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founded: 1st permanent english settlement.
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1st representative assembly in north america.
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first african slaves were brought to anorth americn colony of jamestown, virginia, to aid the production such as tobacco.
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signed by pilgrim men, who agreed to self-government through a social contract.
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founded: pilgrims traveled to plymouth and signed the mayflower compact to establish self-government.
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was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept protestant europe and british america, and especially the american colonies in the 1730s, leaving a permanent impact on american protestantism.
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by the mid-18th century, noth the british and french both wanted to extend their north american colonies into the land west of the applician mountains.
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in the terms of the treaty, france gave up all its territories in mainland north america, effectively ending any foreign miltiary threat to the british colonies there.
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because of their red coats, and minutemen, the colonists' miltia exchanged gunfire at lexington and concord in massachuetts.
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british planned to arrest colonial leaders and seize weapons. paul revere made famous midnight ride to warn the miltia. known as the "shot heard around the world."
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written primarily by thomas jefferson. listed grievances against george 3rd and claimed independence from britain based on the philoosophies.
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ended the revolutionary war and recognized american independence. the contiental congress named a five-member comission to neogitate a treaty- john adams, benjamin franklin, john jay, thomas jefferson and henry laurens.
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the orginal 13 colonies made up the first 13 states of the united states. eventtually, the american land west of the applician mountains was divided into territories.
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the 3/5ths compromise - slaves were counted as 3/5ths (60%) of a white cittizen for purposes of representation and taxation.
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george washington began the trek from his mount vernon plantation to the new capital of new york.
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collective name for the first ten amendments on the united states constitution.
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said that the supreme court had the right to review all laws that made by congress; established the principle of judicial review.
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causes - england prevented trade with other countries.
- impressment of the u.s. (forced to work on british ships)
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- foreign affairs - america proved it could protect itself.
- economy - u.s became more independent of foreign trade; created their own goods, sparked the industrial revolution.
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- admitted missouri as a slave state, and maine as a free state.
- kept balance between free and slave states in congress.
- prohibited slavery north of missouri.
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by 1840 almost 7 million americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous.
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the idea that america destined to expand from "sea to shining sea" or the atlantic to the pacfic.
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Tension betwen the North and the South as each "Section" of the country placed ts own interests above the nation as a whole.
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- replaced the missouri compromise
- Slavery in each territory to be decided by popular soverignty -"Bleeding Kansas" -- conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in Kansas from 1854-1859.
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Served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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Started when the southern states seceded from the Union after the election of Abraham LIncoln.
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the movement to end slavery.
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The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges.
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- california becomes a a free state
- no slave trade in d.c.
- popular soverignty to determine slavery in mexican cession
- fugitive slave law helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves from the north.
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At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.