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The first permanent English settlement in America founded in the Virginian colony.
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Seperated the government powers into three branches: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive.
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Trying to reduce suggling by increasing taxes, angered the colonist, and ended up causing economic suffereing.
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Colonists harass stamp distributors, boycott British goods and prepare a Declaration of rights and grievances.
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Prevented stamps from being sold. This act essentially embodied the colonist mantra of "No Taxation Without Representaion"
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Served as propaganda to start the revolutionary war.
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Lead to the intolerable Acts. King George III tighted control over massachuttes by closing Boston Harbor.
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Called for the seperation of colonies from Britain and assuaged fears.
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Declared freedom from Britian. Created the basis of our Nation and forced Americans to choose between revolution or loyalty to britains crown.
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Gave the national government the power for things such as declaring war, making peace, and establishing a postal service. It also left problems though with how the government should carry out or enforce acts of the congress.
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Proved how week the government was at the time, and paved the path to the constitution.
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Allowed for the mass production of cotton thereby turning America into a world economic power.
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The first reall challenge the US goverment faced since it had been founded. It demonstrates the revolutionary fire Americans held after the first war for independence.
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Lead to the formation of new denominations and was the cause of several reforms.
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Played a major role in the election of 1798 and 1780 becasue they were a controversial political issue.
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The U.S. government acquisitioned the Louisiana territory from Napoleon occupied France.
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Lewis and Clark ended up discovering all of the Louisianna purchase territory!
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The beginning of a long process leading to the statehood of Texas.
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It ended the imperialism of Europe in the Americas.
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Jackson began the spoils system and moved all Native Americans.
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Forced employers to create better working conditions.
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Initally leady to Mexican troops being removed from Texas but was later learned to be invaild and then eventually lead to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Cherokee were at the mercy of the US government. They were forced to walk to Oklahoma and effectively resulted in the genocide of the Native American peoples as a culture.
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Declared Texas as the 28th state.
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Ended the U.S.-Mexican War.
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Women's Rights Convention passed a "Declaration of Sentiments" into the declaration of independence giving women their rights but still not allowing them the right to vote.
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It expanded the West. Many people flocked to California to try and strike it rich mining for gold. This lead to terretory surrounding california to become occupied. Also it lead to california becoming a state in 1850.
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The Compromise temporarily ended slave controversey. It pissed off many abolisionists and caused more people to become free soilers.
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delivered the message that slavery was not just a political consent but also a great moral struggle; caused the Northern abolitionists to increase their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act; caused new controversy over slavery drew hated debate.
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The Purchase of Gadsden allowed for the transcontenental railroad to be built in the west.
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Bleeding Kansas was the microcosom of the civil war. Abolisionists and slave holders confronted eachother about whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. This event forshadowed the civil war.
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Stated that slaves were property and did not have rights.
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The execution of martial abolitionist John Brown is considered one of the final sparks before the Civil War.
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Played a major roll in beginning the Civil War
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Began the sucession of the southern states into the confederacy.
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Shows that the confederacy is serious about suceeding and forming a new government.
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This fire on Fort Sumter offically started the civil war. The war was concidered to be started by the Confederacy fired the first shot.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was a major turning poin in the civil war. From that point on the north was in controll of the war.
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Lincoln stated that he was making the war about uniting America.
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Freed all slaves that were in the confederevy, giving union troops more reason to fight.
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The Union had won. This event was the official end of the civil war.
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Lincoln died.
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Prohibited slavery and indentured servitude.
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Made people bon in the US citizens.
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Prohibits states from denying the right to vote to natural born citizens.