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Jamestown was formed by the Virginia Company of London and was the 1st permanent English settlement in North America.
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The first slaves went to Jamestown.
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The House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly in North America.
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The Mayflower Compact pledged loyalty to God and the King. This was the first government document of the Plymouth colony.
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The French and Indian War of the first colonial war
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England gained the land west of the Appalachians and in Canada from France.
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England prohibited colonist from settling west of the Appalachians.
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Placed a tax on legal documents.
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British fired into crowd and killed 5 colonist.
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Colonist dress up like Indians and pour British tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies to issue a statement of colonial rights.
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1st skirmish of the war.
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Created the Continental Army and issued the Olive Branch Partition.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson. The colonist were officially separated from England.
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1781-1788 Time period during which the US was under the Articles of Confederatio n
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First government of America. Very weak.
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Americans and French surrounded the British. Cornwallis surrenders and America wins.
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England acknowledged American Independence.
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Established a plan for surverying the western lands.
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Held by James Madison to discuss trade in the states.
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Slaves count as 3/5th of a person when determining a state's representation.
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Debt-riddn farmers in Massachusettes rebel.
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Was held to talk about the problems with the Articles of Confederation, Ended up creating the Constitution.
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Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Agreement that large and small states would have representation based on size and population.
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George Washington's presidential term.
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The establishment of the US's first judicial branch.
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The first ten amendments of the Declaration of Independence.
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Congress passed a law that made runaway slaves return to owners.
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Eli Whitney invented this during the American Industrial Revolution.
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Adam's presidencial term
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Lead slaves into Richmond, VA.
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Thomas Jefferson's residential term
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Established the power of Judicial review.
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Jefferson bought this land from France and it doubled the size of the US.
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Lasted for 2 and a half years, between US and Britian.
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Established the doctrine of Implied Powers.
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Time when democracy in US expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process.
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Missouri choose to be a slave state.
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Confirmed the federal government power over commerce.
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Said that europe could not settle in US.
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Andrew Jackson's Presidential term.
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Made Native American's move to reservstions.
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Moved indian tribes west of the Mississippi River.
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Slaves killed 60 white people,
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Texan's fortified themselves in the Alamo (old mission house)
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Texas won Independance.
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The US annexes Texas.
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President Polk wanted the southwest.
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First womens rights convention in the US.
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Spilt the slave states and the free states.
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Anti- Slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Case on which slavery sould be allowed in the West.
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First shots of the Civil War.
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Bloodest battle of the Civil War
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Freed Slaves
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Restoring southern states to the Union
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FInal major battle of the Civil War
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Largest battle of the Civil War.
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Short speech by Lincoln. Said US was one nation, not seperate states.
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Abolished slavery.
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Lee surrendered to Grant. Ends war.
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Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the war.
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Hayes vs. Tilden, disputed election results
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Put south under military occupation.
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Prohibited states from denying equal rights to any American.
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Estabilished seperate facilities for whites and blacks.
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Voting rights for African Americans
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Largest american labor organization in the 1880's.
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The US kept Chinese from coming into US and becoming citizens.
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Happened in Pittsburg.
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Largest labor union of its time.
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