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first of the great medieval trading empires of western Africa
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The Empire of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic Coast to central parts of the Sahara desert.
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The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo speaking people.
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He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas.
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Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia.
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agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
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Hernan Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire.
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refers to two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to find the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Jamestowne is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Plymouth Rock was the site where William Bradford and other Pilgrims first set foot on land.
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King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore.
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was an armed rebellion.
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second in a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France in North America for control of the continent.
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was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies.
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The war between the French and the Indian is also known as the French and Indian War.
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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the English Parliament to regulate shipping and maritime commerce
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire.
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an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England.
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
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The Declaration of Independence signifies some of the principles and ideas of the founding fathers which the government of the United States follows today.
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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States.
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General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops.
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The causes of the revolt, which became known as Shays Rebellion was money or the lack of money.
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Confederation Congress chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
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The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America.
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States.
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A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress
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The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803.
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It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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The revolutionary tract called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality.
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The American victory on Lake Champlain led to the conclusion of U.S.-British peace negotiations in Belgium.
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victory in central Alabama over Native Americans opposed to white expansion into their territories.
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The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state
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The formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
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The main cause of the war was the westward expansion of the United States.
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Ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.
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Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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An enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857