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American Indians were in the US and the Americas thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans
Mound Builders- Practice by Ancient American Indian Civilizations in N. America before Europeans came.(Ancestors of Amrican Indians) -
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Lands on Hispaniola
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Eastern Canada
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Mexico and Central America
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Explored Grand Canyon, SW United States
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Sir Walter Raleigh
John White
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Virginia Company of London
First Permanent English Settlement -
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After the French and Indian War. Limited the expansion of English colonies to the east of the Appalachian Mtns.
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Named after Prime Minister Grenville, The Grenville Acts include the sugar act and the stamp act.
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Required colonists to print mail on stamped paper. Used as a resource to raise money to supprt british troops in America.
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the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges
paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea that were imported into the colonies -
A result of the Tea Act a part of the Townshend Acts.
Resulted in the Intolerable Acts,. -
"Coercive Acts"
Closed the Boston Port
took away Mass. self-gov rights
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English general Burgoyne
American General Gates
American victory
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Corwallis seizes Yorktown
Washington marches on Yorktown and defeats British Army -
Officially ended the Rev. War
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Congress bans the importation of slaves after jan 1, 1808
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First Dec. of War by Pres. James Monroe
War with Britain
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The Missouri Compromise is negotiated allowing Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in 1821. This act will maintain a balance between free and slave states. The compromise establishes the 36 degree, 30' parallel of latitude as a dividing line between free and slave areas of the territories.
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President James Monroe
The Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization
The political system of the Americas was different from Europe
The United States would regard any interference in Western hemispheric affairs as a threat to its security
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Supports industry in N, not agriculture in the S
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William lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of the liberator
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The Nat Turner Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by a slave. Over 60 whites were killed in the uprising.
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The measures included California joining the Union as a free state, the territories of New Mexico and Utah are organized with no restrictions on slavery, slave trading is abolished in the District of Columbia effective January 1851 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 is modified and strengthened to allow slaveholders to retrieve slaves in northern states and free territories.
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harriet beecher Stowe writes uncle tom's cabin
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act passes Congress and thus overturns the Missouri Compromise opening the Northern territory to slavery. Popular sovereignty-Both sides begin to send settlers into the areas in an effort to influence the future status of these areas.
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Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner delivers a speech attacking slavery supporters in the Senate. He singles out Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina in his speech. Two days later, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, Butler's nephew, attacks Sumner on the Senate floor and beats him with a cane. The House did not expel or censure Brooks for the attack, Sumner took three years to recover.
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The Supreme Court rules in Scott v. Sandford that blacks are not U.S. citizens, and slaveholders have the right to take existing slaves into free areas of the county.
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John brown, abolitionist
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This leads other Southern states to secede in the following months.
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Fort Sumter fired upon by Confederate soldiers. General Anderson surrenders the next day.
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Confederate victory
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In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation
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Confederate Army Led by Robert E lee
Pickett's charge
union victory(Meade)
turning point in the war
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Union general march to the sea
William T. Sherman left Tennessee with 100,000 troops. He marched to Atlanta, Georgia. He ten marched from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean. During this 300 mile march Sherman's soldiers burned and destroyed everything in a width of 60 miles. -
Lee surrenders to Gran at Appomatax courthouse
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Former confederate states agreed for hayes to be president in turn Reconstruction ended
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over 5.3 million italians immigrated
swedes-norwegians
danes
polish-largest group of E. European immigrants -
Four-month long
brought on by Spanish brutality towards its colony, Cuba
america traded more with cuba
imperial expansionist
USS Maine explodes -
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Black Thursday
Led to a 12 year depression in he US -
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Prompted by a US embargo on essential supplies for war
The day after the attack the US declared war on Japan
US Battleships Arizona and Oklahoma sank taking thousands of ment with them -
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People of japanese descent removed from their homoes and placed in internment camps
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Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy in "Operation Overlord"
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Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat
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Little Rock High School
Desegregation of school makes Gov. of arkansas ordered US National Guard troops to stop the entry of 9 African American students into the school -
During the Cold War
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First black man on the supreme court
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