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Columbus was funded by the Spanish Queen to leave to find a better rout to trade with India
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Cortez, a Spanish conquistador, came to current day Mexico for the 3 G's, God, Gold, and Glory. He did so by murdering civilizations and intimidating the natives to give them their treasure.
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First established settlement by England to have success and it still currently exists.
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In Maryland, a Dutch ship brought "20 and odd Nigroes" which was the start of slavery in America
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Nethaniel Bacon led a rebellion for the treatment of poor whites and Native Americans. Bacon got a tready that helped white men.
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A widespread free thought that was revolutionary thinkin of self governance instead of community, state, or religion
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The Seven Years War, or the French and Indian War as some call it, was a war that took place on North American soil between the French and British/Native American/Colonists.
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The Proclamation was the mountains and land that the colonies were next to but soon became a problem because there were no definite boundries set.
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Sugar Act-1764
Stamp Act-1765
Currency Act-1764
Quartering/Mutiny Act-1765
Tea Act-1773
All mounting taxes which angered the colonists enough to act back and spark a revolution -
A mob of angry mob of dockworkers aggrivated a group of British soldiers to a point where they fired their guns killing 5 colonists.
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Led by Paul Revere and the Sons of Ben, they dressed up like Indians and raided ships in Boston harbor to destroy English imported tea.
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Thomas Jefferson, the main drafter of the Declaration of Independence, spoke of equality on the land. Document was the formal written document that broke the colonies away from British rule.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote about the freedom of practicing of any religion without any lawfl retubution.
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A constituion dreamed up by James Madison confirming that his Virginia Plan was the best in regulating soverginty and checks and balances.
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The Bill of Rights were rights that could not be touched by and state or government. These rights were 'granted' to the American people.
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Another Great Awakening this time beinging a more personal approach to it . This awakening deals with the second coming of Christ and more personal thought.
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First established National bank created by Hamilton that was based and operated off of debt.
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A device used to rapidly and efficiently get the seed out of the cotton.
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The United States purchased the Louisiana territory recieving great shipping ports and lots of land.
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After a 20 year charter of the First Bank of America was up, Congress ended the Bank and since the British had the titles, they started a war. sure enough after the war the federal bank was once again.
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Calhoun's theory of nullification dealt with states being able to nullify any sort of act that the national government enstated but that doesnt pertain to the state.
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In his terms he proved that the national defisate and the Federal Bank could be squashed not allowing them to regain their charter. Also was the one to enact the Indian Removal.
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The process of Indian removal out of the southern part of the country, out west to remote Indian land.
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Nat Turner led a rebellion in Virginia against his slave owners be killing them and had a tear up the coast gaining support from almost 60 people. He was later captured and hanged.
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The recharter bill was Vetoed in the fight against the corruption of the banks at the federal level.
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Western Union was the first federal telegraph company and still exists. Samuel F.B. Morse created a code lines and dots making communication possible over long distances.
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The Birth of corperations is just one of the reasons why the seperation between social and economical classes emerge.
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It was the compramise of what the western land gained from the Mexicans would be slave or not. The Compramise was to allow slavery but the slave trade was not.
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John Brown took over an areson with a group of abolitionists to distract the law so that slaves would be able to get away. The idea failed.
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The states that seceeded from the union formed a government called the Confederate States of America led by Jerrferson Davis.
