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A group of English businessmen sent ships to form the first permanent English colony in North America.
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The first document establishing self governance in North America
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A constitutional document in England enumerating certain rights for Englishmen.
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Acts passed by England to bolster their own economy by regulating those of their colonies. Included the Navigation act of 1663.
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One of the acts passed that is grouped under the wide banner of the Navigation Acts. The Navigation Act of 1663 required that any materials traded between any English colonies must go through England first.
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The king of England gave William Penn a piece of land as payment for a debt that his father was owed. Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania where the Quakers settled.
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A period of suspicion among the puritans, consisting of many hearings, prosecutions, and executions of those suspected of witchcraft.
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The Molasses act established very high taxes on items such as molasses, rum, and sugar, from non-English colonies in the Caribbean.
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The first global war affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and The Philippines. This war was mainly fought in the Americas to expand trade into the western interior.
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A proclamation that drew a line limiting colonial expansion westward in North America
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Provided a tax on sugar and molasses, and attempted to end the smuggling of french and dutch sugar.
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Required colonies to house English soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
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Parliament repealed the stamp act but enacted the declaratory act stating that the British government had the authority to create legislation for the colonies.
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Five people are killed in a shootout in Boston and nine British soldiers are tried for murder.
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The first Continental Congress meets with delegates including Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Sam Adams. Every colony sent a representative but Georgia.
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The first battle in the American Revolutionary war.
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The North American English Colonies fought and won their independence from England.
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The newly independent north american colonies declared their independence after winning the Revolutionary war.
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Ratified in 1781. The US's first attempt at a constitution, with a weak federal government with no power to tax.
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Each new state sent delegates in order to create a new governing document after the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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The constitution became ratified after New Hampshire became the ninth state to sign.
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Established lower federal courts, under the supreme court, a power given to congress by Article III.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts limited rights to free speech and immigrant rights.
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Thomas Jefferson was elected, transferring power from Federalists to Democratic Republicans
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The Supreme Court case that established the power of Judicial Review.
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The US purchased a large tract of land, leading to westward expansion.
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Restricted US trade in foreign nations.
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Lifted all embargoes besides France and England.
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A British attack on the capital city during the war of 1812.
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Ended the war of 1812 and settled the
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Discussions made about the war of 1812 and beginnings of the idea of secession from the union.
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The US purchases Florida and claims Oregon in exchange for Texas.
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A depression that consisted of sectionalism, banking failures, and agriculture decline.
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A Utopian society founded by Robert Owen that ultimately failed.
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First minority vote president. Henry Clay was Speaker of the House and also Sec. of State of his administration.
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Begins ¨Age of the common man¨. Shows the Democratization of the U.S.
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Tariffs made to protect Northern industries. SC considered this unconstitutional.
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Removed civilized Indian Tribes from their territory to reservations westward.
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Declared tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional. Would have led to SC secession.
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Increases tensions between Mexico and U.S. Eventually sparks the Mexican-American war.
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Recession caused by Andrew Jackson's policies regarding the bank.
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Texas becomes a state
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Gave the U.S present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
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The discovery of gold in California caused people to flood in, eventually leading to California gaining statehood.
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The Compromise of 1850 was passed by Congress that allowed California into the Union as a free state. The Compromise did not forbid slavery in other new territories.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska where the people living in those territories could vote on whether or not to be a slave or free state.
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The Dred Scott Decision ruled that Dred Scott, a free African American, could not sue the federal court since African Americans were not considered to be citizens of the U.S so had no rights as citizens. The Court also ruled that Congress could not deny slavery from new territories.
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Southern Secession began when South Carolina seceded in 1860 followed by other states that proceeded to create their own new government and were known as the Confederacy States.
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The First Battle of Bull Run was a wake up call for Union leaders when they were defeated at this first major battle of the Civil War.
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The American Civil War began when southern confederates attacked Fort Sumter, ending in the first Confederate victory. The war ended with Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.
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Slavery is prohibited when Lincoln banned slavery in all United States territories.
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The Gettysburg Address given by President Lincoln to honor the fallen soldiers from the battle.
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Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater.
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The 13th Amendment was ratified completely prohibiting slavery in the United States.
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Stated that all those born in the United States were citizens.
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The 14th Amendment was ratified and guaranteed that anyone born in the US was a citizen and that no state could deny anybody the laws of the country.
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The 15th Amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote.
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A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries.
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An unwritten, informal deal hat settled the intensely disputed 1876 election. Under the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, federal troops would be removed from the South, officially ending the era of Reconstruction.
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A civil service reform enacted to mandate that positions within federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit rather than political affiliation.
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This was the first comprehensive immigration law enacted in the United States. In response, Congress passed two major acts, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which would restrict Chinese laborers from emigrating into the United States.
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A group of 5 legal cases that the United States Supreme Court consolidated into a single ruling which was declared unconstitutional, thus spurring the approval of Jim Crow Laws.
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An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States or any of its territories.
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The first federal act against monopolies, extensively used during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency for trust-busting, but initially used against the formation of labor unions. The act is informally known as the Sherman Against Monopolies Law.
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Pullman lowered wages yet refused to lower rent in the "company town". As a result, the American railway union refused to move train cars, but achieved nothing when Cleveland shut down the strike.
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Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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A result of the Spanish American war, allowing the US to establish its dominance as pacific power
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president of the United States