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Centered in the middle and reaches the Niger River.
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A major source of slaves for Portuguese traders and other European countries.
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Empire was founded by Sundiata Keita
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Also known as Wagadou, an important trading center, and cultural crossroads from 400 to 1100 C.E.
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He completed a total of 4 voyages.
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King Ferdinand initially intended for Columbus to find an all-water route to Asia but instead, he stumbled upon America.
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Spain and Portugal settled over lands newly discovered by Columbus.
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A Spanish conqueror that was best remembered for conquering the Aztec Empire in 1521 claiming Mexico for Spain.
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An attempt to establish the first English settlement.
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This was the first permanent English settlement in the United States of America.
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The Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor in 1620, it was the land in which settlers first set foot.
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English statesman who projected the founding of the North American province of Maryland.
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A series of laws passed by the English Parliament to regulate shipping and maritime commerce.
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The cause of the war was the colonists' desire for more land.
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It rid the government of corruption and expanded the territory into Indian land which were immediate consequences of the rebellion.
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Second of a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France in North America for control of the continent
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A series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies.
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Also known as the French and Indian War, began in 1756 when the fighting between French and colonists merged into a European conflict involving France, Austria, and Russia against Prussia and Britain
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Reduced the previous tax on molasses.
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An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British
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It served to show the world that the 13 colonies obtained their independence from Great Britain.
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The turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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Uprising of farmers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
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The ratification of the articles was delayed a few times due to several reasons such as the claims to western lands held by the states.
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On October 19, 1781 the British surrendered thus ending the American Revolutionary War.
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August 31, 1786- June 1787
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Also known as Ordinances, these procedures were intended to establish ordered and equal procedures for settlements in the Northwest Territory.
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June 21, 1788 The Constitution became the official transcript of the United States when New Hampshire ratified it.
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A series of four laws which limited freedom of speech and freedom of the press to foreigners.
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The largest land purchase made in the United States. It doubled the size of the country.
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December 22, 1807, Prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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June 18, 1812 - February 18, 1815
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Fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory,
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The legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state.
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The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict, lasting over a decade, which had several distinct phases and took place in different regions of the Spanish colony of New Spain.
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It was issued during a revolution against the Mexican government.
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The main cause of the war was the westward expansion of the United States.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.
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It put off the secession of the South for a little while.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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A decision that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle a slave freedom.
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First slave state in the South to declare separation from the United States.
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A war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South.
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The first major battle of the American Civil War and was a Confederate victory.
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Over 23,000 men fell as casualties in the one-day Battle of Antietam, making it the bloodiest day in American history.
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The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863
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The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
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He was assassinated in a theatre.