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Built a sophisticated culture with written language.Established a numerical system.Created an accuate calendar.
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Created a powerful empire of perhaps 6 million people.Developed a complex political system. Made a large network of paved roads.
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Went on a Westward Voyage with support from Queen Isabella. Columbus commanded 90 men, and three ships named Nina, Pinta,and Santa Maria.Landed in Bahamas,Cuba,Caribbean,and discovered a colony of Hispaniola.
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All africans were sent to American against their will.African society was primitive and uncivlized.Trade States of west africa resulted in slaves being traded for finished goods.
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To English the new world seemed attractive because of Scare Land.Englands growing wool and cloth industry were eager to expand trade.There was an increase attractiveness of acquiring colonies, which could become the source of raw materials and a market for the colonizing power's goods.
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A man named John Rolfe cultivated the crop in Virgina.Tobacco planting soon spread up and down the James.Tobacco growers needed large areas for farmland.
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In massachusetts a law was passed that required every town to have a school.Quakers started to operate church schools.Dame Schools developed by holding private classes in their homes.
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Indians made effective use of a relatively new European weapon from the english called the Flintlock Musket.It replaced the earlier staple of colonial musketry. The matchlock rifle, was proved too heavy,cumbersome, and inaccurate to be effective.
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Occured in S.C. where slaves resisted their masters.100 blacks rose up, seized weapons and killed several whites.The uprising was crushed and participants were executed.
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Appealed to women, and to younger sons of the third or forth generation of settlers.Every person is to start new with there relationship with God.Some broke away from their families and communities to start a new life.
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There was an increase in Scientific knowledge.Early colleges established chairs of natural science and introduced the scientific theory from Europe.Ben Franklin came up with the idea of electricity.
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This act fell on everyone. This was an act of taxing all printed documents.This was an attempt by England to raise revenue from the colonies.
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Connectict and Rhode Island already had goverments that were republican in all but name.They simply deleted references to England and the king from their charters and adopted them as constiutions.This developed that all constitutions must be written down.
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A mob of dockworkers started to throw snowballs at the british. Captin Preston of the British regiment lined up several of his men in front of a building to protect it.Several British solidiers fired into the crowd killing 5 colonists.
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Most women were in charge of farm and businesses.Women were required to house and feed the British. Some women went out to fight during the war,protested,or just stayed home and tried to provide for the family.
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Madison comes up with the idea of soverignty and limiting power. He decided that all power,at all levels of goverment flowed ultimately from the people. The idea of checks and balances evolved stating no single group would ever be able to dominate and the centers of powers would check on eachother
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John Jay was sent to secure compensation for the recent British assaluts on American shipping.Jay's treaty provied a American sovereignty over the entire Northwest and produced a resonably satisfactory commerical relationship.Pinkneys treaty evolves which states Americans can navigate the Mississippi.
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Eli Whitney revolutionized the cotton economy of the South. The invention made the task of removing the seeds of short-staple cotton quckly and efficiently. He helped introduced the concept of interchangable parts to the United States.
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This was the most famous almanac in the eighteenth-century.Ben Franklin published this in Philadelphia.There was a wide availably of reading due to the spread of printing technology.
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Deism had originated among Enlightment philosophers in France, attracted Jefferson and Franklin. They accepted the existence of God, but they considered him a remote "watchmaker". From this point the Second Great Awakening is becoming a dramtic come back.
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Jefferson helped plan an expedition that was to cross the continent to the Pacific Ocean, gather geographical facts, and investigate prospects for trade with the Indians.Lewis and Clark were the leaders of this expedition. The travels helped create an impression among Americans that the land between the Missouri and Rockies was an uncultivatable desert.
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Livingston and Monroe signed an agreement with Napoleon for the Louisana territory.The Northwest Territory was eventally divided into states, The first of these states was admitted to the Union as the state of Louisiana.
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Marshall served as a chief justice of the United States. He molded the development of the Constitution by strengthening the Supreme Court, increasing the power of the the federal goverment, and advancing the interests of the propertied and commercial classes. Marshall held that a land grant was a valid contract and could not be repealed even if corruption was involved.
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Dorothea began a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill. New forms of prison discipline were designed to reform and rehabilitate criminals. Indians were moved to a place where they would be allowed to develop to a point in which assimilation might be possible,
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Stockton and Darlington railroad was the first line to carry general traffic. The first company began actual operations called the Baltimore and Ohio which opened a thirteen mile stretch.The railroads supplanted canals and all other forms of transportation.
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Southern slaves could hold no property. The whites had to obey by the slave codes of no teaching of a slave to read or write.A owner of a slave could kill one, and it would not be considered a crime.
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Jackson was determined to destroy the banks or "monsters".He could not legally abolish the Bank before the expiration of its charter.He weakened the bank by removing the goverment's deposits from it.The bank of the United States died in 1836
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Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande and attacked a unit of American soldiers. Kearny brought the disparate American forces together under his command,and by autumn 1846 he had completed the conquest of California.Polk and Trist came to an agreement with the new Mexican goverment on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Grant bodly moved men and supplies-over land and by water-to an area south of the city, where the terrain was reasonably good.Grant attacked Vicksburg from the rear. Vicksburg had to surrender bc of lack of nutriton. The whole length of the Mississippi had to be split into two.
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Ida was a black journalist that started a anti-lynching movement.The movement attracted whites and blacks, particulary women, The goal was for the national goverment to do what state and local govermnets in the South were generally unwilling to do: punish those responsible for lynchings.
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