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100 Cards in this Set
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Commonwealth v. Hunt
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Unions are legal if methods are "honorable and peaceful"
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Dartmouth v. Woodward
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States can't control business charters
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Fletcher v. Peck
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Protected property rights
Supreme Court can overturn state laws |
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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Only Congress can regulate interstate commerce
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Marbury v. Madison
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Set up judicial review
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Federal Gov't is supreme
Bank of US is legal |
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Segregation is legal because separate but equal
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Tariff 1816
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Part of the American System
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Tariff 1828
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Tariff of Abominations
Caused Nullification crisis |
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Panic of 1819
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Caused by over speculation of WESTERN LANDS
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Panic of 1837
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(In Part) caused by Jackson's banking policies
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Panic of 1857
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Added to social division between North and South
(Hit North worse than South) |
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Adam-Onis Treaty
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Florida purchase
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Convention of 1800
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Ended Quasi-War w/ France
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Convention of 1818
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Fixed border at 49th parallel from MN to Rockies
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Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty
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Gave US Mexican cession
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Jay's Treaty
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Very unpopular w/ Democratic-Republicans
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Pickney's Treaty
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Treaty between US and Spain that gave US rights to use New Orleans
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Rush-Bagot Agreement
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Demilitarized Great Lakes
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Divided South America between Spain and Portugual
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Treaty of Ghent
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Returned thing to status quo after the War of 1812
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
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Gave GB huge land gains in N. America
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Treaty of Paris (1783)
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US Independance
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Great/Connecticut Compromise
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Bickering over how each state was represented
Created Bicameral/Two house legeslature |
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Missouri Compromise
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Caused by debates over the expansion of Slavery
Balanced Slave/Free state numbers Gave momentary peace |
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Compromise of 1850
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Ended Slave in DC
California is a free state Created Fugitive Slave Law Popular Sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Supported by Stephen Douglas
Popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska |
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3/5 Compromise
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Caused by debates over how slaves should be counted in population
North - Opposed; South - Should be a person Slaves = 3/5 of a Person |
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1st Amendment
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Protects basic freedoms:
Speech, Petition, Press, Assembly, Religion (Remember RAPPS) |
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5th Amendment
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Protection of those accused of crimes
Due Process ("I plea the 5th") |
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9th Amendment
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People have more rights than just what it says in the Constitution
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10th Amendment
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Whatever powers are not given to the National gov't is given to the states
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13th Amendment
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Reconstruction Amendment
Freed the Slaves |
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14th Amendment
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Reconstruction Amendment
All citizens are equal under the law |
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15th Amendment
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Reconstruction Amendment
Gave suffrage to African Americans |
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Crittenden Compromise
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(Did not pass) Last effort to avoid Civil War
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Currency Act
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The colonies couldn't print their own money
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Intolerable/Coercive Acts
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Led to 1st Continental Congress;
British troops can stay in your home; Closed Boston Harbor; Soldiers can be tried in GB; Ends Massachusetts Town Meetings, etc |
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Established procedure for dividing NW territory
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Maine Law of 1851
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1st Prohibition Law
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Maryland Toleration Act
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Believe in God and you're fine
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Molasses Act
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Taxed certain imports
Useless because of SMUGGLING |
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Navigation Acts
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Supported British mercantilism
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NW Ordinance of 1787
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Passed by Articles of Confederation
Prohibited Slavery in certain areas |
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Quartering Act
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Have to house British Soldiers
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Quebec Act
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left Quebec alone
combined w/ Intolerable/Coercive Acts caused uproar |
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Revenue Act
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Reduced taxes/duties on molasses
Extended tax/duty to British Molasses |
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Stamp Act
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First direct tax on colonies
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Sugar Act
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Duties on wine, coffee, and molasses;
1764 |
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Tallmadge Amendment
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(Before MO Compromise)
Proposed that there would be no more slaves in Missouri |
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Tea Act
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Gave the East India Company a monopoly on a certain commodity
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Townshend Acts
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Taxes on things that the colonies could only buy from GB
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Wade Davis Bill
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Attempt at harsher Reconstruction Plans
Shot down by Lincoln |
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Wilmot Proviso
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Proposal to restrict slavery extending into Mexican cession
