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| The first successful colony in America? |
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| Founded by Martin Luther, he nailed his complaints against the Catholic church door and argued that God's word was expressed only through the bible. |
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| Why was the Plymouth Bay colony established? |
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| a group of separatists in Holland came for religious freedom. (1620) |
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| New England Confederation |
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| formed in 1643, made only of Puritan colonies for protection from outside attack |
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| Pennsylvania, why was it founded and by who? |
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| A group of quakers, headed by William Penn, who was given the territory because the king owed his dad a large debt. |
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| workers brought in from England to work on farms, in exchange for trans-atlantic passage. They were eventually given their freedom along w/ few other things as they went on their way. |
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| Reason for the rise of slavery in the colonies around the 1680's |
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| wages were raising in England so not as many indentured servants were interested in coming over to America |
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| The New England Family in colonial days |
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| men often died young, widows were given the rights to inherit land from their dead husbands |
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| treaty between the U.S. and Britain that gave the U.S. the right to build the Panama Canal without British Interference |
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| Gentlemen's Agreement (1908) |
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| Japanese agreed to restrict emigration of Japanese workers to United States if Roosevelt pressured California to repeal segregation laws |
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| not about slavery in Nebraska, balanced slave and free states |
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| Factor in decline of the Whig Party |
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| the Know Nothing Party (nativists that were scared that U.S. was being overtaken by Irish Catholic immigrants |
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| written by Stephen A. Douglas, declared popular soverinity |
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| did not attempt to reconcile popular soverinity with Dred Scott decision |
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| ruled that any people brought into the country of African Descent could not be citizens and congress could not go act against slavery |
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| tried to arm slaves for a rebellion but failed |
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| Lincoln said slavery would not expand to new territories; republicans won presidency; NOT CONGRESS neither won popular vote, several southern states seceeded after election because of fear Lincoln would abolish slavery |
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| North advantages in Civil War |
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| superior railroad, navy, could produce more, and had an agreement on war aims |
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| original Union Strategy in Civil War |
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| to bockade and control Missippi (anaconda method), and keep border states that had factories |
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