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HistoryFacts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement which was founded in 1607 |
| Declaration of Independence | signed onj July 4, 1776 |
| Constitution | was written in 1787 |
| Louisiana Territory | President Thomas Jefferson purchased this from France in 1803 |
| Civil War | fought from 1861-1865 |
| Lexington, Massachusetts | the place where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in April 1775 |
| Concord, Massachusetts | site of the first real battle of the American Revolution immediately following the shots fired at Lexington |
| Battle of Saratoga | the turning point of the American Revolution as it gave France a reason to enter the war against Britain |
| Yorktown, Virginia | the British defeat here by George Washington's troops signaled the end of the American Revolution |
| Cornwallis | British general |
| Fort Sumtner, South Carolina | the place where the first shots of the Civil war were fired |
| Battle of Gettysburg | the turning point of the Civil War for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invade again. |
| Vicksburg, Mississippi | the capture by the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederation in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union |
| Appomattox Court House | the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant, ending the Civil War |
| Antietam, Maryland | the bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War Halting the first Confederate attack on Northern soil |
| Emancipation Proclamation | After the Antietam, Maryland battle, Licoln issued this |
| mercantilism | an economic theory where a country's strength is based on the amount of wealth it has, a country should sell more than it buys, and the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country |
| abolitionist | a person who wanted to end slavery |
| tariff | a tax on goods brought into a country |
| protective tariff | a tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry |
| sectionalism | a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country |
| manifest destiny | the belief that the US should own all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
| Temperance Movement | campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. |
| representative government | a system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| republic | a nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them |
| house of burgesses | the first representative assembly in the new world. In the colony of Virginia |
| 3 branches of government | legislative (makes the laws), judicial (interprets the laws), and executive (enforces the laws) |
| checks and balances | a system set up by the Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to check, or control, the actions of other branches |
| free enterprise | the freedom of private buisnesses |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
| federalsim | the sharing of power between the states and the national government |
| separation of powers | a system in which each branch of government has its own powers |
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