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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China
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English disappeared leaving a great mystery.
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The First English attempt to settle in the New World known as "The Lost Colony"
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sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa.
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1st permanent English settlement in North America
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first legislative body in colonial America
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Colony settled by the Pilgrims which eventually merged with the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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he first agreement for self-government in America
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outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Puritan Massachusetts marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria, stress, trials and executions.
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A religious group who wanted to reform the Church of England.
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Clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state
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Pequot were virtually wiped put by the England
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Involved the Wampanoag Indians in the Plymouth Colony
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law passed by the English Parliament granting "some" religious freedoms to dissenting Protestants
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The first cultural movement to unite the Thirteen Colonies. Associated with the democratization of religion
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Continuous frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere of influence in frontier regions.
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trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the British Crown. Early attempt to unite the colonies.
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The surrender of Quebec marked the beginning of the end of French rule in North America.
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placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Led to outrage and tons of people boycotted British goods.
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Congress of American leaders which first met in 1775, declared independence and helped lead the United States during the Revolution.
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The last battle of the Revolution, Cornwallis is defeated by Washington and the colonial militias. Colonists won because British were surrounded and they surrendered. Parliament votes to end the war.
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Lewis and Clark explored the land the lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase
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slaves that were traded no longer had to go through it.
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Between Britain and the US, also known as the second American War for independence
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The courts ruled that the states cannot tax the Federal Government
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Major Financial Crisis
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case in which the court decided that the federal governments exclusive power over interstate commerce.
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Candidates: Henry Clay and James Polk. Polk favored expansion, demanded that Texas and Oregon be added to the US and Clay had already spoken out against annexation. Polk won the election by the difference of one state.
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people moved just to search for gold in the streams.
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-Dred Scott, an enslaved man of "the negro African race" who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom.
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was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York out-polled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.
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was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.