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Formed by the Virginia Company of London. 1st permanent settlement in North America
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First legislative assembly of educated representative. Was established by the virginia company
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year, a Dutch ship carrying African slaves docked at Point Comfort, which served as Jamestown's checkpoint for ships wanting to trade with the colonists.
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This is the document where the agreed to obey laws created for the general good.
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Colonist & British soldiers in Boston competed over jobs 5 colonists died
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England Put restrictions on tea. Colonists threw tea in the boston harbour
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The final Colonial War. The French and Indian War, as it was referred to in the colonies, was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. England and France had been building toward a conflict in America since 1689
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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
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england prohibited colonists from setting west of the apps. because it costs a lot to protect colonists from INdian attact
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colonist resist the stamp act
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Issued by the contential congress
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Meeting of all representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia
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British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile.. Minutemen assempled. Fighting assembled
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Created a Continental Army
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The 13 newly independent stated united into one country
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Debt ridden farmers in Mass. rebel due to high taxes
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called to settle disputes among states over commerce
only 5 states showed up -
Leader George Washington and James Madison
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2 house congress
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slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determing a states representation in House of Reps.
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set up the court system
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Provided the process for the creations and admission of new states
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Time period during which the U.S. was under the articles of confederation
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1st 10 admenments
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He was the 1st President
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Defeated thomas jefferson
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established a plan for surveyinh the western lands
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Marshall declared a was
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jefferson brought this land from france
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British interference with american shipping
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Marshall upheld the federal govts right to establush banks
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Court overturned a sreamboat monopoly
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warned europe against future colonization in the americar
inference in any independent country in the western hemisphere -
INventor Eli Whitner
Made Cotton growing very profitable -
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Was a book writte in the 1850s
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was shot on Good Friday
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a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.
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profound divisions existed among Americans over the future course of their country, and especially over the South's "peculiar institution," slavery. During the presidency of James K. Polk (1841-1849), the United States had confirmed the annexation of Texas to the Union, negotiated a treaty with Great Britain for the Oregon territory up to the 49th parallel, and, as a result of the Mexican War, added California and New Mexico as well
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Charleston South Carolina. STarted the American Civil War
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23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat
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ssued by President Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War
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abolished slavery
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organized the south into 5 military districts, and the states had to have a military leader from the north (Marshall law).
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citizenship rights and equal protection of the law
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speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln,
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right to vote
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Samuel J. Tilden v Rutherford B. Hayes
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The Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880
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he Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act followed revisions made in 1880 to the US-China Burlingame Treaty of 1868, revisions that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration.
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American Federation of Labor (AFL) was the first federation of labor unions in the United States
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The Dawes Act of 1887 adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
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The American Railway Union was the largest labor union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
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he Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute on United States competition law passed by Congress in 1890
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last battle of the civil war
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he Homestead strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894.
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Came from western Europe
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conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States
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was an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico,
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Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. In contrast with British imperial policy, the French taught their subjects that, by adopting French language and culture, they could eventually become French. The famous 'Four Communes' in Senegal were seen as proof of this. Here Africans were, in theory, afforded all the rights of French citizens
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violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China between 1899 and 1901.
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Haymarket Square in Boston is an open-air fruit and vegetable market near the North End, Government Center, West End and Faneuil Hall Marketplace
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Platt Amendment stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War
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a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census
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in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918
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World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918
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representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
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On this day in 1941, over 3 million German troops invade Russia in three parallel offensives, in what is the most powerful invasion force in history. Nineteen panzer divisions, 3,000 tanks, 2,500 aircraft, and 7,000 artillery pieces pour across a thousand-mile front as Hitler goes to war on a second front.
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dreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress
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Fred Korematsu refused to obey the wartime order to leave his home and report to a relocation camp for Japanese Americans. He was arrested and convicted. After losing in the Court of Appeals, he appealed to the United States Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the deportation order.
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wou
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was a major German offensive campaign
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Victory in Europe Day
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series of military tribunals,
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1969-1974
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racial segregation laws
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Watergate has entered the political lexicon as a term synonymous with corruption and scandal, yet the Watergate Hotel is one of Washington’s plushest hotels. Even today, it is home to former Senator Bob Dole and was once the place where Monica Lewinsky laid low. It was here that the Watergate Burglars broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee offices on June 17, 1972. If it had not been for the alert actions of Frank Wills, a security guard, the scandal may never have erupted
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Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides.
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North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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Richard M. Nixon declared in 1969 that he would continue the American involvement in the Vietnam war in order to end the conflict and secure "peace with honor" for the United States and for its ally, South Vietnam
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Treat of 1977 The treaty, signed by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos, contained two parts; one promised an end to U.S. control of the canal beginning in 2000; Panama was to take over operation and defense of the canal. The neutrality component of the treaty gave the U.S. permanent authority to defend the canal if it were placed under threat as a neutral water passage.
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Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
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Camp David Accord
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The State Department said on Wednesday that it is troubled by reports that Iran has picked as its ambassador to the United Nations a man who is believed to have participated in the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
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republican
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Tear down this wall
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meeting between U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbache
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The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
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der the reservation system, American Indians kept their citizenship in their sovereign tribes, but life was harder than it had been
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The Progressive Movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century
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The Open Door Policy is a concept in foreign affairs, initially used to refer to the United States policy in late 19th century and early 20th century that would grant multiple international powers with equal access to China, with none of them in total control of that country
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sustained state of political and military tension
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex
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President nixon won
