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Period: Dec 8, 1300 to
The 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. Known as the rebirth was an important time for arts and culture in Europe. -
Period: Dec 8, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
The Age of Discovery from the 15th century to the 18th century, marking the time in which overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture. Included people like Christopher Columbus who was credited with finding North America.
Amerigo Vespucci- who was a spanish explorer who played a huge part in finding the new world.
Ferdinand Magellan - Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer -
Period: Dec 8, 1450 to
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was a sea trade connecting the “Old World” and the “New World” Chirstopher Columbus and his men unexpectedly land in the Bahamas, discovering the New World and initiating the Columbian Exchange. important because it brought all new plants and spices that had become an important profit in Europe. -
Dec 8, 1488
Bantolomeau Dias
In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the southern tip of Africa. His voyage showed that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans flowed into each other. Dias' discovery paved the way for Vasco da Gama's voyage to India. -
Dec 8, 1519
Hernan Cortez
Hernan Cortez lands and explores yuctan peninsula
eventually cortez takes over the local cilvilation then destroys the Mayan civilitaion by spreading dieseas and overall killing the myans.
a conquistador -is a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. -
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The House Of Burgesses
the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature.
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America. This group of representatives met from 1619 until 1776. -
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King Philip's War
aslo known as the first Indian war was awar between the New England Colonist and the confederate indians under King Philips rule. Important because it shows the growing tension between the INdians and the colonies. -
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. Important because it show the growing tenstion between the colonies -
English Bill of rights
he Bill creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech. -
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the Great awakening
The term Great Awakening can refer to several periods of religious revival in American religious history. Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of increased eligious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century. -
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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 -
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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. -
Articles of confederation
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. -
whiskey rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington.the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
Interchangeable parts
Created by Eli whitney who invented the cotton gin. Interchaneable parts aslo chnaged how the south made more cotton making slavery even more in demand -
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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. Importany because it shows how african americans tried to fight for their freedom. -
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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Dorothea 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. -
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin -
The treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent, 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. -
MIssouri Compromise
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.Important because it caused even more tenstion between the north and south. -
Monroe doctrine
t 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. Important beacuse it showed how american wanted to not get caught up in European problems -
The erie Cannal
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that originally was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes -
The Tarniff of abominations
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.Caused even more tension between the norht and south due to the norths growing industry -
Indian removal act
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. Inportant because once agin the Native Americans are removed from there homes -
William Lloyd Garrison
started and abolishment paper callled the liberator, helped the new england anitslavery society.
Abolition movement-for abolitionist movement
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal -
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The California gold Rush
was a period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall. Caused a mad rush to Califorina to find gold and get rich -
the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
fficially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, -
compromise of 1850
he Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Kansas Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty -
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The radical Republican
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. -
Dred Scott
A slave from Missouri who wanted to become a free man. Because he claimed that he had become a free man bu already living in a free terittory. -
Hapers Ferry
John Brown who sarted an uprising in the u.s He led a band of 21 men black and white to start a rebellion against for a slave revolt atacking a federal armory. -
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Confederate states of America
led by Jefferson davis February 9, 1861 - The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president. Wanted to be its own nation by seperating from the Union fighting in the civil war. -
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. -
Bull Run 1&2
confederate victory lead by stonewall Jackson-stook firm
raised the spirit of the south. after battle Lincoln replaced the the Union general. Second Battle Lead by Robert ELee In 1862 in august.Lee was the x factor for the south -
The battle Of Shiloh
Johnston surpised attack on Grants camps at shiloh Church
The north Forced back the confederates from the land they got the previos day
Turning Point for the war
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The Battle of Antietam
Generals south- Lee
norht-Mccellan
Decided the Fate of the war
Morale rose in the south
Bloodest Battle in North America
Ended in a draw
Confedereates took more of a hit then the North
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Fredricksburg
confederate victory Leaders were Burnside from the UNion General the confederate has robert E lee. The aftermath was that LIncoln was Under attack and Burnside was fired.Moral boost for the South. south was outnumbered and still won against the Union made them think they could really win -
Chacellorsville
South win due to Robert E lee having great leadership and dividing his troops and deafeating the north. the south lost stonewall jackson in the process ending one of the best leadership trios in the south's army -
Gettysburg
General lee on confederate and mead on the Union
was a Union victory,Gettysburg had the biggest death toll over the civl war. Fought in two rank line shoulder to shoulder. Pickets charge was a Battle Stategy that was and assult on ordered bt Robert E.Lee. only Battle Fought in the North. -
Vicksburg
the union sorruonded the town cutting off sulplies forcing the union to surrounder. Grante verse Pemberton generals
African-American war Participaited in the war.Vicksburg fell the to the union Confederates lost control of the missisippi river.37000 lost lives in total -
the Battle at Atlanta
Sherman
Hood
Hood wanted to drive the union away from the railroads forced civillians to leave there houses
Union won the battle
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The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48) -
Shermans March
from Atlanta to Georgia idea was to frighten the civiltiation
sherman soldiers burnedd houses if people fought back
Destroyed the south Moral ending the civil war that April example of total war Divide and Conqure seperaated The General Robert E. Lee was with out the rest of his troops -
The Anaconda Plan
plan for the north to defeat the south. blocked of southern ports.
weakend the confederacy,helped end the war. -
Freedmans Bureu
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). -
Battle at Petersburg
confederates dug trenches around petersburg for cover
The Union attackes the Suply for the Confederates
Grant sent his troops to cut the supplies of the confederates
Ending the war
Women durring the war-spicked womens right
African American-half the popluation was Black -
Appomattox Courthouse
Lee was Generall and
Grant was the Union General
Confederates were in retreat the Union had more men
leading the south to surrender
ended the war in Virginia
triggered a serrioes pf surrenders
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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. -
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 -
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Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. -
Civil Rights acts 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. -
Civil Act 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. -
The 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. -
14th Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment 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." -
15th Amendment
the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits states from denying voting rights to citizens based on race, color or previous condition of servitude (meaning slavery).
Futhermore having the south pay for there actions with reparations -the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. -
Enfforcement 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.
Brought up the concerns of the Ku Ku Ku which is a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which -
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The 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. -
carpetbaggers
carpetbaggers, epithet used in the South after the Civil War to describe Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to make money. -
ku-klux-klan
a secret organization inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and active in the southern and other parts of the U.S., directed against blacks, Catholics, Jews, and the foreign-born. -
The alien and Sedtition acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams -
The Louisiana purchase
Search Results 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 -
Hartford Covention
The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings from December 15, 1814 – January 5, 1815 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812
