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| Established the first British Colony of Roanoke. 1587 The Colony failed |
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| Spanish Explorer. Conquest of Aztecs and Mexico 1519 |
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| Spanish Explorer. Landed in the Bahamas. Searching for gold and slaves. Credited for "discovering" the Americas. |
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| Spanish Explorer. First European to discover the Mississippi River. Lead to the Spanish Occupation of Florida. |
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| French Explorer. Explored and claimed for France the Area of Canada. |
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| Captain of The Virginia Company Ships from England, Established Jamestown. 1607 |
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| Plymouth Mass. Mayflower. Puritans. 1620. |
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| Historian that discusses the Founding Fathers as people with the highest aspirations of responsible and humane use of power. |
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| Early 20th Century Historian. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, suggests that the Economic Powers of the country set up the Constitution to protect their own interests. |
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| distinguished between natural property "the land" and artificial property created by legal privilege, ie. banking wealth. He saw the right to issue paper money as an indirect taxation on the people. |
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| 1607, Captain John Smith, First Successful British Colony. |
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| The First British Settlement in the Americas. Established by Sir Walter Raleigh |
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| 1620. Mayflower, John Winthrop, Puritans, City on the Hill, |
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| Established by Roger Williams after he split from John Winthrop and the Puritans. He paid the Native Americans for their land. He originated the idea of separation of Church and State. |
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| Carolina, unlike MA was established for the purpose of using the land to create wealth for the proprietors. It was settled by experienced colonizers from Barbados. |
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| Hero of the War of 1812, Governor of Michigan Territory, Indian fighter, Said that he didn't understand why the Indian's had not "improved" after 200 years of contact with the white man. |
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| Wrote "The Disinherited" about what removal of the native Americans meant to the Native Americans. |
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| Founder of the NAACP, Professor, wrote books about race relations in America in the early 20th Century. |
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| Studied whipping of slaves on one plantation in Louisiana and did a mathematical analysis that concluded that slaves were treated pretty well. In the 1970's. |
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| William Penn, Quakers, Allowed people form different cultures, religions and economic status to settle there. |
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| 13th Colony, Founded by James Oglethorpe with trustees to help people work off their debt in debtors prison. |
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| Founder of Rhode Island after a split with John Winthrop and the Puritans of the MA Bay Colony over the treatment of the Indians and the purpose of settlement. |
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| MA Bay Colony, believed that god could speak to an individual and did not have to be interpreted by the church, was put on trial for heresy, left the Colony for Rhode Island and was later murdered by Native Amercians on Long Island. |
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| One who believes that Christians are liberated from the observance of moral laws when God's grace is active. Ann Hutchinson was charged with this during her trial in MA. |
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| An movement begun in colonial America by German and Iris immigrants in the rural frontier, William Tennant, Education is the high road to heaven. |
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| Cotton Mather, falsely accused women were put on trial with very little evidence and executed if deemed to be practicing witchcraft. Colonial MA |
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| The idea that it is Anglo Saxons Destiny to occupy the whole continent of North America. |
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| A non-conformist movement that believed that everyone can be a minister and that any worshipful gathering of true Christians is equally legitimate |
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| Established the MA Bay Colony in 1620 under the leader ship of John Winthrop. They denied the Divine Right of Kings. |
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| Irish, french, Spanish in colonial America. The Pope is the central Authority. |
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| Natives of the Islands of the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Columbus encountered them on his first arrival into the new world. Later he and his followers destroyed their civilization. |
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| Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, First native American culture to have a written language, Engaged in passive resistance, later moved to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears |
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| Florida, South Georgia, Alabama, Chief Osceola, Fought and lost against Andrew Jackson. |
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| Mexico, Build Citys, Conquered by Cortes. |
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| Northeastern United States Indians, Encountered by Winthrop, |
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| Chief Tecumseh, wanted to unite the Indians against the whites. |
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| French and Indian War, Ohio Valley, student of Neolin, Pontiacs Rebellion Fort Detroit. |
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| Delaware, prophet, taught his people to reject alcohol, materialism, and polygamy |
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| Author of Common Sense, Friend of Ben Franklin, Believed in Democracy |
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| From Virginia, Give me liberty or give me death |
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| Boston MA, Sons of Liberty, Repeal of the Stamp Act, Leader of the Boston Tea Party. |
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| Developed the first successful Steamboat, |
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| free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Wrote a letter to Jefferson about the evils of Slavery. |
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| John Adams considered unconstitutional because it infringes upon the rights of free speech and States Rights. |
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| 1820 Prohibited slavery north of the 36/30, except within Missouri. |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| Ended the Mexican American War. 1848 |
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| The end of Reconstruction. |
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| said that further efforts by European governments to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the United States as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention |
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| ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants[2]—whether or not they were slaves—were not legal persons and could never be citizens of the United States, and that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. |
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| 1844 against Irish Catholics. |
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