THE HISTORY TAKS REVIEW POWERPOINT SLIDES 1-161

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STAAR REVIEW
By categories
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• Dates Important Events

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• 1607

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• Jamestown founded
• First permanent settlement in America

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• 1620

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• Mayflower Compact
• Helped establish the idea of self-government and
  the practice of majority rules

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• 1754-1763

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• French Indian War
• 7 Years War
• British defeated the French and gained control of
  most of the northern and eastern parts of north
  America

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• 1775

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• Battles of Lexington Concord
• First battles of the American Revolution

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• 1776

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• Declaration of Independence signed
• Colonists break away from England

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• 1781

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• Articles of Confederation ratified
• Becomes the first plan, American government

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• 1788

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• Constitution ratified
• Becomes blueprint for American government

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• 1803

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• Louisiana Purchase
• More than doubles the size of the country
• Thomas Jefferson
• From France for 15 million

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• 1812-1815

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• War of 1812
• Capital burned
• America proves it can defend itself

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• 1846-1848

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• War with Mexico
• James Polk
• America acquires much of Southwest

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• 1861

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• Shots fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
• Beginning of Civil War

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• 1863

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• Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
• Freed the slaves in Confederate states

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• 1865

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• Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House
• Ends Civil War

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• 1877

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• Reconstruction ends
• White Southerners regain control of their state
  governments

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• Presidents

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• George
• Washington

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• 1st
• Bill of Rights
• 1789-1797
• Whiskey Rebellion

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• John
• Adams

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• 2nd
• Federalist
• XYZ Affair
• Alien Sedition Acts

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• Thomas
• Jefferson

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• 3rd
• Democratic-Republican
• Marbury v. Madison
• Louisiana Purchase
• Embargo Act of 1807

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• James
• Madison

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• 4th
• Democratic-Republican
• War of 1812
• American System

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• James
• Monroe

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• 5th
• Democratic-Republican
• Industrialization
• Missouri Compromise
• Monroe Doctrine

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• Andrew
• Jackson

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• 7th
• Democrat/Spoils System
• Nullification/bank war
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Indian Removal Act
• Suffrage for poor white males

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• James
• K.
• Polk

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• 11th
• Democrat
• Texas annexation
• Mexican War
• Gold Rush
• Seneca Falls Convention

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• Abraham
• Lincoln

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• 16th
• Republican
• Secession
• Civil War
• Emancipation Proclamation
• 1st president assassinated

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• Andrew
• Johnson

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• 17th
• Democrat
• 13th 14th Amendments
• Radical Reconstruction
• Impeachment trial
• Sharecropping in South

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• Important
• Documents

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• Magna
• Carta
• 1215

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• 1st document to limit the power of the king
• Trial by jury

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• English
• Bill of
• Rights
• 1689

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• English agreement that guaranteed certain rights
  to all Englishmen influenced the American Bill
  of Rights, protection of individual rights

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• Mayflower
• Compact
• 1620

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• Signed by many Pilgrims on their way to the New
  World they agreed to create a new government and
  follow its laws helped establish the idea of
  self-government

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• Common
• Sense
• 1776

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• Influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine it
  urged Americans to declare their independence

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• Declaration
• of Independence
• 1776

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• July 4th written by Thomas Jefferson announced
  the separation of the colonies from England
  unalienable rights

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• Articles of Confederation
• 1781-1789

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• First U.S. government it was eventually a
  failure because it created a national government
  that was weak replaced with the U.S.
  Constitution

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• Constitution
• 1787

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• Blueprint for American government

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• The Federalists
• Papers
• 1787-1788

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• Series of essays about the nature of government
  by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John
  Jay written to help get the Constitution ratified

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• Bill of Rights
• 1791

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• The first 10 amendments of the Constitution
  guarantees individual rights

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• George Washingtons
• Farewell
• Address 1796

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• Given at his retirement from public office he
  urged America to always remain neutral toward
  other countries and warned about the dangers of
  political parties

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• Monroe Doctrine
• 1823

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• Presidential message that said that Europe should
  not interfere in the affairs of Latin America and
  the U.S. would not interfere in European affairs

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• South Carolina Exposition and Protest
• 1829

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• Written by John C. Calhoun outlined the
  doctrine of nullification, which was a strong
  statement for states rights

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• Appealto the Colored People of the World 1829

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• Written by David Walker who was a black
  abolitionists known as David Walkers Appeal,
  urged slaves to revolt radical document that
  made Southerners furious

