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-13: 1865
-14: 1868
-15: 1869
-equaly for all citizens -
-phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount
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-document signed by King John recognizing rights of nobles
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-reformation
-16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval -
-business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders
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-trade among three ports or regions
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-armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists
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-Maryland will tolerate any religion
-Catholisism was important -
-series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies.This ended 200 years later
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-First Indian War
-armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England -
- armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley
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-James II was expelled and sovereignty conferred on William and Mary
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-creates rights for english citizens
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-series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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-religious tolerance
-encouraged individualism
-revivalism -
-Seven Years' War
-fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military -
-requiring that private lands be fenced off from common lands
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-new manufactoring processes
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-confederacy of Native American warriors under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacks the British force at Detroit
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-uprising in the British North America's Carolina colonies
-citizens took up arms against colonial officials -
-political upheaval
-Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy -
-2200 red coats charge up Breed's Hill to drive away 1200 minutemen
-British won -
-George Washington surprised 900 Birtish troops by crossing the Delaware River on Christmas
-Trenton -
-Thomas Paine
-inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain -
-document served as the United States' first constitution
-was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect -
-British surrendered 5,700 troops
-convinced European nations that America could win -
-General Charles Cornwallis was driven from the South and set up camp near Yorktown, VA with 8000 troops
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-Britain regained independence
-border at canada and Mississippi River
-Americans had rights to Canadian fishing waters -
-plan was to revise the articles but that was impossible
-delegates began to start over -
-agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787
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-first 10 amendments
-based on english bill of rights -
-1789- 1797
-Vp: John Adams -
-tax protest
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-Eli Whitney
-device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber -
-1797- 1801
-Vp: Thomas Jefferson -
-1801- 1809
-Vp: Aaron Burr and George Clinton -
-land deal between the United States and France
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-1809- 1817
-Vp: George Clinton and Elbridge Garry -
-James Madison became president
-trouble with Native Americans -
-1817- 1825
-Vp: Daniel D. Tompkins -
-U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent
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-1825- 1829
-Vp: John C. Calhoun -
-ran about 363 miles from Albany
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-1829- 1837
-Vp: John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren -
-Samuel Morse
-revolutionized long-distance communication
-worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations -
-1837- 1841
-Vp: Richard M. Johnson -
-devastating effects
-part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy -
-1841
-Vp: John Tyler -
-1841- 1845
-Vp: vacant -
-1845- 1849
-Vp: George M. Dallas -
-1849- 1850
-Vp: Millard Fillmore -
-1850- 1853
-Vp: vacant -
-1853 -1857
-Vp: William R.D. King -
- 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States
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-allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
-served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´ -
-1857- 1861
-Vp: John C. Breckinridge -
-election of Abraham Lincoln
seen as the end of Southern way of life
-beginnign of the Civil War -
-durable material
-Charles Goodyear -
-determined the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy
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-1861- 1865
-Vp: Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson -
-23,000 men were killed or wounded
-south invaded MD hoping a major victory would bring support from GB and France
-bloodiest day in American history -
-promised 160 acres of land for cultivation
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-freed slaves in the states in rebellion
-actually accomplishes nothing -
-1865- 1869
-Vp: vacant -
-1869- 1877
-Vp: Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson -
-law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. It is also noted for extending the naturalization process to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent"
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-Joseph F. Glidden
-used to keep cattle in -
-Americans offer to purchase Texas
-slavery became an issue
-Mexicans won after a 12 day siege
