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Spanish explorers
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a colony that Cortes made plans to build
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mixed Spanish and Native American population
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led the attack on the aztec army and ultimately was responsible for their downfall
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Spaniah explorers
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Pueblo religious leader
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a carved adventurer
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Stock Companies alled several investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony
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limited terms of servitude for passage to America
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first governor of Jamestown
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Native American tribe
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one of the first colonies of the New World
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Spain's northern holdingss
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if you pay your own passage to Virginia from England, you get 50 acres of land
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people who fled England to escape persecution
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the second permanent English colony in North America
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established by the West India Trading Company
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a colony that is under direct control of the King of England
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church members who wanted to purify the Church of England
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colony established by John Winthrop
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an extreme seperatist
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war between Pequot Tribe and English settlers
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was baniahed from the Puritan colony
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Wampanoag chief
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the idea that all countries were in a competition to see who has the most silver and gold
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the legislative body of England
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a series of laws enacted by parliament to tighten England's control of trade in its American colonies
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the owner of the colony
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was committed to the Quakers
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believed that God's inner light burned in everyone
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Native Americans burned and attacked outlying settlements
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raised an army to fight against the Native Americans
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Maine to New Jersey colonized to New England
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chosen to rule New England
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a powerful and influential political activist
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requires colonist to purchase special stamped papers for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac, and imposed special "stamp duties" on packages of playing cards and dice
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a series of laws enacted by Parliament establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from BRitain by the British colonies in North America
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a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in which five colonists were killed
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one of the grous set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties
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the dumping of 18000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonists to protest the Tea Act
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rule imposed by military forces
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a series of laws enacted by Pariament to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
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approved the Declaration of Independence and served as the only agency of national government during thr Revolutionary War
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patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War, pleadged to be ready to fight at a minutes notice
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urging a return to "the former harmony" etween Britain and the colonies
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those who opposed indepence and remained loyal to the Crown
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Virginia lawyer that wrote the Declaration of Independence
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an anonymous 50-page pamphlet that called for the seperateion of the colonies from Britain
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the document written by Thomas Jerfferson, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britain
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americans pull off a huge win at the battle of Trenton
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the site of the Continental Army's camp during the winter of 1777-1778
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where Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates
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a Prussian captain that helped train the American army
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in command of the Birtish forces in North and South Carolina
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a belief in the equality of all people
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selling scarce goods for a profit
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rise in prices
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British surrender and the American Revolution has ended
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confired US independence and set the boundaries of the new nation
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a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
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pretests that caused panic and dismay throughout the nation
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Congress provided a procedure for dividing the land into territories
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a law that established the federal court system and the number of Supreme Court justices and that provided for the appeal of certain state court decisions to the federal courts
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Washington picked him to be secretary of the treasury
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the group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisors
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a tax on imported goods that is intended to protect a nation's businesses from foreign competition
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a tax on the production, sale, or consumption of goods produced within a country
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the US minister to Great Britain
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the chieftain of the Miami Native American tribe
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funded by the federal government and private investors; established by congress
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political party known for its support of strong state governments; founded by Thomas Jefferson in opposition to the Federalist Party
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a young French diplomatic
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a statement that the United States would support neither side in the conflict of the French Revolution
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the chief justice of the Supreme Court
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a political system dominated by two major parties (DEmocrats and Republicans)
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placing the interests of one region over those of the nation as a whole
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an incident in which French officials demand a bribe from US diplomats
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a series of four laws enacted to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States
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a staunch Federalists that is chief justice of the Supreme Court
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one of the judges appointed by John Adams in the last hours of his administration
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a law that increased the number of federal judges, allowing President John Adams to fill ost of the new posts with Federalists
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the Supreme Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional
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an 1803 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish legislative acts by declaring them unconstitutional; this power came to be known as judical review
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the purchase of the United States of France's Louisiana Territory, extending from the MIssissippi River to the Rocky Mountains, for $15 million
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explorers who ventured west to get to the Pacific Ocean
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Native American women who served as an interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark
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Congress declared a ban on exporting products to Britain and other European countries.
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the governor of the Indiana Territory
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President of the United States
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ended the war of 1812
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the major change in the US economy produced by peoples beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves
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African American slave, one of the first to escape slavery
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most radical white abolitionist that was active in religious reformation
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a gift of public land to an individuals or organizations
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the tradition that women should restrict their activities after marriage to the home and family
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the first national association of trade unions
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a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue; repealed in 1844
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a rebellion in which Texas gains its independence from Mexico
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the nation established when American settlers in the Mexican province of Texas declared and fought for their independencce, also commonly known at the tie as the "Lone Star Republic"
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carries messages, tapped in code, across copper wire
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joined the social movement
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a religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for personal and social improvement
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the belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory
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the nation proclammed by American settlers in California when they declared their independence from Mexico
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a womens rights convention
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the treaty ending the US war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the US
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a movement of many people to a region in which gold has been descovered
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a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination
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one of the first slaves to escape to freedom
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provided various Native American nationas control of the Central Plains, land east of the Rocky Mountains that stretched roughly from the Arkansas River north to Canada
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the effort to prohibit the drinking of alchol
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that states had the right to nully, or consider void, any act of Congress that they deemed unconstitutional
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