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• Liberator
• 1831-1865

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• Newspaper printed by William Lloyd Garrison most
  influential antislavery periodical in U.S.
  history it increased sectionalism between the
  North and South

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• Lincolns First Inaugural
• 1861

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• Lincoln said the North would defend federal
  property in the South

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• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

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• Executive order given by Abraham Lincoln it
  freed the slaves in the Confederacy

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• Gettysburg Address 1863

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• Famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln it said
  that the Union was worth fighting for at any cost

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• Lincolns Second Inaugural 1865

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• Lincoln said Civil War was about slavery and that
  the Union was fighting to end slavery

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• Important Laws

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Colonial Laws

• Navigation
• Acts
• 1651

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• Laws passed to make sure that England controlled
  American trade according to the idea of
  mercantilism

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• Proclamation of 1763

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• British law at end of the French and Indian War
  said that Americans were not allowed to settle
  west of the Appalachian Mountains

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• Sugar Act 1764

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• Fees placed on sugar imported into the colonies
• Tried to end smuggling

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• Quartering Act 1765

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• Required colonists to feed and shelter British
  troops

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• Stamp
• Act 1765

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• All official documents had to carry a stamp

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• Townshend Acts 1767

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• Four laws that, among other things, charged new
  fees on goods imported into the colonies

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• Tea Act 1773

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• Charged a fee on all tea imported to the colonies

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• Intolerable Acts 1774

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• Four laws passed to punish colonists for the
  Boston Tea Party, including closing the port of
  Boston

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Laws passed by Congress

• Land Ordinance 1785

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• Organized the Northwest Territory on a grid
  system

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• Northwest Ordinance 1775

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• Established a government for the Northwest
  Territory and described rules that a territory
  would follow in order to become a state

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• Alien and Sedition Act 1798

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• Placed restrictions on immigrants in the country
  and restricted freedom of speech and freedom of
  the press

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• Embargo Act 1807

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• Restricted American trade with other countries

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• Missouri Compromise 1820

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• Preserved balance between slave and free states
  by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine
  as a free state prohibited slavery in Louisiana
  Territory

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• Indian Removal Act 1830

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• Indians east of the Mississippi River were to be
  moved to new lands in the West

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• Compromise of 1850

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• Preserved balance between free and slave states
  and said Congress would not regulate slavery in
  the territories

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• Fugitive Slave Act 1850

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• Fugitive slaves in the north had to be returned
  to their owners they could not testify in court
  or have a trial by jury and there were heavy
  penalties for anyone who helped an escaped slave

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• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

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• Replaced Missouri Compromise and allowed Kansas
  and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether
  they would allow slavery this was the new idea
  of popular sovereignty.

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• Civil Rights Act 1866

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• Said that everyone born in the U.S. was a citizen
  and entitled to equal rights

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• Reconstruction Acts 1867

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• Known as Radical reconstruction imposed military
  control of the southern states and that they had
  to ratify the 14th amendment and allow former
  slaves to vote,15th amendment

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• Important Supreme Court Cases

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• Marbury
• v.
• Madison

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• 1803, said that Supreme Court had the right to
  review all laws made by Congress established the
  idea of Judicial Review made the Supreme Court
  more powerful, 1st time Checks Balances used

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• McCullough v.
• Maryland

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• 1819, said that a state could not tax a national
  bank increased power of national government

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• Gibbons
• v.
• Ogden

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• 1824, said that the federal government (not state
  government) had the power to regulate trade
  between the states increased power of the
  national government

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• Dred Scott
• v.
• Sandford

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• 1857, said the African Americans were not
  citizens of the U.S. , thus had no rights,
  victory for the South

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• U.S.
• v. Cruikshank
• 5

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• 1876, said that national government could not
  punish someone for violating the civil rights of
  individuals only the states had that power
  violence against African Americans increased in
  the South during Reconstruction

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• Important Treaties

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• Treaty of Paris 1763

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• Ended the French and Indian War between England
  and France

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• Treaty of Paris 1783

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• Ended the American Revolution with England

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• Jays Treaty
• 1794

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• British agreed to leave the forts they occupied
  on the American frontier

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• Pinckneys
• Treaty
• 1795

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• Spain allowed Americans to travel freely along
  the Mississippi River and settled boundary
  dispute between U. S. and Spain

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• Treaty of Greenville
• 1795

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• Ended the Battle of Fallen Timbers 12 Indian
  Tribes agreed to give up their land that
  consisted of most of present-day Ohio and Indiana
  to the U.S. government

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• Louisiana Purchase
• 1803

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• America acquired Louisiana territory from France,
  doubled size of the country

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• Treaty of Ghent
• 1814

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• Ended the War of 1812 with England

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• Adams Onis Treaty
• 1819

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• Spain gave Florida to the United States

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• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• 1848

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• ended the war with Mexico United States acquired
  the Mexican Cession

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• Gadsden Purchase 1853

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• Gave U.S. more land that had been northern
  Mexico completed the acquisition of land that
  makes up the present-day borders of the
  continental U.S.

