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he first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England. -
moved from rule of man to rule of law
outlined individual rights which king could not violate -
monarchs to obtain parliamentary approval before new taxes
gov could not unlawfully imprison people -
free speech and protection from punishment
Glorious revolution -
To protest British Parliament's tax on tea. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. -
The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain. -
the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America. -
George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. -
limited access to U.S. citizenship to white immigrants—in effect, to people from Western Europe—who had resided in the U.S. at least two years and their children under 21 years of age. It also granted citizenship to children born abroad to U.S. citizens. -
farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis. -
Congress established the First Bank of the United States, headquartered in Philadelphia, in 1791, at the urging of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. -
prohibits federal courts from hearing cases in which a state is sued by an individual from another state or another country. -
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
Established the principle of judicial review. -
each elector must cast distinct votes for president and vice president, instead of two votes for president. -
Civil War was a turning point in the war, which precipitated the capture of the Mississippi River. Having fought past Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the Union was unopposed in its capture of the city itself. -
Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures. -
An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. -
the United States would not intervene in European affairs, but likewise it would not tolerate further European colonization in the Americas or European interference in the governments of the American hemisphere. -
What was the Mexican-American War most known for?
In the fighting that followed, the mostly-volunteer United States military secured control of Mexico after a series of battles, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on. It was the first large-scale success of a United States military force on foreign soil. -
provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. -
abolished slavery in the United States. -
The day president Lincoln was killed. -
granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” -
granted African American men the right to vote. -
The day President James Garfield was killed -
the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
the day president William McKinley was killed -
grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population. -
modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
America joins the conflict of war because Germany sank many American merchant ships -
prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors". -
granted women the right to vote -
It changed the original calendar dates for the president and vice president's terms from March 4 to January 20. -
the long period of speculation that preceded it, during which millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels. -
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. -
grants the States virtually complete control over whether to permit importation or sale of liquor and how to structure the liquor distribution system. -
Japanese carrier planes attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor knocking out over 200 planes and sinking or damaging eight battleships. The following day, Congress declared war on Imperial Japan. -
The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima becoming the only country to ever use nuclear weapons. -
Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. -
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prevents a president from serving more than two terms or more than ten years -
granted citizens living in Washington D.C., the nation's capital, the right to vote in presidential elections. -
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister[2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
The day president John F. Kennedy was killed -
prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election. -
a nationwide movement for equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation and exclusion -
It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office through impeachment, and establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled. -
The day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed -
U.S became the first country to put a man on the moon. -
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. -
rivalry between U.S and soviet union -
any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may only take effect after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred. -
terrorists flying planes into the US twin towers -
ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. -
Long battle with the titian Thanos who has all infinity stones. Battle ends with Thanos snapping away a half of the human population in the universe. The event has been named the blip. -
The Shibuya Incident resulted in the release of at least ten million cursed spirits. All twenty-three wards of Tokyo were compromised and civilians were forced to evacuate. -
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Efforts to return the blipped victims commence with the avengers (Bruce Banner) returning all previously blipped victims with a time travel heist. Another war with a time traveling Thanos ensues however this time the avengers win with tony stark using his life to save the world. -
ITS HERE ITS FINALLY HERE -
the city has been revitalized by the invention and introduction of Androids into everyday life. But when Androids start behaving as if they are alive, events begin to spin out of control. -
Night City Changes Everybody. -
Leader of the spider team that protects the spiderverse. -
210 years after the Great War, a war between the United States and China over natural resources that ended in a nuclear holocaust in 2077. -
a series of conflicts waged between the IMC and Frontier settlers around fifteen years before the Battle of Demeter. -
a highly popular, televised blood sport that is owned by the mysterious Mercenary Syndicate and managed by their Apex Games Commission headed by Kuben Blisk.