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first permanent English colony in 1607
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serve as a representative assembly for the settlers
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Pilgrims signed; created a model for the rule of law and democratic government in the colonies
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Puritans led by John Winthrop : founded Boston as they colony
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freedom of religion, separation of church state "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"
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tobacco plantations in the rich lands
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Catholics led Lord Baltimore
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English citizens were confirmed in Bills Of Rights; guaranteed trail by jury, freedom of speech, press, petition, and assembly
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philanthropist named James Oglethorpe; poor and homeless
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American colonists were furious when Britain declared that there could be no American settlements west of Appalachians Mountains
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taxes were levied on colonial American paper money to be in valid
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taxes were levied on all materials printed in the colonies
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colonists were required to house and supply British goods
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more taxes levied on colonial imports
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British troops fired on a crowd of protesters
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British East Indian Company was given control of the American Tea Trade
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colonists attacked several East India Company ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed 342 chest of tea
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regain control over the situation; British Government passed new measures
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Challenged the authority of the British government over the Thirteen Colonies
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American minuteman with British troops sent to arrest colonial leaders and seize colonial stores of weapons and ammunition north of Boston
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Created a new nation that would be based on the principles of freedom and democracy
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Smith, a Scottish moral philosopher by trade, wrote the book to describe the industrialized capitalist system that was upending the mercantilist system
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sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments.
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organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States.
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uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786.
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eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in the late 1780s to persuade the voters of New York to adopt the Constitution
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established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens
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two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. Members of the House of Representatives would be allocated according to each state's population and elected by the people
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agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787)
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the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
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when revolutionaries stormed a prison called the Bastille
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69 of the 69 first-round votes cast in the United States Electoral College. With this election, he became the only U.S. president to be unanimously chosen.
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his group of advisers who reported in private and solely to the U.S. chief executive officer.
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American Congress declares that a swampy, humid, muddy and mosquito-infested site on the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia will be the nation's permanent capital
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It could lend the government money and pay off state debts.
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was a 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government
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George Washington advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties
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The Federalists, led by Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, wanted a strong central government; the Anti-Federalists, led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, advocated states' rights instead of centralized power
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a remarkable political philosopher
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a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited,
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a series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent
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authored by Jefferson, went further than Madison's Virginia Resolution and asserted that states had the power to nullify unconstitutional federal laws
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the United States is destined by God, its advocates believed to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent
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Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party.
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was a land deal between the United States and France
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a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States
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James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively
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recruitment by force; It was a practice that directly affected the U.S. and was even one of the causes of the War of 1812.
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the British impressed more than 15,000 U.S. sailors to supplement their fleet during their Napoleonic Wars with France
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The War Hawks were members of Congress who put pressure on President James Madison to declare war against Britain in 1812
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On June 18, 1812, President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the beginning of the War of 1812.
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The poem, originally titled “The Defence of Fort M'Henry,” was written after Key witnessed the Maryland fort being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812.
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reforming U.S. policy on acquiring public lands;
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a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.
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an ambitious agenda with four major goals: cut tariffs, reestablish an independent U.S. Treasury, secure the Oregon Territory and acquire the territories of California and New Mexico from Mexico
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annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state
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The Oregon Treaty was signed between the US and Britain to settle the boundary dispute.
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Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande.
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designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War
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ended the war between the United States and Mexico
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was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party.
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the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S.
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rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter's Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852
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It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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was part of the Compromise of 1850; required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
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she used it to escape slavery herself
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injustices of slavery, pushing back against dominant cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people
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an agreement between the United States and Mexico
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was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders
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Kansans engaged in a violent guerrilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces; which significantly shaped American politics and contributed to the coming of the Civil War
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he return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels
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was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union
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the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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was a decisive Union victory during the American Civil War
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short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America
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abolished slavery in the United States
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during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy
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ranted citizenship to all persons
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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provided numerous services for the poor,
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an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government. -
a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis,
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a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America
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extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power -
was a conflict between the United States and Spain that effectively ended Spain's role as a colonial power in the New World. -
a statement of principles initiated by the United States -
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interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency
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a self-starting vehicle with a left-sided steering wheel,
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removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( -
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was part of what became known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the last battle of World War I . -
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the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. -
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was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted -
Americans grew afraid of a Communist takeover, caused by the Russian Revolution. Radicals and foreigners were targeted. Federal Bureau of Investigation. -
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shocked Americans by revealing an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government. -
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