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• Manifest Destiny

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• A
• Original 13 Colonies

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• 1607 Jamestown founded
• Treaty of Paris 1763
• no taxation without representation
• Declaration of Independence 1776

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• B
• Treaty of Paris 1783

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• September 1783
• Independent Nation United States of America
• Mississippi River serves as western boundary

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• C
• Louisiana Purchase 1803

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• Thomas Jefferson-3rd
• From France for 15 million
• Doubled the size of U.S.A.

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• D
• Red River Basin 1818

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• Settled issues with Britain and U.S. over
  ownership
• Minnesota
• North Dakota

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• E
• Florida 1819

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• From Spain
• Adams-Onis Treaty
• 5 million dollars

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• F
• Texas Annexation
• 1845

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• Issue slavery
• 1836-Lone Star Republic
• 1845 annexation results in Mexican War

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• G
• Oregon Country 1846

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• James Polk expansionist
• Britain did not want war
• 1846 becomes part of U.S.A.

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• H
• Mexican Cession 1848

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• 1846-boundary dispute
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico,
  Colorado, Wyoming

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• I
• Gadsden Purchase 1853

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• Border dispute
• Railroad
• 10 million dollars

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• Key People

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• Abigail Adams

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• Wife of president John Adams-2, mother of John
  Quincy Adams-6, 1st spokesperson for womens
  rights

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• Samuel Adams

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• Important leader in American Revolution, started
  Sons of Liberty

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• Richard Allen

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• Founder of the first African-American Church in
  U.S.

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• Susan B. Anthony

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• Leader of movement to give women the right to
  vote(suffrage), 19th amendment, 1920

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• Benedict Arnold

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• Leader during American Revolution, he switched
  sides and became a traitor

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• Crispus Attucks

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• American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre

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• John James Audubon

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• Naturalists, famous for his paintings of American
  birds

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• Nathaniel Bacon

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• Virginia planter and leader of Bacons Rebellion

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• Daniel Boone

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• Frontiersman who found trail through the
  Cumberland Gap

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• John Wilkes Booth

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• Southerner who assassinated President Lincoln
  after Civil War

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• Joseph
• Brant

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• Mohawk Indian chief who fought with the Americans
  during American Revolution

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• John Breckinridge

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• Politician who supported states rights view in
  early republic

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• John
• Brown

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• Militant abolitionist who led a raid at Harpers
  Ferry

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• Ambrose Burnside

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• Union general in Civil War fought battle of
  Antietam

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• John C. Calhoun

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• Vice-president of U.S. created doctrine of
  nullification

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• Mary Chesnut

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• Southern diarist who described life during the
  Civil War

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• William
• Clark

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• Explorer of Lewis and Clark expedition

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• Henry
• Clay

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• Politician known as The Great Compromiser

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• Christopher Columbus

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• Italian explorer of the New World

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• James Fenimore Cooper

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• First major U.S. novelist wrote stories about the
  frontier

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• Charles Cornwallis

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• British general defeated in battle of Yorktown
  during American Revolution surrendered

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• Jefferson Davis

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• President of the Confederate States of America
  during the Civil War

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• Dorothea
• Dix

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• Reformer who fought to improve the care of the
  mentally ill

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• Stephen
• A.
• Douglas

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• Politician who participated in Lincoln-Douglas
  debates in 1860

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• Fredrick Douglas

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• Leading African American abolitionist, owned the
  North Star newspaper.

