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Christopher Columbus took a ship with a crew of men to the West Indies but little did they know they landed in the Bahamas. He seeking a new water route to the West Indies for better trade.
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The Treay or Tordesillas gave land to Portugal and Spain. It gave Spain the land to the West of the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal the land to the East.
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Da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa. He sailed from Europe to Asia that passed the Muslim nations that controlled the overland spice trade.
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Balboa and his crew were in search of gold. He sailed across the Gulf of Uraba to the Darien Peninsula. They spents months trying to conquer the natives while on their quest.
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De Leon wa sin search for the fountain of youth but in reality it gold. He returned in 1521 to begin making a colony.
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This was the most significant part in the colonization of the Spanish in America. Cortes was believed to be the God of Quetzalcoatl. After the fame, Cortes and his men turned on the Aztecs and destroyed their empire.
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Magellan was in search of teh strait that would take him to to the Pacific Ocean. After he had gotten to the Phillipine island of -Cebu. Magellan wa killed while a fight broke out and his crew was left to continue the journey.
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The Incas were mostly dieing off from disease that the foreigners were bringing over. It weakened the Incas and made it easier for Pizarro to crush their empire.
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Jacques Cartier was instructed to find gold, spices, admn a water route from France to Africa. he found the most important water way into most of Canada.
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De Soto treated the enslaved people very badly and the Natives kept their distance from the Spanish horesemen. This made it easy for them to continue to march on throuhout the southeast.
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During the expedition the explorers went by way of the Colorado River. The search was given up on in search for the seven cities of Cibola.
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The Spanish wanted to convert more Indians to Christianity and to settle their North American borders. The Spanish wanted to block French ambitions and to protect the sea lanes to the Caribbean.
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In New Mexico the Spanish settlers found many furs and gold in New Mexico. The Roman Catholic mission became the central religion in New Mexico.
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This rebellion was an uprising against the Pueblo people and the Spanish fighters. The Pueblos destroyed every catholic church killed priests and Spanish settlers. In just 12 years later they were able to come back and retake New Mexico.
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This was land that no European was to never have been explored before. This led to overland trade routes.
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Edwards believed in predestination and the absolute dependence of man upon God and divine grace. He stood true to his beliefs even when people were against him. With Edwards not listening to the rejecters, it started the Great Awakening, a religious revival.
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Zenger was a newspaper printer. He printed evidence that corrupt the govenor of New York. The jury found him not guilty. This started the Freedom of the press that we have today.
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Whitefield was a great speaker who contracted a very big crowd everytime he spoke. He got his word around very well. He imitated many people which helped him to get his word across. Since poeple listened to him he was able to spread the great awakening.
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It was a cinflict between Britain and Spain. Robert Jenkins lost his ear in the war.
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It was the name of teh war that started teh Austrian Succesion. It was the third Frenmch and INdian War.
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Fifty black slaves were hung. They were planning to revolt. This eventually started King George's War
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Was first founded as the college of New Jersey in 1746. It was British Americ's fourth college.
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It was a private non profit hospital. This was the first hospital in the colonies. It was founded by Ben Franklin and Thomas Bond.
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General Braddock took 2000 men. Most of the men were killed in action. Pennslyvania to north carolina was left open for the taking.
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It was captured by the ENglish. it was designed to protect New France from the Americas.
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The boys that marched were of teh Scots-Irish decent. They wanted to show hoe mad they were at toward the Legislature. They had 250 men showing their frustration toward teh legislature who failed to protect them.
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The school was mostly affiliated with the Dutch reformed church.In 1825 the trustee and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel Henry Rutgers.
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It was a protest of the colonist who believed that the government was chrging them excessive fees. They started with a protest but ultimately were not afraid to result to violence.
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A charter was one of teh big reasons for establishing the College. It was signed by John Wenworth. It was made to establish an education for the Native Americans.
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the war was fought American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The british won
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Written by Thomas Jefferson. It was the colonial written form of the colonial independence.
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This was one of the most influential pamphlets. The pamphlet discussed republicanism and rejected the king of England.
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The general was George Washington. He surprised and captured the Hessians. As the Hessians were too ocupied with their christmas celebration.
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The battle was fought between Washington and Howe's tropps. The Americans were eventually defeated at the end of the day.
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The general's who fought in this were Howe and Washington commanded their armies against eachother. The British won the battle.
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It was turning point. The Americans came out with the win. It was one of the major battles in the Saratoga campaign.
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Four days after a French ambassador told the British that they had sided with the colonists. Britain declared war on France.
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Lee and Cornwalis took their troops into battle. The colonists retreated because of the actions of Charles Lee.
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George Rogers Clark. His ultimate goal was to eliminate the British army. The most famous part was the march of Vincennes.
