cieri mackenzie hodge

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  • jamestown

    jamestown
    first permanent english settlement

  • mayflower compact

    mayflower compact

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

  • american revolution ended

    american revolution ended
    lexington and concord

  • treaty of paris

    treaty between us and britian that ended the American Revolution

  • constitution written

    constitution written

  • bill of rights

    bill of rights
    first ten ammendements in the constitution

  • Cotton Gin

    cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers .

  • marbury vs madison

    marbury vs madison
    judicial review

  • louisanna purchase

    louisanna purchase
    bought land from napolean
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    War of 1812

    war between the united states and britian , ended with treaty of ghent .

  • Treaty of ghent

    ended the war of 1812 , no territory exchanged hands and trade disputes were not resolved .

  • MIssouri Compromise

    a series of laws enacted to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states .
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    Mexican War

    war between united states and mexico , victory for the united states resulted in Mexican Cession .

  • california gold rush

    california gold rush
    went to california to look for gold

  • Compromise of 1850

    a series of congressional laws inteded to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states .

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    law that established the territories of Kansas and NEbraska and gave the residents the right to choose if they were gonna allow slavery or not .

  • DRed Scott vs Sandford

    A sumpreme court case in which the court ruled that no African American could be a citizen and that Dred Scott was still a slave .
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    civil war

  • emancipation proclomation

    speech given by president abraham lincoln , in which he freed all the slaves in states that were rebillion against the union .

  • gettysburg address

    speech given by abraham lincoln , to honor the men who died at gettysburg , which had been fought in july; begins , "four score years ago" .

  • Appomatox Court house

    the virginia town where lee surrended to Grant , ending the civil war .