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• Jonathan Edwards

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• Theologian and Puritan who sparked the Great
  Awakening

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• Ralph
• Waldo Emerson

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• Writer and poet popularized idea of
  transcendentalism

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• Olaudah Equiano

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• Former slave and abolitionist who wrote his
  autobiography

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• Benjamin Franklin

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• Author, publisher, inventor, and diplomat

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• Robert
• Fulton

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• Inventor of steam boat, ran first commercial
  steamboat

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• Thomas Gage

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• British military governor of Massachusetts at
  time of American Revolution

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• William
• Lloyd Garrison

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• Printer of Abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator

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• Horatio Gates

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• General during the American Revolution who
  defeated the British at the Battle of Saratoga

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• George
• III

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• British king during the American Revolution

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• Angelina Sarah Grimke

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• Grimke abolitionist sisters

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• Alexander Hamilton

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• Author of many of the Federalists papers first
  Secretary of Treasury

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• John
• Hancock

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• Important leader of the American Revolution
  first to sign the Declaration of Independence

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• Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• One of the greatest fiction writers in American
  literature

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• Patrick
• Henry

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• Important person in the American Revolution, said
  Give me liberty or give me death

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• Sam
• Houston

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• Important leader of Texas Revolution

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• Ann
• Hutchinson

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• Banished from Massachusetts colony one of the
  founders of Rhode Island

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• Thomas Stonewall
• Jackson

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• Confederate general fought in First Battle of
  Bull Run

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• John
• Jay

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• First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  negotiated Jays Treaty

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• John
• Paul
• Jones

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• Naval hero during American Revolution
• I have not yet begun to fight

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• Marquis de Lafayette

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• French hero of the American Revolution

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• Robert E.
• Lee

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• Famous Confederate general during Civil War,
  surrendered at Appomattox Court House to Grant

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• Meriwether Lewis

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• Explorer of Lewis and Clark expedition

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• John
• Locke

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• English philosopher his ideas influenced
  American ideas about government
• (unalienable rights)

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• Henry W. Longfellow

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• Most popular American poet of the 19th century

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• John
• Marshall

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• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court one of the
  most important one in history

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• George
• Mason

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• Insisted on protection of individual rights in
  the Constitution anti-Federalist

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• Increase
• Mather

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• Important Puritan minister Salem witch trials

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• Samuel
• Morse

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• Invented the telegraph system developed Morse
  code

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• Lucretia
• Mott

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• Helpful found the womens rights movement church
  meetings

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• James
• Oglethorpe

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• Founded the colony of Georgia

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• William
• Penn

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• Quaker founded colony of Pennsylvania, believed
  in equality for all

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• George
• Pickett

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• Confederate officer important in Battle of
  Gettysburg

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• Thomas
• Pinckney

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• Politician negotiated Treaty with the Spanish

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• Thomas
• Paine

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• Influential writer during the American
  Revolution Common Sense, American Crisis, Patriot

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• Pocahontas

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• Helped maintain peace between the early colonist
  and Native Americans, married John Rolfe

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• Paul
• Revere

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• Made famous ride during the American Revolution
  to warn of a British attack artist, Boston
  Massacre

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• Betsy
• Ross

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• Seamstress who may have created first American
  flag

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• Sacagawea

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• Indian woman valuable guide to Lewis and Clark
  expedition

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• Dred
• Scott

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• Slave who sued for his freedom in famous Supreme
  Court case ruled he was not a citizen of U.S.
  thus had no rights

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• Winfield
• Scott

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• General in War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War

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• William
• Tecumseh
• Sherman

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• Union general waged total war on the South

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• Elizabeth
• Cady
• Stanton

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• Leader of movement to give women the right to vote

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• Roger
• Taney

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• Supreme Court chief justice wrote the Dred Scott
  decision

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• Tecumseh

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• Indian chief who fought with the British in War
  of 1812

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• Henry
• David
• Thoreau

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• Author believed in transcendentalism and civil
  rights

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• Alexis de Tocqueville

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• French author who describe life in 19th century
  America

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• Sojouner
• Truth

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• Former slave leading abolitionist and defender
  of womens rights

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• Harriet
• Tubman

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• Former slave abolitionist and organized the
  Underground Railroad

325

• Nat
• Turner

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326

• Slave who led famous and bloody slave rebellion
  in the South

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• David
• Walker

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• Black abolitionist wrote pamphlet urging slaves
  to rebel

329

• Daniel
• Webster

8
330

• Important politician attacked idea of states
  rights

331

• Noah
• Webster

8
332

• Created first American dictionary

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• Walt
• Whitman

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334

• Author, poet, journalist

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• Eli
• Whitney

8
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• Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable
  parts

337

• John
• Winthrop

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338

• Important Puritan first governor of
  Massachusetts Bay Colony

339

• Brigham
• Young

8
340

• Led Mormons west to escape religious persecution

341

• John
• Peter
• Zenger

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342

• Journalist his trial helped establish idea of
  freedom of the press