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Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the New World. Tobacco was their main cash crop.
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Document where the Puritans agreed to obey the laws created for the general good. Created a Covenant Community.
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1st elected assembley in the new world. It sill operates today as the General Assembly.
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in earlier years plantations had indentured servants, but son transitioned into African slaves.
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Fought by the French and Indians verses the English colonist over land west of the Appalchains mountains.
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Parliement bans colonist from moving west of appaliachains.Colonist angered
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England won over the French and got land west of Appalachains and Canada
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Parliemnet put taxes on all legal documents.
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Colonist and Britsh soldiers competed over jobs . one evening a mob of anti-British demostrators formed.British fire shoots. 5 are dead.
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After England put taxes on tea colonist dresse up as Indains and dump the tea in Boston Harbor.
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Meeting of reps from all 13 colonies except Georgia. Held in Philadelphia. Issued a statement of Colonial rights.
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Issued by the continental congress. Written by Thomas Jefferson.
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Created the Continental Army. George Washington was general. Issued the Olive Branch Petition.
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British troops attacked coloial weapons stockpile. Minutemen assembled.
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A government with a weak national governement and strong states. Congress had no power over tax or trade. the was no common currency.
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battlefield were America got there independence.
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England acknowledged American independence.
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establish a plan for surveying the western lands.
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called to settle disputes among states over commerce.
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debt ridden farmers in Massachusetts. rebeled due to high taxes.
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to address problems in governing the united states.
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providied the proces for the creation and admission of new states.
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set up cornt system
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Time period during which the US was under the Articles of confederation.
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slaves were three fifths of a person
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came up with a bicameral legislative
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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created executive departments: state, Treasury, War
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Jefferson bought this land from France.
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establish the power of judicial review
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British interference with American shipping
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a state the bank due to national supremacy.
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women suffurage activist
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confirmed the fedral goverenment has power over congress.
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warned Europe against future colonization in the Americas
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made by Eli whitney.made cotton growing very proftable
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divided LA purchase at 36,30. North of line :free. South of line: slave
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Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portrayed the evils of slavery.
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a slave sued for freedom after being taken to free territory by his owner.
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Abraham Lincoln won. Main issue was slavery
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Lincoln issued the Emanccipation Proclamation.
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In South Carolina. First battle of the civil war
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freed slaves in the rebelling states.
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3 day battle. Lee had to retreat.
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Union General Sherman marched across GA and up the coast.
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Short speech by Lincoln.
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killed by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the war
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Restoring Southern States to the Union.
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abolished slavery
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equal right for African Americans
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Allowed African American males to vote
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Hayes v. Tilden
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Put South under Military occupation.
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separate facilites for white snd black people
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separate but equal.
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reforms to fix problems caused by industriailzation
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Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state
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women gain the right to vote
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president during the great drepression.
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The time of severe economic hardships in the U.S from 1929-1941
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The day the stock market crahsed.
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New Union
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President that ran against Hoover and won.
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FDR promised this to the people if he was elected. would help pull them out the depression.
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Protectsed worker rights to form unions.
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horrible drought in Texas Oklahoma and kansas
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Insures bank deposits.
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provides safe gaurds for workers (disability and unemploymeny compensation) and old-age pension
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Germany invades Poland to kick off WWII
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stalin and hitler agree not to attack each oher
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The war begins because Germany invades Poland.
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Germany turns on Russia after signing the non aggresion pact
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Japan bombs pearl harbor Dec 7, 1947 getting America in WWII
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german counter offensive
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Allies landed in German -occupied france
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uneasy peace after WWII between U.S and Soviet Union
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defensive alliance among U.S and western European countries
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Post was trials of Nazis for war crimes n the holocaust
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Allies over ran Germany
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FDR request to declare war on japan
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America flew food to West germany
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North- communist
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U.S gives poor countries money to prevent them from going to communism
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United states president
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president of the USA
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War between North and South Vietnam. US join the fight to help the non-communist south.
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North Vietnam invades South Vietnam and becomes communist
