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John Rolfe was a early setteler in North America. He is the first person to make tobacco into an export crop in Virginia. He married Pocahontas.
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The house of Burgesses is the first time in US history were the members of the house of representatives were elected. This was in Virginia.
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The Mayflower Compact which was signed aboard the Mayflower was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was signed by most adult men on board.
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Bacon's Rebellion was a rebellion agaisnt Govenor William Berkeley. Berkeley did not care of the colonists so about 1000 Virginians of all classes fought him.
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The Salem Witch Trials were trials and prosecutions in Massachusetts. Many people were accused of being witches and using "black magic", went to trial, and were killed. People often accused those who they didn't like of being a witch.
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John Peter Zenger was an editor for the New York Weekly Journal and was put in jail for 8 months after repeatedly writing articles critizing the Royal Governor. After this much time in Jail he hired lawyer Andrew Harrison who was able to have him plea his case directly to the jury who then declared him not guilty.
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The Stono Rebellion was the biggeset slave rebellion in America before the American Revolutio. It took place in South Carolina. They were being treated very harshly prior to rebelling.
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An early battle of the French and Indian War was fought at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania. Colonel George Washington and the British forces surrendered to the French and Indians.
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The Albany Plan was a plan suggested by Bejamin Franklin to create a unified goverment for the 13 colonies. With wars going on they thought having a strong unified goverment would help their defence.
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The Boston Massacre was when The British Army killed 5 citizens and inured 6 others. The Army members were being harrassed physically and verbally by a crowd of people and without orders fired shots into the crowd.
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A series of laws known as the Coercive acts were passed by British Parliment in responce to the Boston Tea Party. They took away Massachusetts self-governing rights. They partially caused the American Revolution.
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The declaration of Independence was a document signed by the US congress in 1776. The purpose of the decleration was to declare independence from Great Britian.
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Shays Rebellion was a unprising in Massachusetts brought on by finnancial difficulties. It was named after Daniel Shays a rebel leader from the Revolutionary War.
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The Cotten Gin was created by the inventor Eli Whitney in 1793. It is a machine used to seperate cotton from seeds. It is much faster to use the machine than to do it manually.
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who made Whiskey as a way to exchange were forced to pay a new tax. This plan was to help strengthen central goverment.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were 4 different bills passed and made law by president John Adams after the French Revolution. The bills increased the residency requirement for American citizens from 5 to 14 years.
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Marbury v. Madison was a United States Supreme Court case. The result was formed the seperation of the executive and juditial parts of the goverment. The Chief Justice was John Marshall.
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Lewis and Clark were to American explorers who led the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. The expidition was commissioned by Thomis Jefferson.
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The Missouri Compromise was a bill passed by United States Congress in 1820 to regulate slavery in the westeren territories.
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The Monroe Doctrine was a document stating that if Europe continued to colonize American land it would be taken as agression and the US would make them stop by force. It was stated by president James Monroe
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When the Indian Removal Act was signed in 1830 it allowed for the forced relocation of the Native Americans from the southeastern US this removal was called the Trail of Tears. The travel was very hard and caused many deaths.
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The Battle of The Alamo was an importent event in the Texas Revolution. The Mexican troops attacked the Alamo Mission. All of the Texans who defended it were killed. This angered many Texans who then proceeded to join the army allowing them to end the revolution.
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first womens rights organization in America to be made by women. The organization was in New York and created by New York women, Lucretia Motts
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The Compromise of 1850 was a collection of 5 bills that delt with the issues of slavery between the slave states and free states. It was drafted by Senator Henry Clay.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was one of the things that led up to the Cival War. The novel went into the realitys of slavery. It is the second best selling book following the bible.
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The Dred Scott case was an important decision within the supreme court. It was decided that African Americans, free or slaves, were not American citizens and therefor could not sue in federal court. This was one of the events leading up to the Cival War.
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An execuative order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emacipation Proclamation freed all slaves from the rebelling states. It was not a law passed by congress.
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The Force Acts were 3 bills past by the United States Congress that allowed African Americans to vote, hold office, and have equal treatment under laws. This act was created to fight against the KKK.
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The Spanish American war, as the name implys, is a confict between Spain and the US. It was caused because of the Americans intervening on the Cuban War of Independence
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The Zimmerman Telegram was the proposal made by the Germans for Mexico to goin the Central Powers if the United States were to enter the war the side of the Entendre powers. (World War I) It was intercepted by the British and angered Americans enough to goin the war and fight against the Germans.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement also known as the "New Negro movement". It was a time of a large amount of African American culture and arts being shown.
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Black Tuesday is the name given to the day when the stock market crashed and began the start of the great depression. Many people had invested money they didn't have into the stock market and when it crashed it had catastrophic consequences.
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The New Deal was mulitiple economic programs made my the US in 1933. It was made in by Franklin D Roosevelt in responce to the Great Depression
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Pearl harbor was a harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii that held much of the United States Navy. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941 is what brought the United States into World War II
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In the final stages of World War II, the United States droppped atomic bombs on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.This is the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war. The United States called for Japan to surrender threatning "utter destruction" but the Japanese goverment ignored this threat.
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President Truman announced an international relations policy called the Truman Doctrine in 1947. The doctrine stated that the US would help to prevent Turkey and Greese from joining the Soviets. This is what many people consiter the start of the cold war.
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This Supreme Court case declared the laws keeping public black and white schools seperated was unconstitutional. It was stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
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The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War. It was campaigned by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam army against South Vietnam and the USA.
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Watergate was a political scandel in 1972 starting when Democrat National Commitee was broken into. This led to Richard Nixon resigning making him the only US president to ever resign.
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The Iran Hostage Crisis was when a group of Iranian students took over the American Embassy in Tehran. 52 Americans were held hostage for a total of 444 days.
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The Challenger Exposion refers to the Space Shuttle the Challenger. It fell apart 73 seconds into flight killing its 7 crew members. It eventually landed over the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Iran-Contra Scandal was a political scandal during the Reagan administration when arms were secretly sold to Iran. Some thought this would help to release the hostages.
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9/11 was 4 coordinated terrorist attacks launched by al-Queda on the United States. Four passenger airlines were taken over to fly into building as suicide attacks. 2 were flown into the World Trade Center which shortly after collapsed. 1 was flown into the pentagon, and the last was aimed at the white house but crashed into a field in pennsylvania after passengers overtook the terrorists.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a resolution Congress passed in responce to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It was importent because gave President Lyndon Johnson the ability, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia
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Manifest Destiny is the idea that American settlers were destined to spread across the continant. This belief became very popular in the 19th century. Many believed that God had blessed the growth of the American nation.
