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Magna Carta
Document signed by John Smith; limits the power of the king -
Jamestown founded
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Mayflower
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Massachusetts bay
wanted to purify the Anglican church -
John Locke
an English philosopher and physician -
King's Philip's War
Last major effort by Native Americans of Southern New England to expel the British -
Bacon's Rebellion
Led the colonist in a rebellion against the Virginia gov't -
English Bill of Rights
Creates rights for English citizens -
James Otis
was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against British policy that led to the American Revolution -
Great awakening
encouraged individualism- individual relationship with God -
George Washington
was the first President of the United States -
John Dickinson
a Founding Father of the United States, was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington -
John Adams
was the second President of the United States -
Thomas Jefferson
was the third President of the United States -
James Madison
was the fourth President of the United States -
James Monroe
was the fifth President of the United States -
Industrial Revolution
was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840 -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Confederacy of Native Americans under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacked British forces at Detroit in May 1763 trying to remove them from French lands -
French and Indian War
was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War -
American Revolution
was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy -
Sons of Liberty
Radical group in Boston that fought for fair rights for colonists -
Andrew Jackson
was the seventh President of the United States -
John Quincy Adams
was the sixth President of the United States -
Regulator movement
Farmers in western NC resented the assessment of taxes and fees and the favoritism of the tidewater region -
William Hnery Harrison
was the ninth President of the United States -
Lexington and Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Bunker Hill
was a batlle fought during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War -
Common Sense
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain -
Battle of Trenton
was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War -
Henry Clay
was an American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives -
Saratoga
marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War -
Articles of Confederation
Representation by population or equal -
Yorktown
the Surrender at Yorktown by General Charles Cornwallis -
Martin Van Buren
was the eighth President of the United States -
Treaty of Paris
Ended Revolutionary War, land was acquried from the British -
Zachary Taylor
was the twelfth President of the United States -
Great Compromise
Created a bi-cameral legislation -
Constitutional Covention
Plan was to revise the Articles but that was impossible -
Connecticut Compromise
Mapped out how many representatives would be in each House of Congress -
Constitution
Restored power back to the Federal government, but also provided rights for citizens with the Bill of Rights -
John Tyler
was the tenth President of the United States -
James Buchanan
was the fifteenth President of the United States -
Whiskey Rebellion
was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington -
Cotton Gin
is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber -
James K. Polk
was the eleventh President of the United States -
Millard Fillmore
was the thirteenth President of the United States -
Louisiana Purchase
We bought the land from the French -
Abraham Lincoln
was the sixteenth President of the United States -
Franklin Pierce
was the fourteenth President of the United States -
Embargo Act
was a general Embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal -
Andrew Johnson
was the seventeenth President of the United States -
War of 1812
was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Native American allies -
John L. O'Sullivan
was an American columnist and editor who used the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States -
Treaty of Ghent
was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom -
Red River Basin
We made a treaty with Great Britain -
Florida
The Spanish didn't want war and neither did we so the Spanish just gave us Florida -
Ulysses S. Grant
was the eighteenth President of the United States -
Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe established 2 foreign policy ideals -
John Marshall
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court -
Telegraph
a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection -
Trail of tears
as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma -
Texas Annexation
Texas wanted to become a state of the United States of America -
Mexican American War
A war between the U.S. and Mexico -
Oregon Country
Great Britain negotiated with us and let us have the land -
Mexican cession
We fought for the land -
Gadsden Purchase
We bought the land from the Mexicans -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln, freed slaves in the states in rebellion -
Barbed wire
is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s)
