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McLaughlin/Brown-U.S. History-CHS TAKS Review #3

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What year did Columbus discover the new world?   1492  
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Jamestown, Virginia, the first successful English colony, was settled in what year?   1607  
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The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th of what year?   1776  
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What year did our constitution replace the Constitutional Convention & Articles of Confederation?   1787  
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What year did the Louisiana Purchase & Lewis and Clark expedition take place?   1803  
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taxation without representation - Stamp Act & Colonial protests against British taxes and policies   causes of the American Revolution  
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1215, British document that limited the power of the king   Magna Carta  
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1689, British document that gave English citizens certain rights   English Bill of Rights  
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first representative government in the colonies   Virginia House of Burgesses  
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first written constitution in the colonies   Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  
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1776, Americans listed grievances against King George III of England, declared American colonies to be independent   Declaration of Independence  
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Failed first attempt at a national government. Federal government had very limited power, difficult to pass a law, no president, couldn't tax or raise money   Articles of Confederation  
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Reconstruction led by President Lincoln & then Andrew Johnson, both wanted peace without punishment. Confederates were allowed back into the Union if they pledged loyalty to the Union.   Presidential Reconstruction  
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the republicans in Congress take control of reconstruction; they wanted the South punished; the Southern states are divided into 5 military districts; Southern leaders were disenfranchised   Congressional Reconstruction  
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President of the U.S. at the end of the Civil War, he was assassinated and not able to finish his plan of bringing the South back into the Union   Abraham Lincoln  
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man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln   John Wilkes Boothe  
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Lincoln's vice-resident, he bacame president after Lincoln was Killed; he was impeached by Congress because he was interfering with Congressional Reconstruction   Andrew Johnson  
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Civil War hero that served as U.S. President during reconstruction   Ulysses S. Grant  
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laws passed in the South right after the Civil War; they limited the freedom of ex-slaves   Black Codes  
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organization that helped ex-slaves after the Civil War   Freedmen's Bureau  
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name given to Northerners who came to the South during reconstruction to take advantage of the hard times   Carpetbaggers  
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name given to white Southerners that cooperated with the Reconstruction governments   Scalawags  
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founded in 1866, this organization attempted to stop ex-slaves from gaining equality in the South   Ku Klux Klan  
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a popular system of farming after the Civil War, a farmer worked a piece of land and was paid with a portion of the crop   sharecropping  
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laws passed in the South that segregated the races   Jim Crow laws  
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