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Magna Carta
A document signed by the King John to prevent abuse of power -
Period: Jan 16, 1300 to
Renaissance
The 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history. -
Jan 1, 1440
Middle Passage
the trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of slave trade -
Period: Oct 31, 1450 to May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer who started the colonization of the New World -
Period: Jan 1, 1474 to Jan 16, 1521
Juan Ponce de Leon
A Spanish explorer and conquistador who set sail to Florida for the mythical Fountain of Youth. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 3, 1543
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
a Portuguese explorer who explore the west coast of North America for the Spanish Empire -
Period: Jan 1, 1510 to Sep 22, 1554
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
a Spanish conquistador and explorer -
Spanish Armanda
a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that was to invade England -
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British Colonial Era
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Jamestown, VA
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas -
House of Burgesses
The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America -
Mayflower Compact
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. -
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Navigation Acts
a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies -
Two Treatises of Government
a work of philosophy published by John Locke -
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Indentured Servants
A labor system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years -
Carolina
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Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States -
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James Madison
The fourth President of the United States -
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The French and Indian War
A war fought between the colonies of British America and New France -
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Alexander Hamiltion
a founding father of the United States -
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The Revolutionary Era
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Treaty of Paris, 1763
A document that ended the seven years war -
Proclamation of 1763
It forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn on the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America -
Boston Massacre
An incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Battle of Lexington
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Thomas Paine (Common Sense)
A pamphlet that inspired people to fight for independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
A document that declared the thirteen colonies' independence -
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Battle of Saratoga
A battle giving victory to the Americans in the American Revolutionary War -
Articles of Confederation
A document that establish the United States of America as a confederation -
Battle of Yorktown
the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War -
Treaty of Paris 1783
A treaty ending the American Revolutionary War -
Temperance Movement
a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol in the United States -
The Great Compromise
A document that defined the US as bicameral -
The Constitution
The supreme law of the United States of America -
Pennsylvania
Entry into the Union -
New Jersey
Entry into the Union -
Georgia
Entry into the Union -
Connecticut
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Massachussetts
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Maryland
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New Hampshire
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New York
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Bill of Rights
The collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution -
The Second Great Awakening
a protestant revival movement -
Rhode Island
Entry into the Union -
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Whiskey Rebellion
a tax protest on the tax imposed on whiskey -
Cotton Gin
A machine invented by Eli Whitney that strung up cotton -
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping -
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Manifest Destiny
the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent -
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Nat Turner
an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves -
Louisiana Purchase
The sale of a giant chunk of land in the middle of North America -
Lewis & Clark Expidition
the first American expedition to cross to the Pacific Ocean and exlore the Louisiana Purchase -
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William Lloyd Garrison
a prominent American abolitionist -
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Rober E. Lee
Comander of the confederate army -
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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America -
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Stephen Douglas
the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act -
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Developing a National Identity
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Erie Canal
a canal that ran through New York -
The Second Bank of the United States
a bank that handled all transactions for the U.S. Government -
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Frederick Douglass
an African-American social reformer -
McCulloch v. Maryland
a decision made by the Supreme Court -
missouri compromise
prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory -
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Industrial Revolution
the transition to new manufacturing processes -
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Susan B. Anthony
an American social reformer -
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Harriet Tubman
an African-American abolitionist -
Monroe Doctrine
a US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries -
Transcendentalism
a protest against the general state of spirituality -
Samuel Morse
Invents the Telegraph -
Trail of Tears
a series of forced relocations of Native Americans -
Indian Removal Act
The law removed Indian tribes from territories east of the Mississippi River -
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George Pullman
designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car -
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Andrew Carnegie
led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry -
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John D. Rockefeller
a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry -
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Mexican-American War
The territorial war of texas -
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Thomas Edison
Invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the light bulb -
Siege of Veracruz
a 20-day siege of the key Mexican beachhead seaport of Veracruz, during the Mexican-American War -
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Joseph Pulitzer
He introduced the techniques of new journalism to newspapers. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
the document that ended the mexican-american war -
Seneca Falls Convention
The first womans rights convention -
Compromise of 1850
a package of bills that settled a political confrontation betwen slave states and free states -
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The Union in Crisis
