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War between the French and the British that was fought over land in North America (the British won)
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A boundary line establish by the British government to prevent American colonists from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
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A direct tax imposed by the British government on all printed materials in the American colonies. The colonists responded buy organizing the Stamp Act Congress, which argued the tax was wrong because colonists had no say in its passage. The Congress issued petitions calling for the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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A law that stated that the British Parliaments 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, complications 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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A document that announced the separation of the 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
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A document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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A treaty that was signed by U.S. and British Representatives that ended the War of the American Revolution. The agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.
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A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and decided that 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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Established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process foe admitting a new state to the Union and guaranteed that newly created stats would be equal to the original thirteen states
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The founders set the terms for ratifying the Constitution. They bypassed the state legislatures, reasoning that their members would be reluctant to give up power to a national government. Instead, they called for special ratifying conventions in each state. Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government.
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In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.
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Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, beginning the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans in what became known as the Trail of Tears.
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The Mexican-American War marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of the U.S.
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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
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In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.
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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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The American Civil War 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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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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It forbids chattel slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment.