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| show | Francisco Vasguez de Coronado
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| A Spanish Conquistador, who was in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola. | show 🗑
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| show | Hernan Cortes
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| Lived in Mexico. Overthrew the Aztec empires and claimed Mexico for Spain in 1521. | show 🗑
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| show | Juan Ponce de Leon
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| Subdued Incas in Peru | show 🗑
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| Discovered the Pacific Ocean by crossing the isthmus of Panama in 1513 | show 🗑
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| show | Ferdinand Magellan
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| show | Hernando de Soto
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| First European to discover North America, in 1497. Explored East Coast of North America. | show 🗑
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| An English privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I awarded him a knighthood in 1581. | show 🗑
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| He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. | show 🗑
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| Mayor of Plymouth, led the second circumnavigation trip from 1577-1580. | show 🗑
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| Founder and leader of Jamestown Virginia. Life was saved by Pocahontas. | show 🗑
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| An English Sea Explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he was set adrift, following a mutiny. | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Hudson
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| show | Sir Walter Raleigh
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| show | Jacques Cartier
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| show | Jacques Cartier
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| show | Samuel de Champlain
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| show | Samuel de Champlain
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| show | Sieur de La Salle
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| He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. | show 🗑
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| show | Pinta, Nina, and the Santa Maria.
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| Who gave the ships to Columbus | show 🗑
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| show | Christopher Columbus
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| show | San Salvador(present-day Bahamas)
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| show | Amerigo Vespucci
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| America is named after this man | show 🗑
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| First European to sight New York | show 🗑
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| Explored Northeast America looking for Northwest Passage in 1524 | show 🗑
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| The Old and the New Worlds that resulted in this ecological revolution | show 🗑
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| The exchange of plants, animals, culture, and diseases between Europe and the Americas form first contact throughout the era of exploration | show 🗑
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| show | Pre-colonial Civilizations
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| show | Inca
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| show | Aztec
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| Who believed that the sacrificial victims provided strength to the sun god, Huitzilopochtli. | show 🗑
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| Tenochtitlan is the capital of | show 🗑
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| show | Maya
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| Who scribes developed a complex writing system using glyphs (pictures)--the only complete writing system in the Americas before the Europeans came | show 🗑
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| An underground chamber known as and served religious or ceremonial purposes | show 🗑
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| show | Anasazi
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| show | Mound Builders
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| the earliest Mound Builders | show 🗑
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| show | Adena and Hopewell
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| The submerged area under the Bering sea that was thought to have been a land bridge between Asia and North America. | show 🗑
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| Where did the Nez Perce tribe live | show 🗑
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| show | Nebraska/Platte River
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| Where did the Iroquois tribe live | show 🗑
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| show | Southeast, North and South Carolina’s, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee
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| The first settlers of the Americas. Nomadic hunter groups | show 🗑
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| show | Olmecs
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| show | Early French Colonies
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| show | Quebec
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| 1682 explored by La Salle, Cavelier, and de Tonty claimed the area for France. (La Salle named the area Louisiana) | show 🗑
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| show | Early Dutch Colonies
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| Settled for many desperate reasons including religious freedom and commerce, trade, and as penal colonies. | show 🗑
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| 1585 first attempted English settlement, led by Sir Walter Raleigh, colony was lost in 1590. | show 🗑
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| Founded in 1607, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Named in honor of the king. Built by Virginia Company | show 🗑
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| show | lack of food, Indian attacks, malaria/disease, concentrated on looking for gold, and leader did not respond to challenges of the wilderness.
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| show | Virginia Company
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| show | Virginia Company
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| show | The London Company and the Plymouth Company
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| Leader who tried to get Jamestown started. He was saved by Pocahontas | show 🗑
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| show | John Rolf
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| show | Pocahontas
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| Who marries John Rolfe, and saves John Smith from execution. | show 🗑
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| An English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century. Settled by the Puritans, who arrived in great numbers between 1630 and 1640, dominated the region. (1630 Founded by Puritans led by John Winthrop) | show 🗑
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| show | Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
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| The landing site of the Mayflower and pilgrims | show 🗑
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| The oldest municipality in New England | show 🗑
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| Why the puritans leave England?(and three leaders) | show 🗑
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| Who wanted to eliminate all unscriptural elements from the church, fled England in 1630, on the Mayflower and founded Massachusetts Bay Colony. | show 🗑
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| What was the agreement among the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620 to create a civil government at Plymouth Colony | show 🗑
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| show | Toleration Act
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| show | Great Migration
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| show | Connecticut and Rhode Island
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| The members of the religious group that founded Plymouth Colony were known as | show 🗑
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| show | Separatists
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| show | New England Way
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| 1632 founded by George and Celcius Calvert (Catholics) committed to Religious Toleration, but had many difficulties. | show 🗑
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| founder of Maryland Colony, 1632, Roman Catholic. Father and son. | show 🗑
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| Catholic churches that take lead and direction from the Pope in Rome | show 🗑
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| show | Chesapeake colonies
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| show | Climate/land
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| 1663 Land grants awarded to several loyal proprietors, Cooper persuaded investments and sent over 300 colonists | show 🗑
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| Barbados became over populated and many migrated to Carolina, bringing slaves and plantations. | show 🗑
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| show | Land grants
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| 1682 founded by Quakers led by William Penn, sought simplicity, equality, and inner light. Primary export was grain. | show 🗑
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| show | William Penn
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| Who received the land from Charles II as settlement of a debt the king owed to his father. | show 🗑
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| show | Quakers
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| Granted to Sir George Cateret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton by James II, Duke of York. Having two landowners caused much confusion to the growing colony. | show 🗑
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| show | Rhode Island
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| The Dutch founded | show 🗑
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| show | New York and New Jersey
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| 1732 founded by General Oglethorpe as a military establishment and refuge between Carolina and the Spanish in Florida. | show 🗑
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| founder of Georgia, Philanthropist and also banned slavery in the colony, but the prohibition was lifted in 1750. He intended the colony to be a refuge for English debtors. A British general. | show 🗑
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| System of land distribution in which settlers were grated a fifty-acre plot of land from the colonial government for each servant or dependent they transported to the New World. The system encouraged the recruitment of a large servile labor force. | show 🗑
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| show | Indentured servitude
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| Who was the dominant form of labor in the Chesapeake colonies before slavery. | show 🗑
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| Had qualities of centralized governmental control, military conquest, and religious missionary efforts. Spread quickly through Latin and South America and held many outpost through the North American West. | show 🗑
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| show | New Spain
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| Sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of noble birth, who subdued the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire in the New World. | show 🗑
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| show | Conquistadores
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| show | Spanish Conquest
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| An exploitative labor system that rewarded conquistadores in the New World by granting them local villages and control over native labor | show 🗑
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| 1494-divides land up between Spain (New World) and Portugal (Africa) | show 🗑
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| Used to describe Spaniards oppression of Native Americans | show 🗑
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| show | Protestant Reformation
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| The author of "Voyages" an entrepreneurial vision of English settlement in the New World. | show 🗑
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| It was a document read to natives declaring that Jesus Christ, and that the pope had power to rule over all the earth | show 🗑
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| show | Conflicts between colonies and England, violated compact between colonists and Britain, wanted to separate from England right to liberty and pursuit of happiness.
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| What was the Missouri Compromise | show 🗑
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| What was also known in America as the French and Indian War | show 🗑
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| show | The Seven-Year War
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| show | Proclamation of 1763
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| show | 1764 imposed a tax on foreign sugar and molasses, and wine, cloth and other goods brought into the colonies.
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| What is the Stamp Act | show 🗑
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| show | Stamp Act Congress
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| 1767- a series of laws passed by Parliament that suspended New York’s assembly and established taxes on good brought into the British colonies (The laws imposed duties on tea, lead, glass, and dyes for paint.) | show 🗑
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| What is the Declaratory Acts | show 🗑
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| the four pieces of legislation passed by Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party were meant to punish the colonies | show 🗑
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| Also known as the Coercive Acts | show 🗑
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| 1773 gave the company a monopoly on tea sales to the North American colonies and greatly reduced the tax on the high-quality tea.(gave the British East India Company control over the American tea trade, taxing the colonists for British tea) | show 🗑
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| extended the southern boundary of the province to the Ohio River and granted full religious freedom to Catholics | show 🗑
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| show | The Sons of Liberty
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| show | Boston Massacre
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| show | Navigation Acts
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| show | Embargo Act
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| 1773—Sons of liberty organized a revolt against the Tea Act dumping 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor | show 🗑
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| show | The Boston Port Act
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| show | Massachusetts Government Act
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| required to provide quarters for British soldiers | show 🗑
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| show | Common Sense
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| show | The Revolutionary War
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| show | Stamp Act
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| show | “The shot heard round the world”
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| show | Lexington Battle
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| show | Lexington
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| show | Lexington Battle
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| show | Concord
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| show | Valley Forge
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| Last Virginia battle in the American Revolution, British surrendered. | show 🗑
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| The last major land battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis surrendered along with 8,000 troops | show 🗑
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| A meeting of delegates from twelve colonies in Philadelphia in 1774, the Congress denied Parliament authority to legislate for the colonies, condemned British actions toward the colonies, & created the Continental Association. | show 🗑
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| show | Second Continental Congress
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| Ratified in 1781, this document was the United States’ first constitution, providing a framework for national government. The articles sharply limited central authority by denying the national government any taxation or coercive powers. | show 🗑
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| July 4th, 1776--13 colonies declaring their independence from British rule. Written by Thomas Jefferson | show 🗑
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| Formally ended the America Revolutionary war between Britain and the 13 colonies of the United States. Transferred all land east of the Mississippi (excluding Florida) to the colonies. | show 🗑
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| Vice President of Jefferson. Third VP (tied with 73 electoral votes) Dueled Hamilton 1804 and killed him and when he left Washington, he became involved in treason and was arrested. | show 🗑
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| The midnight ride “the British are coming, the British are coming" 1735-1818 American silversmith and patriot. A prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. | show 🗑
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| French officer who fought for America in Revolutionary War. He Participated in the Continental Congress and served under George Washington at the Battle of Brandywine and at Valley Forge. He also had a part in the final battle of the war, Yorktown. | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| show | James Madison
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| Which President was the principal author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution. | show 🗑
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| the 5th president of the U.S. (1817-1825). Acquisition of Florida (1819) | show 🗑
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| show | James Monroe
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| show | James Monroe
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| show | Then Monroe Doctrine
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| show | Benjamin Franklin
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| Who inventor – lightning rod, the glass harmonica, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and flexible urinary catheter | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington
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| show | John Adams
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| show | John Adams
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| Which President was Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, author of the Constitution for the state of Massachusetts. | show 🗑
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| Who was the leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty urged colonists to resist British control and organized committees of correspondence in Boston. | show 🗑
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| show | Samuel Adams
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| Who was the American Revolutionary-leader of the “Green Mountain Boys” who were battling NY over New Hampshire land grants. Pushed for recognition of Vermont as a state. | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | Lewis and Clark expedition
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| What was the notions that people are self-sufficient and survive and thrive because of their own choices and energy are important in rural regions | show 🗑
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| Which President was able to reduce the national debt by a third, confront the extortionist Barbary Pirates | show 🗑
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| show | Marbury v. Madison
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| show | War of 1812
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| 7th president of the U.S. (1829-1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821) | show 🗑
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| Which President authorized Trail of Tears and the Indian Removal Act | show 🗑
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| show | Trail of Tears
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| 1830-The Act that authorized the president to negotiate treaties to purchase tribal lands in the east in exchange for lands further west, outside of existing U.S. state borders. | show 🗑
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| Which events fueled pre-civil war conflicts over slavery | show 🗑
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| Which President served during the civil war and ended slavery | show 🗑
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| What was in January 1863- legally freeing all African American slaves living in the Confederate states. | show 🗑
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| show | Civil War
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| show | Gettysburg Address
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| 26th President of the U.S. Youngest president in history (42) to become president after McKinley died from a gunshot wound that was a result of an assassination attempt | show 🗑
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| What war armed military conflict between Spain and the U.S. that took placed between April and August 1898, over the issues of the liberation of Cuba. | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty of Paris
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| show | Panama Canal
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| Which President purchased the Panama Canal | show 🗑
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| show | “Big Stick” diplomacy
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| show | Hepburn Act of 1906
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| What was aimed at helping middle class citizens | show 🗑
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| What President when it came to WWI he wanted to remain neutral but warned the Germans they would be held accountable for any loss of American lives | show 🗑
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| show | when the Germans decided to go back on the pledge to stop sinking merchant ships without warning.
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| show | Fourteen Points
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| This form of diplomacy proposed by Wilson stated that America should not get involved with foreign affairs. This idea, however, was changed throughout WWI and its main ideas were objected. | show 🗑
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| What war was sparked when the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia in June 1914. | show 🗑
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| What was the league that was the keystone of Wilson's peace plan, as it would provide a forum for countries to resolve international conflicts diplomatically | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | New Deal
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| What was a sequence of programs FDR initiated between 1933 and 1936 with the goal of giving work (relief) to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during the Great Depression. | show 🗑
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| What war was September 1939, Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland provoked declarations of war from Great Britain and France, and the U.S. began sending aid to their cause. | show 🗑
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| Which President used the first atomic bomb | show 🗑
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| show | Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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| show | Desegregating the military
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| What was Dwight Eisenhower in WWII | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| show | 1959 and Dwight Eisenhower
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| Term to warn about the danger of massive defense spending and the close relationship between the armed forces and the industrial corporations that supplied their weapons. | show 🗑
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| What war was U.S. and Soviet Union-conflict of powers- political, economical and ideological. | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| show | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Which president enacted policies providing political, economic, and military support for the unstable French-installed South Vietnamese government, sent 16,000 military advisors and U.S. Special Forces to the area. | show 🗑
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| show | Bay of Pigs Invasion
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| Which President started sending armed forces into Vietnam and had the Great Society program | show 🗑
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| show | supplied federal funding to school districts, set up a program for disadvantaged preschoolers, provided for federal intervention to protect African American registration and voting in 6 states, set up an insurance program for people over 65 years old
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| show | Nixon
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| show | Watergate
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| Who emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President. | show 🗑
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| What President hastened the end of the cold War and reduced federal economic control. | show 🗑
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| In who's version of supply-side economics, the reduction of taxes was supposed to stimulate the economy through the eventual trickle-down of wealth from the upper to the lower classes. | show 🗑
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| show | William Bradford
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