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Jamestown was formed by the Virginia Company of London. It was the first permanent english settlement in North America.
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The first slaves were in Jamestown in 1619. By the 1700's, most labor needs were filled by the forcible importation of Africans.
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The House of Burgesses was the first elected assembly in the New World. This still operates today as the "general assembly".
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The Mayflower Compact is a document where 41 englishmen agreed to obey laws created for the general good. The englishmen pledged loyalty to god and the king.
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English and French rivarly led to conflict. Both countries wanted the land west of the Appilachians and Canada.
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England gained land west of the Appilachians and Canada from France.
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England prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appilachians because it cost a lot to protect colonists from Indian attacks. This angered the colonists who wanted to move.
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England imposed taxes on colonies to pay for war debts, for troops and for legal documents.
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One evening, a mob of anti-british demonstrate formed. British troops fired into the mob. 5 colonists died.
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England put restrictions on tea. Colonists boaroled tea ships in Boston.
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Meeting of represenatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia.
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Created the continental army. Gerge Washington was general.
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British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. Minutemen assembled.
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Issued the continental congress. Written by Thomas Jefferson
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Time period during which the U.S was under the Articles of Confederation.
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Americans and French surrounded Cornwallis. Cornwallis surrendered.
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The 13 newly independent states united into one country. American political leaders adopted a weak national government.
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Established a plan for surveying the western lands.
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Called to settle disputes among states over commerce. Only 5 states show up.
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Debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts rebel due to high taxes.
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Was called to revise the ailing Articles of Confederation.
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Created a 2- house congress: Senate and The house of represenatives., Each state gets 2 senators.
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Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a states representation in House of Represenatives. Placated southern states.
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Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Washington was the first president.
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Set up the court system. Three executive departments were created: Departments of state, treasury, and war.
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The first 10 ammendments make up the Bill of Rights.
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Inventor: Eli Whitney. Made cotton growing very profitable.
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Adams was a federalist. He aslo defeated jefferson in the election of 1796.
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Jefferson was a democratic republican. He supported a weak national government.
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Jefferson bought this land from France. It doubled the size of the U.S.
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Marshall declared a law unconstiutional. Established the power of judicial review.
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Caused by british interference with american shipping. Also caused by british aid to the indians in the west.
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Marshall upheld the federal got's right to establish a bank. Said a state couldnt tax the bank due to national supremacy.
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Divided LA purchase at 36, 30. North of the line: free
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A series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821. It was passed to mantian the balance of power between slave states and free states.
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The court overturned a stamped monopoly. Confirmed the federal gov'ts power over commerce.
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By president Monroe. Said the west was difference from Europe.
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The common man was symblized by Andrew Jackson. Jackson believed the "average" man was capable of running governments.
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Jackson was the 7th president of the United States. Jackson was a politician and army general.
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Signed into law by Andrew Jackson. Forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the west.
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A womens rights convention. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
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A series of Congressional measures. Intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
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Enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850. Designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
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A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portayed slavery as a great moral evil.
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Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery,
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A slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory. The Supreme court ruled that African Americans arent citizens so he had no right to sue.
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The main issue of this election was slavery. Abraham Linclon won.
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First battle of the Civil War. Fort Sumter was in South Carolina but it remained under Union.
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Law that gave free public land in the west in 160 acre plots. Only condtion was that settlers had to use it for at least 5 years.
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The main effect was that Liclon issued the Emancipation Proclimation. Lee went North and lost.
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The Proclimation freed slaves in the rebelling states. Linclon started using black troops.
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Grant wins. This cut the confederacy in half.
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Lee was pushed North into Pennsylvania. This was a 3 day battle.
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Short speech by Linclon. Dedicated to cemetery.
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Abolished Slavery.
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Restored southern states into the union. Determined the process of African Americans.
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Lee surrendered. Lee urged Southerners to accept surrender and unite as Americans.
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He was assasinted shortly after war. He was shot by John Wilks Booth.
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The republican was Rutherford B Hayes and the Democrat was Samuel J. Tiden. Disputed election results.
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Put South under Military occupation. Took place in 1867.
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Prohibited states from denying equal rights to any American. Gave citizenship to blacks.
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The founder was Uriah Stevens.
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Voting rights for African Americans.
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Established seperate facilites for Blacks and Whites. Black facilites were inferior.
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Northen and Western Europe. Germany, GB, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden.
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Passed by US congress. Signed into law by President Chester a. Aurther.
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Indians were forced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservations.
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a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Bomb went off near police. 8 strikers convicted.
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The goal was to Americanize the Indians. Legally abolished tribes.
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Plant manager Henry Frick called the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Major gun battle.
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The founder was Eugene V. Debs.
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike. Held in the US.
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S.C said "seperate but equal". Upheld Jim Crow Laws of segregation.
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Souther and Eastern Europe. Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Yugoslavia.
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Put a quota of how many immigrants could come frome each country. Allowed more from old immigrant countires than new immigrant countries.
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Formally known as The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes . John scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Bulter Act.
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share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. Became a factor of the great depression.
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It began with the stock market crash. Ended in 1939
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the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States that suffered a severe drought.
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32nd President if the United States. Served for 12 years.
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Policies for econmoic improvent. Introduced in 1933.
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set of federal programs launched by FDR. Response to the Great Depression
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An act to provide for the general welfare.
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establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards.
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Stalin and Hitler agree not to attack eachother.
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World War 2 begins when Hitler Invaded Poland. Went agaianst the Treaty of Versailles
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Island of Hawaii. Attacked by Japan
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naval battle of World War 2.
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Allied invasion of Normandy. During World War 2.
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The uneasy peace afer WWII, marked by a rivlary between the US and the Soviet Union, lasting from 1945-1991. Foreign policy was a major issue.
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Massive U.S financial aid package to rebiuld Europes economies. The goal was to prevent the spread of communism
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The Soviets blockade West Berlin. The U.S flew supplies in.
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Defensive alliance amoung the US and western Europe countries. The mail goal was to prevent a soviet invasion of western Europe.
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Divided Korea. The north was communist and the south was democratic.
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Elections were in 1952 and 1956. 34th President.
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Alliance amoung Soviet Union and East European countries. Both sides maintained large military forces in Europe.
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The Soviets launched Sputnik into space. The Space Race began.
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Francis Gary Powers was shot down while spying over the Soviet Union.
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Election was in 1960. During his inaguration he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
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Between East and West Berlin.
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The Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in Cuba. JFK demanded their removal and blockaded Cuba.
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Took place in Dallas, TX. Shot by Lee Harvy Oswald.
