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
• Responsibilities of the government

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• Articles of Confederation
• 1781-1789

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• First U.S. plan 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
• No more colonization in the Americas

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• South Carolina Exposition and Protest
• 1829

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• Written by John C. Calhoun
• outlined the doctrine of nullification, right
  to cancel federal laws
• 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
• Preservation of the Union

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• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

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• Executive order given by Abraham Lincoln
• it freed the slaves in the Confederacy
• But not in the border states

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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
• 2 minute speech

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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 bring an end
  to slavery

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• Important Laws

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Colonial Laws
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• Navigation
• Acts
• 1651

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

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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
• Led to abuse

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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
• Tea, glass, lead, paper and paint

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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
• Coercive Acts

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Laws passed by Congress
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• 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
• 60,000

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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
• Lands west of Mississippi River

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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

245

• 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

281

• Increase
• Mather

8
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• Important Puritan minister Salem witch trials

283

• Samuel
• Morse

8
284

• Invented the telegraph system developed Morse
  code

285

• Lucretia
• Mott

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• Helpful found the womens rights movement church
  meetings

287

• James
• Oglethorpe

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• Founded the colony of Georgia

289

• William
• Penn

8
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• Quaker founded colony of Pennsylvania, believed
  in equality for all

291

• George
• Pickett

8
292

• Confederate officer important in Battle of
  Gettysburg

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• Thomas
• Pinckney

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• Politician negotiated Treaty with the Spanish

295

• Thomas
• Paine

8
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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

301

• 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

8
308

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

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• William
• Tecumseh
• Sherman

8
310

• Union general waged total war on the South

311

• Elizabeth
• Cady
• Stanton

8
312

• Leader of movement to give women the right to vote

313

• Roger
• Taney

8
314

• Supreme Court chief justice wrote the Dred Scott
  decision

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• Tecumseh

8
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• Indian chief who fought with the British in War
  of 1812

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• Henry
• David
• Thoreau

8
318

• Author believed in transcendentalism and civil
  rights

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• Alexis de Tocqueville

8
320

• French author who describe life in 19th century
  America

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• Sojouner
• Truth

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322

• Former slave leading abolitionist and defender
  of womens rights

323

• Harriet
• Tubman

8
324

• 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

327

• David
• Walker

8
328

• 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

333

• Walt
• Whitman

8
334

• Author, poet, journalist

335

• Eli
• Whitney

8
336

• Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable
  parts

337

• John
• Winthrop

8
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