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| Advanced meso-American culture known for architecture, astronomy, and math |
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| Explorer funded by Spain who discovered a new world |
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| Attacked abuses of Catholic Church leading to Protestant Reformation |
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| Religious radicals who hoped to purge the English Church of impurities |
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| 1st representative assembly in colonial Virginia |
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| System for granting 50 acres to settlers in Virginia in return for passage paid to the colony |
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| Bloodless coup in England bringing William and Mary to the throne |
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| Puritan woman who preached her own ideas and was expelled from the church |
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| Intellectual movement stressing the power of human reasoning |
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| Largest slave revolt in the colonial era |
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| Proclamation Line of 1763 |
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| Prohibited white settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains |
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| Incident in which 5 colonists were killed by British troops causing anti-British propaganda |
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| British response to the Boston Tea Party closing the port of Boston and other measures |
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| Turning point of war as American forces captured a British army encouraging France to aid the American cause |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| 1st national constitution forming a weak federal government |
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| Rebellion of Massachusetts farmers over debt causing fears of more protests |
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| Madison’s plan for 3 branches of government |
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| Essays written by Hamilton, Madison and Jay promoting the new constitution |
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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| Legislation detailing the formation of states from western territories |
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| Those who opposed to the new constitution out of fear of centralized power |
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| Specific statements of individual rights amended to the Constitution to secure adoption |
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| Co-founder of women’s rights movement and the Seneca Falls Convention |
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| Ideology that believed slavery to be immoral |
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| Escaped slave who became a black abolitionist |
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| Escaped slave who returned to the South to help other slaves escape via the Underground Railroad |
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| Leader of sensational slave revolt in VA |
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| Belief that it was God’s will for the US to spread across the North American continent |
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| Clay’s multi-part compromise allowing California into the Union as a free state |
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| Part of the Comp of 1850 denying trial by jury to escaped slaves and requiring citizens to assist federal marshals in returning escapees |
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| British economic policy of support for a favorable balance of trade |
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| 1st major depression in the US starting years of boom and bust |
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| Washington’s Farewell Address |
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| Presidential warning against the influence of political parties |
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| Practice of awarding public office to political supporters |
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| Controversial idea that new states entering Union could vote the state to become slave or free |
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| A popular novel that created emotional support for the cause of abolitionism |
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| Act repealing Missouri Compromise and allowing Kansas and Nebraska to determine if they were slave or free |
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| Federal arsenal attacked unsuccessfully by John Brown intensifying sectionalism |
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| Charleston, SC fort attacked by Southern forces and the first battle of the Civil War |
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| Anti-slavery wing of Republican Party who advocated rights for freedmen |
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| Made former slaves citizens with equal protection under the law |
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| Organization designed to proved care for war refugees and help blacks move from slavery to freedom |
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| Indian religious leader urging tribes to return to traditional ways |
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| Process of forcing Indians in the Southeast to move westward |
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| 1st Supreme Court case in which a law of Congress was declared unconstitutional |
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| Set southern borders of US and secured trading rights through the Mississippi River |
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| A foreign policy statement that proposed non-interference by British and American forces in their respective foreign affairs |
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