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October 12,1492   Christopher Columbus discovered New World  
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Indentured servant   A laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for a passage to America  
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William Penn   The founder of Pennsylvania which put Quaker ideals of tolerance and equality into practice.  
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Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut   The first written Constitution in america which described the organization of representative government in detail  
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New England Colonies   Founded for religious freedom. Includes Connecticut,Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.  
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Middle Colonies   Culturally diverse region of the British Colonies.Includes Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.  
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Southern Colonies   Founded mainly for profit.Includes Georgia, N & S Carolina,Virginia and Maryland.  
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Great Awakening   A religious revival that created a new emphasis on education,promotes the belief that all men are equal and makes americans more willing to question authority  
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john Paul Jones   American Revolutionary naval officer.  
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Marquis de Lafayette   French noble who served as George Washington's aide and led Patriot troops at Yorktown  
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Popular Sovereignty   Means that the people are the most important source of governmental power.  
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George Mason   A member of the Constitutional Convention who refused to sign the document without a bill of rights  
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McCulloch v Maryland   Was an 1819 Supreme Court decision that held that the necessary and proper clause allows Congress to do more than the Constitution expressly allows it to do  
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John Adams   Boston lawyer and patriot who became 2nd President of U.S.  
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John Marshall   Famous U.S. Supreme Court Chief justice who set out the principles of Judicial Review  
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War of 1812   Fought between U.S. and Great Britain over freedom of the sea and the issue of impressment  
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Nullification   The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal.  
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Spoils System   The practice of handing out government jobs to supporters and replacing government employees with the winning candidates supporters  
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Andrew Jackson   Leader of the original Democratic Party and "President of the people".Responsible for the Trail Of Tears which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.  
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James Monroe   Author of the Monroe Doctrine,  
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Monroe Doctrine   Foreign policy statement which stated -1) the U.S. would not interfere with European affairs , and 2)that the western hemisphere was closed to colonization or interference by European nations.  
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Mexican War   conflict which occurred after the annexation of Texas, from which the U.S. seized the southwest territory inc.New Mexico , Arizona and California.  
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Gibbons v Ogden   1824 Supreme Court decision that ruled that only Congress can regulate commercial activity that has both intrastate and interstate dimensions.  
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abolitionist   a person who wanted to end slavery in the U.S.  
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civil disobedience   the refusal to obey a government law as a means of passive resistance because of ones moral belief.  
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Henry David Thoreau   The author of Civil Disobedience and Walden Pond, who refused to pay his taxes to protest the Mexican War.  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.  
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Second Great Awakening   wave of religious fervor that inspired missionary work and social reform movements.  
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cotton gin   invention by Eli Whitney that sped up the process of cleaning cotton fibers  
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steamboat   Robert Fulton's steamboat revolutionized transportation and trade in the U.S.  
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Bessemer Steel Process   discovered by both William Kelly and Henry Bessemer is a process that uses blasts of cold air to burn off impurities from heated iron to improve steel production  
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John C.Calhoun   S.Carolina Senator who spoke for the South before and during the Civil War  
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Henry Clay   Kentucky Senator known as The Great Compromiser.He proposed the American System and Compromise of 1850  
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Daniel Webster   Massachusetts Senator who spoke for the North and the preservation of the Union  
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Frederick Douglass   former slave who became the best known black abolitionist in the country, and founded the North Star newspaper.  
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Harriet Tubman   escaped slave who became a conductor on the underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom.  
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Dred Scott v Sanford   1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled slaves were property and not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories  
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Jefferson Davis   President of the Confederacy during the Civil War  
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Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address   stated that "no state can lawfully get out of the Union, but pledged there would be no war unless the South started it.  
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Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address   was meant to heal and restore the country after 4 years of Civil War  
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Reconstruction   the reorganization and rebuilding of the former confederate States after the Civil War  
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13th Amendment   abolished slavery  
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14th amendment   guarantees citizenship and rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States  
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15th Amendment   Guarantees the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race. (excluding women).  
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