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The British Parliament passed four laws in reaction to the Boston Tea Party.
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When the British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of Great Britain.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. It was a great propaganda victory for the colonists.
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One of the most important documents in the history of the United States.
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An uprising led by a former militia officer which broke out in western Massachusetts.
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The Constitution of the United States guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens and established America's national government and fundamental laws.
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First ten amendments to the Constitution.
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Transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies.
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A revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania against a federal excise tax on whiskey.
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A land deal between the United States and France, in which the US acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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It was the US's greatest battlefield victory of the War of 1812. It prevented a British effort to gain control of a critical American port and elevated Major General Andrew Jackson to national fame.
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US's federal Legislation that admitted Maine to the US as a free state. As well as with Missouri as a slave state while maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the US Senate.
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A US policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
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The common man now had the right to vote, without the distinction of owning land, nominating candidates to office, and rewarding the politicians that represented the common man's interests.
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Ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the US.
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The decision argued that as a slave Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the US.
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Fought between the US and Confederate States. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery.
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, VA.
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Declared "that all persons held as slaves", within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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A Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
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All the principal Confederate armies surrendered, and when Union cavalry captured the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis, resistance collapsed and the war ended.
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Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
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Protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.
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US Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.