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105 Cards in this Set
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First permanent English settlement
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Jamestown
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Mayflower Compact
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1620
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Thomas Jefferson
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wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Constitution of the United States
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1787
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Louisiana Territory
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purchased by Thomas Jefferson in 1803
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tariff
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tax placed on goods brought into a country
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civil disobedience
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refusal to obey governmental law
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first representative government in the new world
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House of Burgesses
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Fundamental orders of Connecticut
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first written constitution in the colonies
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Thomas Hooker |
founded Connecticut |
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Roger Williams
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William Penn |
founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers |
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John Locke |
believed that people had natural rights of life, liberty, and protection of property |
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The Enlightenment |
spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society |
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First Great Awakening
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religious movement proclaiming salvation for all |
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Treaty of Paris 1763
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Ended French and Indian War |
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Mercantilism
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economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of wealth it has |
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Proclamation of 1763
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closed the land west of the Appalachians to settlers |
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The Sugar Act |
tax placed on foreign sugar |
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The Stamp Act
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tax on printed material |
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The Townshend Acts
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tax on imported items such as glass, lead, silk, tea, and paper |
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The Tea Act
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resulted in the Boston Tea Party |
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The Coercive Acts
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British reaction to the Boston Tea Party |
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Tyranny
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cruel and unjust government |
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Unalienable rights
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cannot be given up, taken away, or transferred
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Lexington
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First shots of the American Revolution |
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Concord
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first real battle of the American Revolution |
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turning point of the American Revolution |
Saratoga |
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last battle of the American Revolution |
Yorktown |
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Treaty of Paris 1783
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ended the American Revolution |
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Articles of Confederation
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First American Constitution |
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first document that limited power of the ruler
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Magna Carta |
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English Bill of Rights
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protected the rights of English citizens |
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The Great Compromise
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plans for government creating two houses of Congress
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means two houses
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bicameral |
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Three-fifths Compromise
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counted slaves for the purposes of both representation and taxation |
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approve by vote
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ratify |
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supported strong central government |
Federalists |
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AntiFederalists |
preferred more power given to the states |
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written by James Madison
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The Federalists papers |
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The Bill of Rights |
first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution |
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states "Congress shall make no law" restricting freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition
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First Amendment |
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Second Amendment |
Right to bear arms |
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forbids government to order private citizens to allow soldiers to live in their homes |
Third Amendment |
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requires warrants be issued if property is to be searched or seized
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Fourth Amendment |
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Fifth Amendment
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due process |
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Sixth Amendment
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right to speedy and public trial |
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right to a trial by jury
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Seventh Amendment |
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prohibits cruel and unusual punishment
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Eighth Amendment |
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Ninth Amendment
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people have rights other than those specifically mentioned in the Constitution
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Tenth Amendment
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powers not given to the Federal government belong to the states |
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government for and by the people
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democracy |
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Republic
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nation which voters choose representatives |
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Separation of Powers
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each branch has its own powers |
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Checks and balances
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each branch has the power to control the others |
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to change
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amend |
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George Washington |
"entangling alliances" |
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Nullification |
state declaring federal law illegal |
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The War of 1812
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between Britain and U.S. over impressment of soldiers |
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Treaty of Ghent
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ended war of 1812 |
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Marbury vs. Madison |
Gave the Supreme Court right to determine whether a law violates the Constitution |
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Andrew Jackson |
responsible for the Trail of Tears |
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belief United States should own all the land from the Pacific to the Atlantic
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Manifest Destiny |
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ended the Mexican War |
Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo |
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Gadsden Purchase
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bought for the building of the railroad |
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Industrial Revolution
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change from household industries to factory production |
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Free Enterprise |
freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation |
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Capitalism
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economic system based on private property
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Robert Fulton
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steamboat |
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Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney |
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Bessemer steel process
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first inexpensive industrial process for mass steel production |
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Erie Canal
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linked New York with the west |
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campaign against drinking or selling alcohol
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The Temperance Movement |
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Frederick Douglas
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best know black abolitionist |
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conductor of the Underground Railroad |
Harriet Tubman |
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Susan B. Anthony |
created the women's rights movement |
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strong sense of loyalty to a state or section |
sectionalism |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford |
said slaves were property not citizens |
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First shots of the Civil War |
Fort Sumter |
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Turning point of the Civil War
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Battle of Gettysburg |
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Appomattox Court House
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where the Civil War ended
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Antietam |
bloodiest battle of the Civil War |
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President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
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Jefferson Davis |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
General of the Union Army |
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Robert E. Lee |
General of the Confederate Army |
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16th president of the United States
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Abraham Lincoln |
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13th Amendment
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abolished slavery |
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rights to all people born or naturalized
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14th amendment |
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15th amendment |
right to vote |
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suffrage |
the right to vote |
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The First Continental Congress convened during this Era
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Revolutionary |
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Great Compromise
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Virginia Plan/New Jersey Plan |
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Large debts from American Revolution
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problem with Washington's presidency |
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geographical influence
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Northwest Ordinance
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resolution to conflict over westward expansion
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The Puritans, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson |
establishment of religious freedom |
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John Paul Jones
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commanded a victory at sea over the British Army |
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Alexander Hamilton
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believed in a strong national government with adequate state powers |
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Continental Army advantage
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knowledge of the terrain |
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overriding of Presidential veto
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congress with 2/3 majority vote |
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U.S. Constitution as an evolving document
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allows for processes for change |
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Southern economy
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rich dark soil and long growing season |
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rocky soil. short growing season
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Northern economy |
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Bernado De Galvez, James Armistead, Wentworth Cheswell, and Haym Solomon |
patriots of the Revolutionary war |
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