union victory turning point in the war

35
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Chattanooga

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Where alot of the confederates supplies where union victory

36
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Estimated number of Civil War Deaths

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620,000

37
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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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William Tecumseh Sherman marching his army through Georgia

38
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Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln said that all slaves in Confederate territory are here by free

39
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Freedmen’s Bureau

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provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

40
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Carpetbaggers

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a northerner who moved to the south during the period of Reconstruction for economic, social, and sometimes political opportunities.

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Scalawags

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a white southerner who supported the Republican Party during the period of Reconstruction.

42
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Lynching

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mobs/groups of people attacking and killing people usally by hanging without a trial

43
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Ida B. Wells

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led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s and women’s rights

44
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Plessy vs. Ferguson Case

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separate, but equal facilities

45
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Convict Leasing

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arresting mostly Black men and then forcing them to work for major companies.

46
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14th Amendment

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granted citizenship to all people “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,

47
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15th Amendment

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granted black men the right to vote

48
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Gilded Age

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a time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s

49
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Andrew Carnegie

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steel industry

50
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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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railroad industry

51
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What was the Biltmore Home

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Was Gerorge Vanderbilt estate

52
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John D. Rockefeller

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one of the richest men in the world oil industry

53
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JP Morgan

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American Finacer

54
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Monopoly

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are businesses that have total control over a sector of the economy, including prices.

55
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Social Darwinism

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the idea that people become powerful because they are just naturally better

56
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Ellis Island

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the main immigration center for the United States from 1892-1954.

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