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songhai controlled trade across the sahara desert. songhai rulers became famous for their wealth,
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refoem of the Roman Catholic church produced the Reformation, which resulted in the formation of Protestant churches.
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believed English churches needed reforming
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African Americans were brought to the New wolrd to work as slaves from the 1500s to the 1800s.
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disease spread quickly: smallpox
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these colonies prospered, and Britian gained wealth from trade with these colonies.
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faced paying off the debt Britian had accumulated during the french Indian war.
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Some British soldiers fired on a mob and killed several colonists, prompting angry colonial leaders to call the event the Boston Massacre.
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Congress adopted the Declaration on Independence, declaring the colonies independent.
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religious revival movment during the early 1900's
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Americans experienced a rise in religious sentiment known as the Second Great Awakening.
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Tariff on important goods helped American industries grow. Southern leaders opposed tariffs. taxes on important goods passed by congress in 1832
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Senator Stephen Douglas proposed a bill that would allow the people in Nebraska and Kansas territories if they wanted slavery or not. Congress eventually approved the bill and the Kansas-Nebraska Act became a law.
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a period of rebuilding the nation and readmitting southern states to the nation
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helped former slaves. Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which gauranteed the civil rights of African Americans.
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Secret group terrorized and killed blacks across the South.
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Thomas Alva Edison established a research laboratory in 1876 in order to develop new inventions.
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railroads made lives easier. porting goods was alot easier.
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it outlawed trusts, but the law was difficult to enforce.
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studying the success of busniess leaders like Carnegie helped spur an intellectual movement called Social Darwinism
