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Columbus is the first European to arrive in the new world
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- the first successful colony
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The first colony made but it fails
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Anthony Johnson was a black Angolan known for achieving wealth
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The first slaves are brought into America
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It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
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Colony named after William Penns father
One of original 13 colonies
Found by William Penn -
a series of hearings and prosecutions
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American colonies
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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A war between the French and the Indians
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- tax on British colonies
- stamp on papers
- “join or die”
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British soldiers in Boston killed 5 American colonist
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- protest by Sons of Liberty -Boston, Massachusetts -tax on tea
- “no taxation without representation -Samuel Adams
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a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies
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the group of leaders who worked to create the Declaration of Independence
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kicked off the American Revolutionary War
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This is the end of the war
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an agreement among the 13 original states
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Farmers rebelled
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William Penn settles now-a-day
Pennsylvania -
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Decision on how America was going to be governed • Was first arranged to edit the Articles of Confederation
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• Became the framework of the government of the US when New Hampshire 9th out of 13 states to ratify the Constitution
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• “FATHER of our country
• Helped with the Constitution
• Commander of America during Revolutionary War -
Published 1796
• Letter written by President George
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• 4 laws passed by the federalists- dominated 5th United States Congress
• Signed by John Adams in 1798 -
• 1801
• 3rd President -
• The US got the territory from France in 1803
• The US got 828,000 sq mi for 15,000,000 -
Aka Corps of Discovery Expedition
• Crossed the new eastern portion of the country after Louisiana Purchase -
Eastern and Central North America
• Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
• James Madison was President
• The U.S, against the UK of Britain and Ireland and other allies -
US policy toward the Western Hemisphere
• Made in routine by President James Monroe in December 1823
• Told the Europeans that that US doesn’t allow colonization and puppet monarchs . -
Federal legislation
• Made Maine a free state
• Made Missouri a slave state
• Balanced the power between North and South in the US Senate
Andrew Jackson as President
• American soldier
• 17th President
• Democratic Party
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• Escaped north to freedom at 20
• Settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts with wife
• Developed into a charismatic public speaker
• Anti- slavery movement -
Passes in 1850 by Congress
• Part of the compromise of 1850
• Slaves to be returned to their owners, even if in a free state
• Made the federal government responsible for catching escaped slaves -
5 separate bills passed by the US
• Political confrontation between slave and free states received in the Mexican- American War -
Anti slavery novel
• 1852
• Book was in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws -
• War in Kansas territory
• Kansas and Missouri
• Political and ideological debate over the legality of my slavery -
• Supreme Court of the US
• Rule was that slicing in a free state doesn’t mean a slaved person is free -
• 16th President
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• Civil war between the US
• Fight between the northern states loyal to to the union
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• Shot and Killed at Ford Theater in Washington
• Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -
• Known as the civil war amendments
• Were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves
