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| A Spanish Conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542 and was the first documented European to visit the Grand Canyon. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Hernan Cortes
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| Landed in mainland North America (Florida) | show 🗑
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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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| Spanish Explorer who set out on 3 year voyage around the world. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Sir Francis Drake
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| show | Sir Francis Drake
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| Mayor of Plymouth, led the second circumnavigation trip from 1577-1580. | show 🗑
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| show | John Smith
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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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| 1535 French Explorer who searched for a NW passage to China. | show 🗑
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| , French explorer who mapped much of Northeast of North America and started settlement in Quebec. | show 🗑
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| "The Father of New France" | show 🗑
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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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| show | Queen Isabella
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| Sailed for Cathay (China) in 1492 in the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. | show 🗑
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| show | San Salvador(present-day Bahamas)
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| First person to realize that the Americas were separate from Asia. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Giovanni Da Verazanno
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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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| Cuzco is the capital | show 🗑
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| They dominated northern Mexico | show 🗑
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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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| show | a kiva
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| show | Anasazi
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| show | Mound Builders
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| show | the Adena
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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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| show | Idaho/Oregon (Northwest)
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| Where did the Pawnee tribe live | show 🗑
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| show | Northeast/upstate New York
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| Where did the Cherokee tribe live | show 🗑
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| The first settlers of the Americas. Nomadic hunter groups | show 🗑
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| Who settled on the Gulf Coast | show 🗑
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| Consisted primarily of forts and fur trading. Slow growth due to harsh climate, disease and strict emigration rules of the Mother Nation. | show 🗑
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| 1534 explored by Cartier. 1608 founded by Champlain | show 🗑
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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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| Name five reasons Jamestown failed | show 🗑
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| Was formed with a charter from King James I in 1606 | show 🗑
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| What company was responsible for establishing Jamestown settlement. Used indentured settlers and started the headright system. | show 🗑
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| In 1606, King James I authorized groups set up as joint-stock companies to colonize North America. | show 🗑
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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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| Who was a young daughter of (Wahunsunacock) the Powhatan chief, served as a valuable intermediary between the settlers and the tribe members. | show 🗑
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| show | Pocahontas
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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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| show | Plymouth
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| show | Plymouth
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| show | They were upset with the church and King James(Jon Robinson, William Brewster, and William Bradford).
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| show | Puritans
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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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| What act is freedom of religion in Baltimore to anyone professing to believe in Jesus Christ | show 🗑
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| show | Great Migration
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| show | Connecticut and Rhode Island
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| show | Pilgrims
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| Another name for Pilgrims | show 🗑
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| A term used to describe the puritan’s beliefs which included duty, godliness, hard work, and honesty. | show 🗑
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| show | Maryland
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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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| Maryland and Virginia also called | show 🗑
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| show | Climate/land
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| show | Carolina
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| Barbados became over populated and many migrated to Carolina, bringing slaves and plantations. | show 🗑
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| Land that was awarded to several proprietors for their loyalty during the French wars. | show 🗑
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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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| Founded the Pennsylvania colony. Committed Quaker. | show 🗑
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| show | William Penn
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| show | Quakers
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| show | New Jersey
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| show | Rhode Island
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| show | New Netherland
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| The New Netherland made-up | show 🗑
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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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| show | Headright system
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| Individuals who agreed to serve a master for a set number of years in exchanged for the cost of boat transport to America. | show 🗑
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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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| Florida, California, Texas, and parts of the American West was part of | show 🗑
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| show | Conquistadores
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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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| show | Richard Hakluyt
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| show | Requerimiento
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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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| What is the Sugar Act | show 🗑
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| show | 1765 it required a stamp, or watermark, on virtually all paper and paper products sold in the colonies: newspapers, deeds and other legal documents, diplomas, licenses, passports,even playing cards to show that tax was paid on that product.
