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A document signed by the King John to prevent abuse of power
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The 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history.
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the trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of slave trade
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An Italian explorer who started the colonization of the New World
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A Spanish explorer and conquistador who set sail to Florida for the mythical Fountain of Youth.
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a Portuguese explorer who explore the west coast of North America for the Spanish Empire
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a Spanish conquistador and explorer
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a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that was to invade England
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The first permanent English settlement in the Americas
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The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies
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a work of philosophy published by John Locke
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A labor system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years
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The third President of the United States
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The fourth President of the United States
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A war fought between the colonies of British America and New France
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a founding father of the United States
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A document that ended the seven years war
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It forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn on the Appalachian Mountains.
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an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America
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An incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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A pamphlet that inspired people to fight for independence from Great Britain
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A document that declared the thirteen colonies' independence
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A battle giving victory to the Americans in the American Revolutionary War
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A document that establish the United States of America as a confederation
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the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War
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A treaty ending the American Revolutionary War
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a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol in the United States
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A document that defined the US as bicameral
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The supreme law of the United States of America
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Entry into the Union
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Entry into the Union
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Entry into the Union
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The collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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a protestant revival movement
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Entry into the Union
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a tax protest on the tax imposed on whiskey
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A machine invented by Eli Whitney that strung up cotton
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an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping
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the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent
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an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves
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The sale of a giant chunk of land in the middle of North America
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the first American expedition to cross to the Pacific Ocean and exlore the Louisiana Purchase
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a prominent American abolitionist
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Comander of the confederate army
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President of the Confederate States of America
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the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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a canal that ran through New York
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a bank that handled all transactions for the U.S. Government
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an African-American social reformer
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a decision made by the Supreme Court
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prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory
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the transition to new manufacturing processes
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an American social reformer
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an African-American abolitionist
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a US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries
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a protest against the general state of spirituality
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Invents the Telegraph
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a series of forced relocations of Native Americans
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The law removed Indian tribes from territories east of the Mississippi River
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designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car
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led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry
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a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry
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The territorial war of texas
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Invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the light bulb
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a 20-day siege of the key Mexican beachhead seaport of Veracruz, during the Mexican-American War
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He introduced the techniques of new journalism to newspapers.
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the document that ended the mexican-american war
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The first womans rights convention
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a package of bills that settled a political confrontation betwen slave states and free states
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Chapter 4
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the anti-immigration party
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It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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the leading voice of the former slaves
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A series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas over who should be president
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Chapters 5 and 6
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the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I
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the 19th presidential election in which President Abraham Lincoln won
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A secessionist state from the lower south of America
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The major battle of the civil war
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The first major battle of the civil war
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gave an applicant ownership of land
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a major battle of the civil war
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A major battle of the civil war
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became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century
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a proclamation by Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves
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He built the nation's largerst newspaper chain and whose methods influenced American journalism.
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The turning point in the Civil War
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an amendment that abolished slavery
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The reconstruction of this nation after the civil war
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the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography
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an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor
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one of the reconstruction ammendments that gave equal rights to former slaves
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it protected the right to vote for everybody
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a battle in the great sioux war
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one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals
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the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
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a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics and informed the economic policies of governments
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an act that allowed to survey Native American land
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a document to strip the Hawaiin monarchy of much of its authority
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a policy that kept China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis
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an American women's rights organization
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an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age
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an American aviation pioneer and author and the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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a conflict between Spain and the United States because of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence
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one of three such regiments raised for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action
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an anti-imperialist uprising motivated by pro-nationlist views
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Sunk by spaniards in Havana Harbor which caused the Spanish American War
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US federal law that established civilian government on Puerto Rico
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A bill that was passed that stated the conditions of the withdrawl of U.S. troops in Cuba.
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an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and an influential figure in jazz music
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an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist
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an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
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Was annexed by the United States. Annexation was contreversial among americans.
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an addition to the Monroe Doctrine which allowed US intervention between European contries and Latin American countries
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It was the first great war of the 20th century.
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an African-American civil rights organization
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the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970
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the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of Manhattan
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the central banking system of the United States
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began as a minor incident involving U.S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to General Victoriano Huerta during the guerra de las facciones phase of the Mexican Revolution
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins
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a global war centred in Europe
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a canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
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a German promise of unrestricted submarine warfare
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a proposal for Mexico to join an alliance with Germany in an event of the US entering WWI against Germany
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a statement declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe
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a federal agency to compromise disputes between workers and employers in order to ensure labor productivity during the war
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It effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol
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one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I
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a series of raids intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists
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a movement that spanned the 1920s
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founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War One
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a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
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a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them"
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the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout
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an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels
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a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada
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in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform
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a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
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a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II
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the second stage of the New Deal programs
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a social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States
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a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute.
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Prohibition focused on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages