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Mayflower Compact, first Constitution of the New World
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Between the monarchy and Parliament. They stopped colonization for this time, so the 13 colonies developed into independent and self-governing entities in their own right!
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BIG turning point for colonists!
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BIG act of defiance on the colonists' part!
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A revolutionary-era pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that got many colonists to support independence from the British!
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Second Continental Congress announced and explained separation from Great Britain.
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Protestant religious revival movement!
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Go DRY!
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First women's rights convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Their demands, as women, for further rights and equality, were laid out in the Declaration of Sentiments.
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Southern states seceded from the US after the election of Lincoln who was against slavery. It created two distinct identities: the Confederacy and the original Union.
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13th Amendment: It ended slavery in the US, so African Americans were free, giving them a new identity because they could be Freedmen.
14th Amendment: Every person born or naturalized in
the United States is a citizen, and due process of law must be followed before any citizen's rights or property are taken away.
15th Amendment: A citizen's right to vote cannot be taken away because of race, the color of their skin, or because they used to be slaves. -
Helping rebuild the South through legislation, policy, aid, etc!
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Settlement houses, started by Jane Addams, that helped immigrants assimilate into the American culture!
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A widespread shift from rural areas to urban areas; resulted increase in urban centers, such as booming cities in the North
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"Separate but equal"
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Women get the right to vote!
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Restricted immigration into the United States.
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Overturned the decision in Plessy vs. Ferguson; made segregation unconstitutional.
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The US becomes a service-based country
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