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Native America, European Exploration, Colonization
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Colombus set sail on his journey on August 3, 1492, with three ships. He landed in the "New World" on October 12, 1492 in what is now known as the Bahamas
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Jamestown, the first permanant English Colony in modern day Virginia, was founded in 1607.
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Quebec was founded by French Explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1608 as a French fur trading post.
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The first recorded slaves in US history were a group of approximately 19 Africans that were brought to Virginia by a private ship called 'The White Lion'.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was an assembly of democratically elected representatives that made up Virginias legislative body. It was the first democratically elected legislative body of its kind in English North America.
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Plymoth was the first settlement created in Massachusetts by Separatists who sought to create a religiously pure society.
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The Rhode Island colony was founded by Roger Williams in order to create a colony for the people that were exiled from the Massachusetts Bay colony for religious or other purposes.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Govorner William Burkley in the Jamestown colony.
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The Pope's Rebellion was an uprising revolt of the Pueblo people against the Spainish colonizers that took place in modern day New Mexico. This revolt led to a Pueblo victory and the expulsion of Spanish settlers.
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The French and Indian War began in the colonies when French settlers encroached on land claimed by British settlers.
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American Revolution, Confederal Era, and Early Federal Period
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The Stamp Act was put into place over the British colonies by the British Parliament in order to tax the colonies on the paper products that they used.
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A tax on tea that was collected by the British and protested heavily by the colonists, most notably in the Boston Tea Party.
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the Tea Act that was done by the Sons of Liberty in the Massachusetts Bay colony. The Massachusetts Bay colony was then punished by the British Parliament through the 'Intolerable Acts'.
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The Intolerable Acts were passed by the British Parliament in order to punish the Massachusetts Bay colony for the Boston Tea Party. The act included laws that restricted Massachusetts from recieving goods from other colonies.
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The Declaration of Independance was written by the US' founding fathers and was originals signed at the Second Continental Congress in Pennsylvania by its authors. The Declaration of Independance declaired independance from Britan for the English Colonies.
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The Articles of Confederation was an agreement amont the 13 original states that served as the first US Constitution. The Articles of Confederation were approved by the Second Continental Congress.
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Shay's Rebellion took place in Western Massachusetts and was caused by agressive tax and debt collection.
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The Northwest Ordinance was adopted by the Confederation Congress and chartered a government for the Northwest territory.
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The US Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America, and was originally comprised of seven articles.
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The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
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The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal announcement given by George Washington that declaired the United States neutral in the conflict between Britan and France.
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Jay's Treaty was an agreement that calmed the hostility between the United States and Britan and established a base on which America could build a sound economy.
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Pinckney's Treaty established intentions of friendship between the US and Spain.
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The election of 1800 was between the Democratic-Republican Party canadate Thomas Jefferson and the Federalist Party canadate John Adams. Thomas Jefferson won the Election and became the US president in 1801.
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Marbury v. Madison was a Supreme Court case that established the principal of judicial review.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchasing of the Louisiana territory from France.
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act made it illegal to engage in slave trade throughout the British colonies.
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The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the Federal Government.
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The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the US and the UK.
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The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings where the New England Federalists got together to disguss their grievences.
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The Erie Canal is in New York and originally ran from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
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The Missouri Compromise admitted Maine into the United States as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
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Clay's American System was the policy promoting industry in the US by the adoption of a high protective tariff and the developing internal improvements by the federal government.
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The Monroe Doctrine was a US policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
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The Tariff of Abomination was a protective tariff passed by Congress designed to protect industry in the Northern United States.
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The Indian Removal Act authorized the president to negotiate with Southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Virginia, led by Nat Turner.
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The Supreme Court ruled that jurisdiction over the case because the Cherokee Nation, was a “domestic dependent nation” instead of a “foreign state."
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The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government.
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Worcester v. Georgia was a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court said that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land. Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision helped form the basis for most subsequent Indian law in the United States.
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The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the US and Mexico.
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The California Gold Rush was a gold rush began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the US Congress and allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the state of Kansas.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.
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The election of 1860 was an election between Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, and John C. Breckridge. Abraham Lincoln won the election.
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The civil war was fought between the Confederacy and the Union and lasted from 1861 to 1865.
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The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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he Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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The Civil War ended due to the Confederate troops surrendering causing the Union to win the war.
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Tweed was convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers through political corruption, although later estimates ranged as high as $200 million. Unable to make bail, he escaped from jail once, but was returned to custody.
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The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1877, and even longer in France and Britain.
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year. Striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked.
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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.
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