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separating North America and Asia by a ocean channel, after the ice age the land bridge emerged and created what is now known as Bering land bridge.
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Called a epidemic bubonic plague, a disease caused by a bacteria in pest such as rats , killing over 20 million people in europe over the time period of 5 years.
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(rebirth) ,Followed by the middle ages, the birth of the philosophy of humanism, classical art and intellect was significant during this period in ancient Greece and Rome
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The first civilization/ region in the north america, region is diverse including the olmec, the aztecs and the maya
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religious wars between Christians and Muslims started to control holy sites viewed sacred by both groups. The conflicts cause to move christians making them players to fight for land
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Rome was involved with developments were advanced in fields of medicine law region law government and warfare, the roman empire was the entity that god used to prepare the word for the birth of messiah
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The collapse of the western roman empire and invasions that came to effect because of it has slowly merged into the renaissance.
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The Caribbean would trade cash crops, like sugar,rum and wood, Barbados was first experimental tropical agricultural report colony.
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the colony of Virginia made their fortunes by tobacco, most settlers were young, white males that came over indentured servants. the region grew slowly because of disease.
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the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s economy.
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Includes New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode island and Connecticut, Africans were forced to work and they were a self governing community.
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The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline.
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The deposition of James II and the accession of his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III, prince of Orange and stadholder of the Netherlands.
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king granted a charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed , governors were elected by the colonist.
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young girls in Salem village claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused local women of witch craft, accused witches were hanged and as time go by more were to be accused.
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Owned by a person or family who make laws , granted to an individual or group by the British crown. They need a license to rule.
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a protestant religious revival that swept Europe and British american in the 1730s and 1740s, it was a movement that altered religious beliefs, practices and relationships.
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The ideas of the French Enlightenment philosophies strongly influenced the American revolutionaries they exchange ideas and define their ideals such as liberty, equality, and justice.
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Also known as the French and Indian War, began in 1756 when the fighting between French and colonists merged into a European conflict involving France, Austria, and Russia against Prussia and Britain.
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stated that the members of Parliament, including the Lords and the Crown-in-Parliament, reserved the right to speak for the interests of all British subjects, rather than for the interests of only the district that elected them or for the regions in which they held peerages and spiritual sway.
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Colonial economy refer to the system of production and consumption which were introduced in the colonies by the colonialist in order to fulfill their economic demands such as raw materials, markets, area for investment and areas for settlement.
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British soldiers was attacked by a snowballing crowd then the soldiers shot at the crowd killing 3 people and later two other died which led to a campaign by writers.
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in boston harbor, a group of colonist dressed up as mohawk indians and went aboard on British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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uses of the iron plow ,cotton gin and crank churns all helped with the
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delegates from each of the 13 colonies not including Georgia, met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to parliaments coercive acts
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a attempt to assert the rights of the colonist while maintaining their loyalty to the british crown adopted by the first continental congress.
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a historical document signed by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the british colony of virginia offering freedom to slaves who would fight for the british.
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is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual state governments that make up the United States of America
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The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments
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The British didn't leave the forts they were supposed to according to the treaty of paris , Americans complained that the British were keeping them out of the west indies and other British markets.
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Seen as one of the major factors that led to the writing of the new Constitution. When the United States first became independent, its constitution was called the Articles of Confederation.
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the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation
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An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as The Ordinance of 1787
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Candidates might be Federalists, meaning they supported the ratification of the Constitution, or Anti-Federalists, meaning they opposed ratification
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and the codes that go with it in 1835. The Morse code consisted of dots and dashes that represented each letter of the alphabet
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Free blacks gravitated to the Northern cities looking for work and a community,the North was home to only 5.7 percent of the total black population of the colonies but harbored nearly one-half of the free black population.
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a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington.
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Includes the 10 amendments to the US constitution labeled as the bill of rights, appointed to serve as rights to citizens.
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was the third quadrennial presidential election, It was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets.
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Bank of the us was to serve as a repository for federal funds and as the government’s fiscal agent,it was well managed and profitable, critics charged that the First Bank’s fiscal caution was constraining economic development, and its charter was not renewed in 1811.
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a leader of the American Revolution, and served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801. The Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated Adams began his career as a lawyer
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a protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress,
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Between 1800 and 1900, the way Americans moved around their world changed drastically. In 1800, the only practical way to travel and trade across long distances was along the nation's natural waterways.
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Jefferson ran against John Adams and received the second highest amount of votes, which according to the law at the time, made him vice president, Jefferson's political resume didn't provide much reassurance. He'd arrived on the national scene as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1775
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In a duel, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America’s political economy, died the following day.
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voyages between england africa and americas,trading raw materials and natural resources such as sugar, and Manufactured products from England and Europe such as guns, cloth, beads and Slaves
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An advocate for a strong federal government, the Virginia-born Madison composed the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and earned the nickname “Father of the Constitution.”
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the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future.
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the first major economic depression in U.S. history. Banks closed, houses and farms were foreclosed, and nearly everyone was affected.
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was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.
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a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823.
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Of the four major candidates, none received the requisite majority in the Electoral College. Ultimately, John Quincy Adams was elected the sixth president of the United States.
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the sixth president of the United States. He served one term in office from 1825 to 1829 He served as Secretary of State under James Monroe before becoming president.
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elect, ion of 1828 marked begining of the modern political party system jackson forms the democratic party, few issues were discussed mudslinging between quincy adams and jackson
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It featured a re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election.
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the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking, and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing.
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Martin Van Buren was the personal choice of Andrew Jackson and faced no opposition for the Democratic nomination. As a historical footnote, no vice-presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes cast in 1836.
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President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison. Rallying under the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,” the Whigs easily defeated Van Buren.
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Planters are the wealthiest members of society. Yeomen are owners of small farms averaging 100 acres. Poor whites often lived on land that could not grow crops, survived by hunting, fishing. Religion and society are most white southerners shared similar religious belief
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During colonial america, men of certain ages were eligible for becoming a part of the militia men which is being Unorganized solders of military .
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creates a new law or changes an existing law with the Bill that has been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and been given Royal consent by the Monarch.