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| Meeting of colonial delegates in New York City in October 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, a law passed by Parliament to raise revenue in America. | show 🗑
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| show | Townsend Duties
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| What is the Declaratory Acts | show 🗑
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| show | Coercive Acts
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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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| show | Quebec Act
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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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| In response to a British attack on an American warship off the coast of Virginia, this 1807 law prohibited foreign commerce. | show 🗑
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| show | Boston Tea Party
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| Closed Boston ports to trade until destroyed tea was paid for. | show 🗑
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| show | Massachusetts Government Act
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| show | Quartering Act
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| show | Common Sense
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| show | The Revolutionary War
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| What legislation angered American colonist to the point that John Adams remarked, "The pot was set to boil" | show 🗑
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| show | “The shot heard round the world”
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| show | Lexington Battle
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| The “shot heard round the world” was fired at | show 🗑
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| show | Lexington Battle
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| show | Concord
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| The site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777-1778 in the American Revolutionary War | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Yorktown
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| show | Siege of Yorktown
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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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| This meeting took place in Philadelphia in May 1775, in the midst of rapidly unfolding military events. It organized the continental Army and commissioned George Washington to lead it, then began requisitioning men and supplies for the war effort | show 🗑
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| show | Articles of Confederation
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| show | Declaration of Independence
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| show | Treaty of Paris
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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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| show | General LaFayette
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| Who argued that people have natural rights - life, liberty, and property | show 🗑
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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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| Which President admitted Maine in 1820 as a free state | show 🗑
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| show | Then Monroe Doctrine
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| show | Benjamin Franklin
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| show | Benjamin Franklin
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| show | George Washington
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| 2nd president of U.S. (1797-1801) after serving as the 1st vice president for 2 terms | show 🗑
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| Which President felt that one mark of a free society was the ability of anyone accused of a crime to have the benefit of good legal counsel | show 🗑
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| show | John Adams
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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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| Who was the President of the MA senate-“Father of the American Revolution” proposed the meeting of the continental Congress and signed the Declaration in 1776. | show 🗑
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| show | Ethan Allen
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| Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense which was the first published call for an end to British rule of the American colonies. | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| What exploration of the Far West brought back a wealth of scientific data about the country and its resources. | show 🗑
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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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| In this 1803 landmark decision, the Supreme Court first asserted the power of judicial review by declaring an act of Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1789, unconstitutional. (Unconstitutional to force appointments) | show 🗑
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| War between Britain and the United States. U.S. justifications for war included British violations of American maritime rights, impressments of seamen, provocation of the Indians, and defense of national honor. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Indian Removal Act
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| show | Fugitive slave act, Presidential election of 1860, Kansas-Nebraska Act-Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott case
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| Which President served during the civil war and ended slavery | show 🗑
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| show | Emancipation Proclamation
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| show | Civil War
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| What was 1863-Lincoln’s speech where he defined American democracy, sanctified the war for the Union, and described America as “a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” | show 🗑
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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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| On December 10, 1898, the signing of what Treaty gave the U.S. control of Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam | show 🗑
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| show | Panama Canal
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| What was this called: International negotiations backed by the threat of force. The phrase comes from a proverb quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, who said that the United States should “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” | show 🗑
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| What act strengthen the powers of the interstate commerce | show 🗑
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| show | Square Deal
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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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| January 1918 speech delivered to Congress. Intended to assure the country that WWI was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. | show 🗑
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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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| show | WWI
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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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| What was FDR’s program of legislation to combat the Great Depression. It included measures aimed at relief, reform, and recovery. | show 🗑
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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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| show | WWII
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| Which President used the first atomic bomb | show 🗑
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| On which two city's did the first use of atomic bomb-1945- Result – Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore WWI. | show 🗑
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| show | Desegregating the military
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| show | 5 Star General in U.S. Army
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| Which President In 1956, signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, which authorized the Interstate Highway System | show 🗑
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| show | 1959 and Dwight Eisenhower
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| show | Military industrial complex
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| What war was U.S. and Soviet Union-conflict of powers- political, economical and ideological. | show 🗑
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| What President challenged scientist to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade | show 🗑
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| show | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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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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| Which President initiated diplomatic opening to China | show 🗑
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| What incident was it when several men were caught breaking into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The burglars were linked to a Nixon fundraising organization called the Committee to Re-elect the President | show 🗑
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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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| The day of what president's presidential inauguration in 1980 52 U.S. hostages were released after 444 days of captivity in Iran. | show 🗑
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| What President hastened the end of the cold War and reduced federal economic control. | show 🗑
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| show | Reagonomics
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| show | William Bradford
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