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Jamestown  the first permanent English settlement, was founded in 1607.  
Declaration of Independence  was signed on July 4, 1776.  
Constitution  of the United States was written in 1787.  
4. President Thomas Jefferson  purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.  
Civil War  was fought from 1861-1865.  
Lexington, Massachusetts  6. The first shots of the American Revolution were fired in April 1775  
7. Concord, Massachusetts  was the site of the first battle of the American Revolution.  
Battle of Saratoga  was the turning point of the American Revolution  
Yorktown, Virginia  The British defeat at___ by George Washington’s troops signaled the end of the American Revolution.  
Fort Sumter  10. The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ___in South Carolina.  
11. The Battle of Gettysburg  was the turning point in the Civil War for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again.  
Vicksburg, Mississippi  The capture of ___by the North in 1863, effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.  
13. Appomattox Court House  is the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.  
Mercantilism  is an economic theory that a country’s strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country.  
abolitionist  was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States  
tariff  is a tax on goods brought into a country  
protective tariff  is a tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry.  
Sectionalism  is a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country.  
Manifest Destiny  the belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  
Temperance Movement  was a campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol.  
Representative Government  is a system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.  


   

 
 

 
 

 

 
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