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Law in Maryland that protected Catholics

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Toleration Act

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First Successful British settlement

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Jamestown, Virginia

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Agreement on the mayflower to give political power to the people

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Mayflower Compact

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Period of time when colonists were able to govern themselves

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Salutary neglect

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First direct tax on the colonists (on all paper goods)

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Stamp Act

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First U.S. Constitution in the U.S.; no executive powers

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Articles of Confederation

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First 10 Amendments: lays out individual freedoms

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Bill of Rights

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Rebellion under AOC, barely put down, weak gov.

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Shays rebellion

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Rebellion under Constitution

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Whiskey Rebellion

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Adams sends diplomats to France to ask them to stop attacking our ships

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XYZ Affair

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Document that outlined nullification theory

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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Court case that established Judicial Review

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Mar bury v. Madison

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Land purchase;worries over constitutionality

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Louisiana Purchase

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Stopped Europeans from getting involved in Latin America

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Monroe Doctrine

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Major man-made river connecting the Atlantic with the Great Lakes

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Eerie Canal

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Major man-made river connecting the Atlantic with the Great Lakes

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Eerie Canal

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Compromise: Missouri=slave;Main=free

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Missouri Compromise

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Forcible relocation of the Cherokee onto reservations

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Trail of Tears

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U.S. Destiny/ due to westward expansion

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Manifest destiny

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law that made it illegal to help slaves escape to freedom

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Law that established popular sovereignty, cali=free

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compromise of 1850

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mini-civil war in kansas over slavery

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bleeding kansas

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Supreme court case that denied citizenship to African Americans

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Dread Scott v. Sanford

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Law, gave popular sovereignty to Kansas Territory

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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Machine that increased cotton production

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cotton gin

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Law that denied tribal rights –> assimilation of natives

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Dawes Act

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Last straw for the south–> secession

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Lincolns election

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executive order to free slaves in the confederacy

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Railroad that linked the east with the west

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transcontinental railroad

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Great example of a political machine

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Boss Tweel/ Tammy hall

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examples of government using troops to support big businesses

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RR strike, pullman strike, hay market Trident

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Banned Chinese from entry to the US for 10 years

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Chinese exclusion act

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law that outlawed monopolies in the US

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Sherman anti trust act

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political party; pro silver; helped farmers

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populists party

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white farmers that tried to collectively organize

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the grange movement

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Unethical Journalism;exaggeration of events (USS main explosion)

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yellow journalism

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supreme court case that legalized segregation

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Plessy v. Fergison

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US attempt to gain a foothold ($trade) in china

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open door policy

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president using office as a platform to advocate agenda

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bully pulpit

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writers that exposed big buisness corruption

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muckrackers

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Telegram intercepted from Germany to Mexico

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Zimmerman telegram

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Wilsons outline for peace; create league of nations

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14 points

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icon for individualism in women

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flappers

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trial over evolution in schools

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scopes trial

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FDR’s radio broadcasts; calming public fears

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fireside chats

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Environmental disaster in the great plains

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dust bowl

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law that provided aid to allies in Europe

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lend lease act

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commission for equality in the workplace (ww2)

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FEPC

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Trials to prosecute Nazis for the holocaust

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Neremburg trials

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containment policy to stop the spread of communism

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Truman Doctine

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post WW2 economic plan to rebuild Europe

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Marshall plan

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Supreme court case that overturned plessy v. fergison

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Brown v. the board of education

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first USSR satellite launched into space

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sputnick

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ideological line that separated Europe from communism

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Iron curtain

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CIA failed coup of Castro in Cuba

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Bay of Pigs

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USSR tries to place missiles in Cuba

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Cuban missile crisis

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U.S. destruction of a village in Vietnam

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my lai massacre

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USN gaurd kills 4 university students

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kent state massacre

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Nixon authorized break in of democratic HQ

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water gate

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supreme court case that legalized abortion

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Roe v. Wade

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Iran invades US embassy and takes US hostages

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Iranian hostage crisis

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carter negotiated peace between Israel/Egypt

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camp David accords

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event that started war on terrorism

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9/11

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who is the DOI about

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king George

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