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Was chosen to be a leader by General George Washington. He had commmand of troops between Delaware and Georgia.
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This was a very big battle in South Carolina resulting in a patriot victory over the loyalists. Even though they won the patriots still retreated in thought of Cornwallis' advance.
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The victory was a much needed one for the Continetal Army under general Daniel Morgan. It was very influential in teh rebel reconquest of South Carolina.
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He surrendered with 8,000 British troops. The British ships never arrived in Yorktown. This led to the colonies being able to win the war.
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It ended the Revolutionary War between the British and the colonists. Ben franklin, John Jay, and John Adams were of the men to go and talk with the British.
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This was a treaty with the six nation of the Iroquois. It made the Iroquis give their land up that was in the Ohio Country. This place quickly became populated with Anglo-Americans in the mid 1780's.
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The land ordinance established a system for surveying and selling lands in the western frontier.
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This was a way for Jefferson to show his act for establishing religious freedom. The freedom of religion was a very big part in these people's lives.
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It was a series of protests by american farmers against the state and local governements of tax collections.
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It was an ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio valley.
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It was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation. The main goal was to fix teh old government and start a new one.
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A ratication of nine states was needed to ratify a bill which in this case the new Constitution.
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It established the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Was started in part of Napoleon. Enlightenment ideals, particularly the concepts of popular sovereignty and inalienable rights were teh main cause behind everything.
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69 memebers voted him in. He was the leader of the Continental Army.
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It is the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of American citizens
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The federal tax on domestic and imported alcohol, earmarked to offset a portion of the federal government’s recent assumption of state debts.
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Coming from hamilton's finanacial plan. Allowed for places to store money and for the country earn extra money as they taxed money in the bank so they could use it.
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Federalist run by Hamilton while the DR are run by Jefferson. Both had many different views and fought about everything.
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Took place in a guillotine for high treason.
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791. The "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
The canal was going to make it easier for men and goods to transfer up to the great lakes. It went through New York
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It ran about 320 miles though NY. It was very lengthy and hard work but in the end it was going to pave the way for future success.
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From Baltimore and Ohio. they were built by the Hudson Company. The Railroad was an improvement to make trade and travel faster and easier.
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This allowed farmers to harvest crops mechanically and easier. It allowed the farmers to not use their hands but to have it pretty much done for them.
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They took place in Charlestown, Massechisetts. A convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns were burned. It was burned by a protestant mob.
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It came out of the idea of a broken sawmill blade. It made teh farmers lives easier.
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This made the people of America outraged because it made their wokr days longer. But in the end it just amde tehm eventually rebel.
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This was a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling on abor unionsBefore the legality of labor combinations in America was uncertain.
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This was the start of morse code. it was a series of taps and buzzes. The person on the other end of the line would record them and decipher them later.
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The potato fanine killed many irish as it was a harmful drought throughtout their crops. The grounf just wasnt right for the farming. Many Irish began coming to the Americas.
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The sewing machine allowed for the produvtion of clothes to be manufactured fairly quickly.
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A war between the U.S. and Mexico from the spring 1846 to fall 1847. It resuled in the defeat of Mexico and the loss of its national territory in the north.
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There were not many democrats to stand up and stick to their rights. They were eventually out numbered and their reolutions failed.
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This treaty brought peace, friendship, limits and settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.
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It started with the protest of the rise of Irish, Roman Catholic, and German immigration into the United States. The star bangled banner is still used today.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Itw as published in 1852. It brought s sense of Civil War
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The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region ofsouthern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden.
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Japan was closed off didn’t want to trade. Perry talked to them and got them to begin trade with the U.S.
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The Ostend Manifesto was a document that described the reasons for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain.
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It was signed by President Pierce. The need for the organization of the territory came from the need for a transcontinental railroad.
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It came to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which threatened to extend slavery into the territories, and to promote modernization of the economy. The Party had almost no presence in the South.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-State and pro-slavery people in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans could not be American citizens.
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The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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The Tariff of 1857 was a major tax reduction in the United States. It amended the Walker Tariff of 1846 by lowering rates to around 17% on average.
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- Lincoln Douglas debates: The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas.
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Brown raids harpers ferry; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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South carolina succeeds from the union. Statingthat declaring secession would be necessary if a Republican candidate were to win the 1860 U.S. presidential election, stating that it was the only way for the state to preserve slavery.
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Both the House of Representatives and the Senate rejected Crittenden's proposal. It was part of a series of last efforts to provide the Southern states with sufficient needs to prolong their secession during the final session of Congress prior to the Lincoln administration taking office.
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The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 was the most significant election in American history. It brought Lincoln to power at a time of great national crisis, as the country was splitting over the slavery issue.
