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Period: 100 to
Migrate
Species have migrated since the dawn of time to this very day. Migration is to move from one region or habitat to another, especially regularly according to the seasons. -
Period: 100 to
Adobe
Adobe is a building material made from earth and often organic material. -
Period: 100 to Jan 1, 1450
Hohokam
The Hohokam were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day US state of Arizona. -
Period: 100 to
Missionary
a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. -
Period: 100 to
Missionary
Christian mission is an organized effort for the propagation of the Christian faith. -
Period: 100 to
Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. -
Period: 100 to
Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified -
Period: 100 to
Separatist
A person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender. -
Period: 100 to
Pilgrim
A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. -
Period: 100 to
Push & Pull Factors
A push factor is a flaw or distress that drives a person away from a certain place. A pull factor is something concerning the country to which a person migrates. It is generally a benefit that attracts people to a certain place. Push and pull factors are usually considered as north and south poles on a magnet. -
Period: 100 to
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Period: 100 to
Habeus Corpus
Habeas corpus is a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. -
Period: 100 to
Mercantilism
The belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. -
Period: 100 to
Cash Crops
A cash crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term cash crop is applied exclusively to the agricultural production of plants; animal agriculture is not a part of the terminology. -
Period: 100 to
Popular Sovereignty
Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. -
Period: 100 to
Limited Government
Limited government is a principle of classical liberalism, free market libertarianism, and some tendencies of liberalism and conservatism in the United States. A constitutionally limited government is a system of government that is bound to certain principles of action by a state constitution. -
Period: 100 to
Loose Costruction
A broad interpretation of a statute or document by a court. -
Period: 100 to
Strict Construction
Opposite of Loose constrruction -
Period: 100 to
Tariff
A tax that is usually found on imported goods. -
Period: 100 to
Imressment
Impressment, colloquially, "the press" or the "press gang", refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means. -
Period: 100 to
War Hawks
War hawks are the opposite of doves. The terms are derived by analogy with the birds of the same name: hawks are predators that attack and eat other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit and are historically a symbol of peace. -
Period: 200 to Jan 1, 1300
Anasazi
The Anasazi ("Ancient Ones"), thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, inhabited the Four Corners country of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona from about A.D. 200 to A.D. 1300, leaving a heavy accumulation of house remains and debris. -
Period: 250 to
Maya Civilization
The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. -
Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1521
Aztecs
The Aztecs are a tribe, according to their own legends, from Aztlan somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. From this place, which they leave in about the 12th century AD, there derives the name Aztecs by which they are known to western historians. -
Period: Jan 1, 718 to Jan 1, 1492
Reconquista
The Reconquista is the name given to a long series of wars and battles between the Christian Kingdoms and the Muslim Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula. -
Period: Jan 1, 1142 to
Iroquois League
The Iroquois, who prefer to be known as the Haudenosaunee, are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy. -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age. -
Period: Mar 4, 1394 to Nov 13, 1460
Prince Henry the Navigator
Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Henry the Navigator was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire. Through his administrative direction, he is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discoveries. -
Period: Jan 1, 1440 to
Middle Passage
African slaves were thereafter traded for raw materials, which were returned to Europe to complete the "Triangular Trade". The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. -
Period: Jan 1, 1450 to May 29, 1500
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so. -
Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Jan 1, 1500
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European exploration of the mainland of North America since the Norse Vikings' visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. -
Period: Jan 1, 1451 to May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to have completed any journey across the Atlantic. -
Period: Mar 9, 1454 to Feb 22, 1512
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America", -
Period: Jan 1, 1460 to Dec 23, 1524
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively, and in this way, the West and the Orient. This was accomplished on his first voyage to India. -
Period: Jan 1, 1466 to Jun 29, 1520
Moctezuma
He was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan. The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. -
Period: Jan 1, 1467 to Jan 1, 1520
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. -
Period: Jan 1, 1480 to Apr 27, 1521
Fredinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth. -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to Dec 2, 1547
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. -
Period: Aug 3, 1492 to
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Conquistador
a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Puritans
The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Mestizo
Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish America to mean a person of combined European and Amerindian descent -
Period: Jan 1, 1509 to
Seperation of Powers
The separation of powers, often imprecisely used interchangeably with the trias politica principle, is a model for the governance of a state (or who controls the state). The model was first developed in Congress. Under this model, the state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches. -
Period: Jan 1, 1520 to
Joint-Stock Company
A joint-stock company is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by his or her shares (certificates of ownership). -
Period: Jan 1, 1535 to
Viceroy
A viceroy is a regal official who runs a country, colony, or city province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to
Powhatan
The Powhatan are a Native American people in Virginia. -
Period: Jan 1, 1550 to
Cabinet
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, a cabinet under a presidential system of government is part of the executive branch. In addition to administering their respective segments of the executive branch, cabinet members are responsible for advising the head of government on areas within their purview. -
Period: Aug 13, 1574 to
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. -
Period: Jan 1, 1580 to
John Smith
John Smith, Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. -
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John Winthrop
John Winthrop was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony. -
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Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury, was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. -
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Royal Colony
A Royal Colony was a type of colonial administration of the British overseas territories. Crown, or royal, colonies were ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch. -
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Proprietary Colony
A proprietary colony was a type of British colony mostly in North America and the Caribbean in the 17th century. In the British Empire, all land belonged to the king, and it was his prerogative to divide. -
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Indentured Servant
Indentured servitude was a labor system where people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere. -
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the unofficial, long-term seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. -
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Roger Williams
Roger Williams was an English Puritan theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. -
House of Burgesses
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints". Later they were referred to as Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers. They were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. -
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Lord Baltimore
Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore Manor in County Longford, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. -
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Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies. -
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Metacom
Metacomet, also known by his adopted English name King Philip, was a Wampanoag and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief of his people in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta died shortly after their father Massasoit. -
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William Penn
William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. -
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Quaker
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a group of religious Christian movements which is known as the Religious Society of Friends in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of North America; and known as the Friends Church in Africa, Asia, South America and parts of the US. The movements were originally, and are still predominantly based on Christianity. -
