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"No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned,...or in any other way destroyed...except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice." A document that we used and compared with the Bill of Rights
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First permanent settlement in North America
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A document that declared the 13 colonies independent
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First written constitution or plan for the government.... Failed!
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Formally ended the American Revolution... America is now independent!
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A document written at the Philadelphia Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation, includes the Bill of Rights
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The cotton gin separated seeds from cotton and it increased the demand of slaves.
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Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory for $15 Million to the U.S.
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First Shots Fired.... Begins The Civil War!
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Northerners had picnics and watched the battle... bad idea... Confederate Victory!
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Another Confederate Victory!
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Bloodiest Day of the Civil War
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Abrham Lincoln freed the slaves in all the rebeling states, NOT the border states.
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Union victory... Union gains the Mississippi River.
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Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War, Turning point of the Civil War, Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
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General Lee surrenders to General Grant ending the civil war. Union won the war!
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John Wilkes Booth (Confederate) shot Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theatre. 5 days after Appomattox Courthouse
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Last battle of the civil war... Confederate victory! 34 days after Appomattox Courthouse
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Ended Slavery
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Gave equal rights to african americans
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Gave suffrage to african american men
