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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War
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The British government did not want American colonists crossing the Appalachian Mountains and creating tension with the French and Native Americans there
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A direct tax imposed by the British government on all printed materials in the American colonies.
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A law that stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
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A British policy that enabled the Dutch East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in the colonies, complicating the colonists’ ability to by cheaper tea elsewhere.
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A direct response to British taxation policies and the Tea Act in which the colonists expressed their opposition by throwing 342 crates of British tea into the Boston Harbor.
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an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule
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Served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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Is the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory
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chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory
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Was the meeting that decided the best solution to the young country's problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.
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to approve or enact a legally binding act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval
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was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, beginning to remove all American Indians living in existing states and territories and send them to unsettled land in the west
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was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip.
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a failed attempt to diffuse a tense political situation between free and slave states that had emerged after the Mexican-American War
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Organized two new territories in the land acquired through the Louisiana Purchase, Kansas and Nebraska. The act established that in these territories, the principle of popular sovereignty would apply, meaning that the white residents of each territory would vote on whether to permit slavery when applying for statehood
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In this ruling, the U.S Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United State, and therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government of the court
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Abraham Lincoln (Republican) won the presidential election of 1860 in a four-way contest. Although Lincoln received less than 40% of the popular vote, he easily won the Electoral College vote over Stephen Douglas (Democrat), John Breckenridge (Southern Democrat), and John Bell (Constitutional Union)
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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 in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.