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Abolition Movement
The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal." -
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King Philip's War
King Philip's War, sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, or Metacom's Rebellion, was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
English Bill of Rights
The Meaning and Definition of the English Bill of Rights: The 1689 English Bill of Rights was British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and librties of the people and settling the succession in William and Mary following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James II was overthrown. -
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James Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prisons, in the New World. -
Period: to
Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, known in French as the Siècle des Lumières, and in German as the Aufklärung, was a philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. -
Period: to
Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening began in the 1730s and lasted to about 1743, though pockets of revivalism had occurred in years prior, especially amongst the ministry of Solomon Stoddard, Jonathan Edwards's grandfather. -
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John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States. -
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father of the United States, chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution, the founder of the nation's financial system, the founder of the Federalist Party, the world's first voter-based political party, the Father of the United States Coast Guard, and the founder of The New York Post. -
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. -
Presidio
A presidio is a fortified base established by the Spanish in areas under their control or influence. -
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Bicameral Legislature
A bicameral legislature is one in which the legislators are divided into two separate assemblies, chambers or houses. -
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Checks and Balances
To prevent one branch from becoming supreme, protect the "opulent minority" from the majority, and to induce the branches to cooperate, government systems that employ a separation of powers need a way to balance each of the branches. -
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Nullification
Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts. -
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Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. was an American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. -
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Articles of Confederation
After considerable debate and alteration, the Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect. -
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Shays' Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
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Great Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
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Northwest Ordinance (1787)
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance or The Ordinance of 1787) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States (the Confederation Congress), passed July 13, 1787. -
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The Federalist
The Federalist (later known as The Federalist Papers) is a collection of 85 articles and essays written (under the pseudonym Publius) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. -
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2nd Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
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Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
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Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams in 1798. -
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Manifest Destiny
The Idea that the American continent was the oister of The United States of America. -
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths. -
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Interchangable Parts
Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type. One such part can freely replace another, without any custom fitting (such as filing). -
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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
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Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. -
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Judicial Review
Judicial review is the doctrine under which legislative and executive actions are subject to review by the judiciary. A court with judicial review power may invalidate laws and decisions that are incompatible with a higher authority, such as the terms of a written constitution. -
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. -
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Hartford Convention
The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings inHartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. -
Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent (8 Stat. 218), signed on December 24, 1814 in the city of Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. -
American System
This "System" consisted of three mutually reenforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture. -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
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Mormon Movement
The Mormon movement is te collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
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Utopian Comunity
An idelic town that is completely self-reliant. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. -
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Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian democracy is the political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. -
Tariff of Abominations
The "Tariff of 1828" was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
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Lone Star Republic
Texas -
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought—mostly by sailing ships and covered wagons—some 300,000 gold-seekers (called "forty-niners", as in "1849") to California. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush also attracted some tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War (1846–48). -
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Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
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Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from before the Civil War until the end of Reconstruction. The advocated for civil rights. -
Fort Sumter
The first battle of the Civil War, this battle set the scene of easy confederate victories and hard fought Union advances. 2 men were lost, several more were injured. The Union lost fort sumter. Fort sumter was an americna fort that refused to surrender to the seceeded state it was located in -
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Anaconda Plan
THe Union planned to starve the south out. They cut off ports, railroads, and roads. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
Lincoln rushed and wanted the war to be over. The commander of the union was General Irvin McDowell. The South was led by General Joseph E. Johnson. South won the battle. There were around 4k casualties. Afterwards, Lincoln signed a bill that established the draft. The commander was replaced. -
The Second Battle of Bull Run
The Union was led by General John Pope. The confederacy was led by General Robert E. Lee.18k casualties. 63k Union to 50k Southern troops were part of this battle. The South won this battle. On a grand scale, nothing changed. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Completely unplanned.
2k men killed.
Twice as may union deaths than confederate deaths. -
The Battle of Chancellorsville
'Stonewall' Jackson was killed. Set Robert E. Lee to win other battles. Confederacy won. Principle battle of the Chancellorsville campaign. -
The Battle of Vicksburg
Part of the anaconda plan. One of the last Confederate strongholds on the Misissippi. 77k union and gunships vs 33k confederate. They originally tried other plans to capture it. Residents of VIcksburg dug caves to hide from union artillery -
Battle of Gettysburg
The union repelled the final Confederate advance.
8 thousand med died.
Lincoln gave a speech afterwards -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
A violent thrust for the union to get to the sea. Sherman blazed through confederate territory, burning everything he came across. -
Petersburg
The battle's goal was to cut off rail lines. The Union won this battle. It was part of the anaconda plan. -
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Reconstruction
The process of rebuiling the nation after the Civil War tore it apart -
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Freedmen's Bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). -
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Black Codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed. -
Appomatox Courthouse
South surrendered early
700 causualties.
Union troops told not to taunt the confederate troops. -
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
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Quebec
Quebec is a province in east-central Canada. -
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14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
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Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
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15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
