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| Jamestown was founded in | 1607
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| Declaration of Independence was signed on | July 4, 1776
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| The United States Constitution was written in the year | 1787
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| Louisiana purchase was in the year | 1803
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| Civil War was fought in the years | 1861 - 1865
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| The first battle of the American Revolution: | Concord, 1775
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| The turning point in the American Revolution: | Battle of Saratoga, 1777
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| The end of the American Revolution: | Battle of Yorktown, 1781
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| The treaty that ended the American Revolution: | Treaty of Paris 1783
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| The first shots of the Civil War were fired at * on * | Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861
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| The turning point in the Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg - Northern Victory
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| The capture of this city in 1863 gave the North control over the Mississippi river | Vicksburg
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| Where General Lee surrendered to General Grant | Appomattox Court House
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| A strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country | Sectionalism
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| A campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. | Temperance Movement
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| The first representative assembly in the new world | Virginia House of Burgesses
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| The freedom of private business to operate competitively with little government regulation | Free enterprise
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| People that supported strong national government | Federalists
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| An idea towards society in the late 1700s based on the belief that the good virtue and morality of the people was essential to sustain the republican form of government. | Republicanism
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| The first document that limited the power of the government | Magna Carta 1215
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| The basis for the American Bill of Rights | The English Bill of Rights
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| The first American Constitution | Articles of Confederation
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| A policy of establishing the principles and procedures for the orderly expansion of the United States. | Northwest Ordinance
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| An agreement signed by Pilgrims to create fair laws for the good of the colony. First example of self government in the North America | Mayflower Compact
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| The Federalist papers were written to defend the constitution. Written by: | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
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| Written by Lincoln to dedicate a cemetery for soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg Address
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| Created two houses in Congress - one based on population and one with equal representation | The Great Compromise
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| A statement written by woman's rights supporters that was modeled after the Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Sentiments
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| Founded the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence. Loud mouth Boston patriot who complained taxing the colonies was unfair | Samuel Adams
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| Andrew Jackson's vice president and supporter of the South before and during the war | John C. Calhoun
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| Was a powerful Kentucky Congressman and Senator who proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay
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| Massachusetts Congressman and Senator who spoke for the North and preservation of the Union | Daniel Webster
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| President of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis
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| General of the Northern army | Ulysses S. Grant, 1863 - 1865. He was the General of the Union Army's western campaign before.
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| General of the Southern army | Robert E. Lee, 1861 - 65
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| member of the Virginia House of Burgesses "Give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry
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| Father of the Constitution | James Madison
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| Former slave who became the best-know black abolitionist in the country | Frederick Douglas
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| An escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. | Harriet Tubman
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| Organized the Seneca Falls Convention and created the Women's Rights Movement in the US | Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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| Known as the "Father of Education" | Horace Mann
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| An African American regiment during the Civil War that played a key role in the attach of Fort Wagner | The 54th Massachusetts Infantry
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| Court Case that set up judicial review | Marbury vs. Madison
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| Court decision counting slaves as property not people | Dred Scott vs. Sanford
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| Abraham Lincoln was elected in the year | 1860
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| The capital of the Confederacy | Richmond, Virginia
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| First REAL battle of the Civil War | Battle of Bull Run - long and bloody
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| Bloodiest Civil War battle | Battle of Antietam, on September 17, 1862. North won
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| Emancipation Proclamation issued on | January 1, 1863
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| This general was called to apply "Total War" to the South in 1864 | General William Tecumseh Sherman. Became known as "Sherman's march to the sea"
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| The Bank of the United States opened in the year | 1791
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| Jay's Treaty was in the year | 1794
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| Pickney's Treaty was with the country of: | Spain
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| Treaty which ended the war of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent
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| The boundaries of Florida are settled in this treaty | Adams-Onis Treaty
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| George Washington was president from the years: | 1789 - 1797
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| The first political parties: Federalist Party led by * and Democratic-Republican Party led by * | Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson
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| the election of 1800 caused what amendment | the 12th amendment
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| The Embargo Act was in the year | 1807
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| The Missouri Compromise and The Monroe Doctrine were both done by president: | Monroe
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| Meeting of colonial delegates in September 1774 | 1st Continental Congress
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| A rebellion of farmers due to their inability to pay taxes | Shays' Rebellion
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| Meeting of 55 Delegates in May of 1787, to try to improve the Articles of Confederation | Constitutional Convention
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| proposed 3 branches of government with a two house legislature | Virginia Plan
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| Proposed plan to keep only one legislature. | New Jersey Plan
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| The idea that political authority rests with people | NThe idea that political power rests with the people
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| The first state to ratify the constitution | Delaware
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| Large farms that grew only one kind of crop | plantation
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| The transfer of plants and animals from Europe to the Americas | Columbian Exchange
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| He introduced tobacco which saved Jamestown | John Rolfe
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| Religious group that left England to escape religious persecution | pilgrims
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| Thousands of Puritans flock to the New World between 1630 and 1640 | Great Migration
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| Kicked out of Massachusetts for claiming God spike directly to her | Anne Hutchinson
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| The 4 New England Colonies: | Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (CHIMNE)
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| The 4 Middle Colonies: | New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware (JYPD)
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| The 5 Southern Colonies: | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
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| Spiritual revival that swept the colonies in the 1730's and 1740's | Great Awakening
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| The Age of Reason | Enlightenment
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| Ben Franklin's unsuccessful attempt to unite the colonies | Albany Plan of Union
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| War between French and English for control of North America - Ohio River Valley | French and Indian War
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| British tax on glass, paper, lead, and tea | Townshend Acts
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| Punishment for the Boston Tea Party | Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
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| Wrongful taking of power | Usurpations
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| Washington crosses this river on Christmas night, 1776, to surprise the Hessians | Delaware Rivers
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| governor of Spanish Louisiana, when Spain entered the war against Britain in 1779. | Bernardo de Galvez
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| American naval hero who famously said, "I have not yet begun to fight" | John Paul Jones
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| Became close friend of General Washington. Aided the Patriots with money and supplies. | Marquis de Lafayette
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| German who helped train the Patriots at Valley Forge | Friedrich von Steuben
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| First written plan of government/constitution in the colonies | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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