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Led to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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Embargo Act
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Made Thomas Jefferson very unpopular
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Force Bill
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Passed after the Nullification Crisis
To save face after lowering the tariff |
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Runaway slaves must be returned to their owners
Part of the Compromise of 1850 enraged the North |
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Homestead Act
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The gov't will pay you to move West in land
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Indian Removal Act
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Forced Native Americans to move West of the Mississippi
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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Set up the Supreme Court
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Legal Tender Act
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Allowed the Union to issue currency during the Civil War
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Macon's Bill No. 2
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Ended trade restriction on France and Britain w/ the promise to reinstate restrictions on one country if the other respected US trade
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Morrill Land Grant Act
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Granted states land on which to build colleges
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Non-Intercourse Act
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Retained embargo on Britain and France
Ended it on other countries |
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Pacific Railway Act
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Gave land to companies to build the transcontinental
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Reconstruction Acts
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Instituted military rule in the South
Enfranchised blacks Required approval for the 14th Amendment |
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Tenure of Office Act
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The sole purpose of this act was to impeach Andrew Johnson
That's it They didn't want him anymore so they made this |
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Election of 1800
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Referred to as a revolution because of the peaceful transfer of power from on party to another
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Election of 1824
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Corrupt Bargain
Winner - John Adams Loser - Jackson |
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Election of 1860
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Led to secession of 7 southern states
Winner - Lincoln |
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Election of 1876
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Resulted in a compromise
Troops pulled out of South, then Hayes wins |
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J. Adams' Administration
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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W. Harrison's Administration
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Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign
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T. Jefferson's Administration
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"We are all Republicans, We are all Democrats"
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A. Jackson's Administration
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Mass politics
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J. Polk's Administration
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Manifest Destiny
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J. Monroe's Administration
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Era of Good Feelings
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Federalists
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Party destroyed by the Hartford Convention
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Democratic Republicans
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Favored smaller federal gov't
Strict interpretation of Constitution French Interests |
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Whig
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Aside from having a stupid name
Party formed in opposition of Andrew Jackson |
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Republicans
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Against the expansion of slavery in the new territories
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Know-Nothing Party
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Anti-immigrant party in the early 1800's
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1600-1650s
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English Civil War, Anne Hutichinson;
City upon hill, Pilgrims, headright system, Freedom of conscience; Colonial of Jamestown and Quebec; Fundamental Orders, 1st slaves imported, Rolfe and tobacco Mayflower Compact, Indentured servants, Roger Williams, Puritan Migration, VA House of Burgesses |
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1650-1700s
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Trade & Navigation Acts, King Phillip's war, Halfway Covenant;
Restoration Colonies, Bacon's Rebellion, Dominion of New England; |
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1700-1750s
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Peter Zenger Trial, Great Awakening, James Oglethorpe, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards;
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1750s
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French & Indian War, Albany Plan, Mercantilism, Salutary Neglect, William Pitt
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1760s
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Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Paxton Boys, Sugar Act, Not Taxation without Representation;
Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements, Pontiac's Rebellion, Townshend Acts; Proclamation Act, Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years War, Declaratory Act |
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1770s
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Battle of Saratoga, Thomas Pain's "Common Sense," Coercive/Intolerable Acts, Olive Branch Petition, Boston Tea Party;
Tea Act, Boston Massacre, Gaspee Affair, 1st/2nd Continental Congress; Committee of Correspondance, Lextington and Concord |
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1780s
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VA Statue of Religious Freedom Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, 1st Land Ordinance passed
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Navigation Acts were part of the British policy known as:
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Mercantilism
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Dutch settled New Netherlands because:
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Expansion of Wealth
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France negotiated a Treaty of Alliance w/ the new American Nation after:
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Defeat of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga
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Caused discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army:
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The soldiers feared for their families back home
Inadequate arms/ammunition Paid in deprecate paper money Inadequate clothing and nurishment |
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Puritans are:
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NON-SEPERATISTS
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Proclamation Line of 1763
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Colonists can't go past he Appalachian Mountains
Created to avoid conflict between the trans-Appalachian Indians |
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By the 1750s, British colonies were characterized by:
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Many religious denominations
A Society without a hereditary aristocracy A growing number of non English settlers Acceptance of slavery |
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Colonial cities primary functions were to:
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Mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods
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Indentured Labor allowed what:
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the poor to come to America
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Stamp Act Crisis was important because:
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Demonstration of willingness to use violence
Revolution was inevitable British says they have no right for Independence Denied them of their birthrights |