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review for 4th Six Weeks

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date of Declaration of Independence   1776  
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date of the ratification of the Constitution   1787  
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date of the founding of Jamestown   1607  
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date of the signing of the Mayflower compact   1620  
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date of the Louisiana Purchase   1803  
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leader of the Sons of Liberty   Sam Adams  
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Author of Common Sense   Thomas Paine  
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Author of the Declaration odf Independence   Thomas Jefferson  
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Commander and chief of the American Revolution army   George washington  
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first Secretary of the Treasury   Alexander Hamilton  
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leader of the Democratic/Republican Party   Thomas Jefferson  
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leader of the Quakers   William Penn  
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reason for the Louisiana Purchase   access to Port of New Orleans  
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group of poeple who settled in Georgia   debtors  
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group of people who settled in Pennsylvania   Quakers  
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group of people who settled in Massachusetts   Puritans  
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Which document included the idea of self-rule?   Mayflower Compact  
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Which document was a list of greivances against Great Britain?   Declaration of Independence  
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Which document was the first constitution?   Articles of Confederation  
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What very early document, written in 1215 was a foundation for our constiution?   Magna Carta  
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Who bought the Louisiana Purchase?   Thomas Jefferson  
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What did George Washington warn against in his farewell address?   political parties and getting involved in European problems  
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Which battle began the Revolutionary war?   Lexington and Concord  
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Which battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War?   Saratoga  
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After which battle did Cornwallis surrendar to Washington?   Yorktown  
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What treaty ended the revolutionary War?   Treaty of Paris  
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How was the slave issue resolved in the Constitution?   3/5 compromise  
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How was the issue of representation resolved in the Consitution?   Great compromise----two houses--Senate and House of Representatives  
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What principle did the Marbury verses Madison case introduce?   Judicial review  
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mercantilism   a mother country's attempt to control the trade of her colonies  
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Federalsits   supported the Cosntitution  
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Anti-federalists   would not support the Constitution without a Bill of Rights  
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impressment   a major cause of the War of 1812  
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Proclamation of 1763   forbid colonists to cross the Appalachian Mountains  
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second amendment   the right to bare arms  
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5th amendment   due process  
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first amendment   freedom of speech, religion,press, assembly, and petition  
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tenth amendment   states' rights  
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8th amendment   no cruel and unusual punishment  
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3rd amendment   abolish the quartering Act  
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separation of powers   each branch of government has separate and equal powers  
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checks and balances   each branch of government "checks" over the others to assure no one branch becomes too powerful  
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federalism   sharing power between Federal and state governments  
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limited government   the government has "limits" ---they may not take away anyone's Constitutional rights  
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republicanism   we choose a representative to make our decisions in Congress  
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1861-65   Civil War  
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Westward Expansion   Manifest Destiny  
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cotton gin inventor   Eli Whitney  
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interchangeable parts inventor   Eli whitney  
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bloodles revolution   industrial revolution  
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Abraham Lincoln   president during Civil War  
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Ulysses S. Grant   Union general  
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Robert E. Lee   Confederate general  
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Jefferson Davis   Confederate president  
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Dorothea Dix   reformed mental health institutions  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   organized Senecca Falls Convention  
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Frederick Douglas   African American abolitionist  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin  
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Harriet Tubman   conductor of Underground Railroad  
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William Lloyd Garisson   wrote the Liberator  
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Horrace Mann   reformed public education  
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13th amendment   abolished slavery  
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14th amendment   gave citizenship to African Americans  
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15th amendment   gave voting rights to African Americans  
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Dred Scott Case   repealed the Missouri Compromise  
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