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Granted rights to both Nobles and Freemen
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Britain assed the Sugar Act on the colonies in order to pay debts from the French and Indian War .
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Roanoke was the first attempted colony in America.
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Jamestown was the first permanent settlenment in the "New World"
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The House of Burgesses was the 1st Reprsentative Assemly on the Colonies
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The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement to form a self-goverment in the colonies
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RI was founded byRoger Williams for religious freedom.
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Were passed byEngland to regulate colonial commerce to suit English needs
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Bacon and his followers rebelled against the Massachsetts goverment when a war against the Native American was declined.
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William Penn founded Pnnsylvania for religious tolerance
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People were accused of being witches and put on trial them ultimately to their death.
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The Great Awakening was a religious renewal movement throught the colonies .People wanted Ameicans to go back to the religious roos that brought them to American
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Benjamin Frankln punlished the firtpoor Richard's Almanac
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The Zenger Trial is the reason that we now have the 1st amendment to our Constition.He was aquitted from charges that he spoke negatvely about the goverment/
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Bejamin Franklin wrote the Albany plan of Union in 1754 in order to organize the colonies
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The French and Indian War began.
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Forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachain Mountains.
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These Acts were passes in the colonies in order to raise revelues for England.These were basically The other repealed acts combined.
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The Stamp Act and Quartering Acts was passed by Brittain in the colonies that taxed certain goods and required colonist to house british soldiers
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British soldiers fired into a group of colonists,killing four and Chrispus Attucks.This was used as Anti-British propaganda
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Colonist dressed as Native Americans threw 342 chest of tea in the Bostin Harbor in protest of the Tea act.
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Britain passed thr Intolerable Acts to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
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12 or 13 colonies met to discuss civil disobedience against Britain in response to the Intolerable Acts
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this was said by Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention.
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Paul Revere,William Dawes,and Willia Prescott ride to warn the colonists that the British are coming
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Thomas paine wrote Common Sense to promote independence as the right path to take
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This document Written by Thomas Jefferson,was approved on July,4,1776.
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Was the turning point of the Revolution .This battle, along with Benjamin Franklin,helped convince the French to help us in the Revolution
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Contintal Congress as the first goverment;.
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"I have not yet begun to fight!"
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Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown .Making it the lst major battle of The Revolution
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This treaty ended The Revolution
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This Ordinance set the orderly pattern of growth for the United States and accelerated westward expansion.
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George Wasington elected 1st President of the U.S
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The Bill of Rightswas the reason all the states ratified the Constitution.
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This was a rebellion by farmers over the tax on whiskey.It was deemed a just tax because the U.S. goverment passed it,not Britain
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Eli Whitney inveted the Cotton Gin
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Washington gave a fairwell addres after deciding not to run for a 3rd term.Thisset a precedent for all other presidents to follow and he warned against political parties and entangling foreign alliances
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Established judical review.The Sumpreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution.
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Doubled the siza of the U.S.Bought by Thomas Jefferson from France for $15 millon,
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Lewis and Clark,along with Sacagewea,explored the LA Territory for Jefferson.The expedition ended September 23,1806
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Robert fulton invented the Steamboat.
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The war of 1812 began. Three main causes were British interference with American shipping,allying with the Native Americans, and impressment of U.S. sailors.
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Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner.
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Said there was to be more European colonization of the Americas and the U.S. was a protector of Latin America.This distunguished the U.S. as a world power.
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Battle that signified the beginning of the Civil War
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Jakson's Indian Removal Act forced the Cherokees on to the Trail of Tears
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Samuel F.B. Morse invented the Telegraph
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Women's rights convection led by Luretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote this book
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Decided that slaves did not become free in a free state because they wereno citizens
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Abraham Lincoln elected Presidednt
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Jefferson Davis was the president o the Confederate State of America
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This ws the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
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Lincoln issues this speech freeing all slaves in areas still in rebellion
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Lincoln famous speech after the Battle of Gettysburg
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Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse
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The 13th amendment officially abolished slavery.
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Provided citizanship for all persons born or naturilizad in the U.S.
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Making race no bar for voting rights
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Clara Barton Founded the Red Cross.