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The Know Nothings
the anti-immigration party -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska -
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Booker T. Washington
the leading voice of the former slaves -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas over who should be president -
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Wilhelm II
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Industrailism and Progressivism
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John J. Pershing
the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I -
Election of 1860
the 19th presidential election in which President Abraham Lincoln won -
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Confederate States of America
A secessionist state from the lower south of America -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The major battle of the civil war -
Battle of Bull Run
The first major battle of the civil war -
Homestead Act
gave an applicant ownership of land -
Battle of Shiloh
a major battle of the civil war -
Battle of Antietam
A major battle of the civil war -
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Billy Sunday
became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century -
Emancipation Proclamation
a proclamation by Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves -
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William Randolph Hearst
He built the nation's largerst newspaper chain and whose methods influenced American journalism. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The turning point in the Civil War -
The Thirteenth Amendment
an amendment that abolished slavery -
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Reconstruction
The reconstruction of this nation after the civil war -
Lincoln's Assassination
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -
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Dorothea Lange
an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography -
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W.E.B. Du Bois
an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor -
Fourteenth ammendment
one of the reconstruction ammendments that gave equal rights to former slaves -
The Fithteenth Ammendment
it protected the right to vote for everybody -
Battle of Little Big Horn
a battle in the great sioux war -
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Francisco Villa
one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals -
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Frances Perkins
the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet -
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John Maynard Keynes
a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics and informed the economic policies of governments -
Dawes Act
an act that allowed to survey Native American land -
Bayonet Constitution
a document to strip the Hawaiin monarchy of much of its authority -
open door policy
a policy that kept China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
an American women's rights organization -
Wounded Knee Massacre
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age -
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Amelia Earhart
an American aviation pioneer and author and the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean -
Spanish–American War
a conflict between Spain and the United States because of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence -
Rough Riders
one of three such regiments raised for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action -
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
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Boxer Rebellion
an anti-imperialist uprising motivated by pro-nationlist views -
Explosion of the Maine
Sunk by spaniards in Havana Harbor which caused the Spanish American War -
Foraker Act
US federal law that established civilian government on Puerto Rico -
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Unit 1
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Platt Amendment
A bill that was passed that stated the conditions of the withdrawl of U.S. troops in Cuba. -
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Louis Armstrong
an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and an influential figure in jazz music -
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Langston Hughes
an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist -
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Charles Lindbergh
an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist -
Philippine Annexation
Was annexed by the United States. Annexation was contreversial among americans. -
Roosevelt Corollary
an addition to the Monroe Doctrine which allowed US intervention between European contries and Latin American countries -
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Russo-Japanese War
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NAACP
an African-American civil rights organization -
Great Migration
the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970 -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of Manhattan -
Federal Reserve System
the central banking system of the United States -
Tampio Incident
began as a minor incident involving U.S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to General Victoriano Huerta during the guerra de las facciones phase of the Mexican Revolution -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins -
World War I
a global war centred in Europe -
Germany Invasion of Belgium
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Panama Canal
a canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean -
Siniking of Lusitania
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Sussex Pledge
a German promise of unrestricted submarine warfare -
Zimmerman Note
a proposal for Mexico to join an alliance with Germany in an event of the US entering WWI against Germany -
Fourteen Points
a statement declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe -
National War Labor Board
a federal agency to compromise disputes between workers and employers in order to ensure labor productivity during the war -
The Eighteenth Amendment
It effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol -
Treaty of Versailles
one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I -
Palmer Raids
a series of raids intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists -
Harlem Renaissance
a movement that spanned the 1920s -
League of Nations
founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War One -
Teapot Dome scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Stock Market Crash
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Scopes Trial
an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Kellogg–Briand Pact
a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them" -
Black Tuesday
the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels -
Hoover Dam
a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada -
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The New Deal
in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform -
The Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
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The Great Depression
a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II -
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The Second New Deal
the second stage of the New Deal programs -
Social Security Act
a social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States -
Fair Labor Standards Act
a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute. -
Prohibition
Prohibition focused on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages