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| Who did Columbus ask for money? |
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| Where did Columbus say he would find? |
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| Where did he actually reach? |
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| What was the first English colony? |
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| Where were the merchants heading and why? |
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| across the alantic to ship back valuables |
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| Why did they name the town Jamestown? |
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| Who was involved in the French and Indian war and what was the fight about? |
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| France and Indian fought together against Britin for power. |
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| How many british soilders were killed? |
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| 2/3rds of the 1,400 solders. Washington led them back as a hero. |
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| what day was the declaration of independance signed? |
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| how many people signed the declaration? |
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| how many people approved the declaration? |
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| what is the importance of the constitutional convention and the creation of the constitution? |
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| Freed america from great Britain and led to a good goverment which we still have |
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| War of 1812: who was it between? |
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| US and britan because they failed to withdraw from america's land. |
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| How did the war of 1812 end? |
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| A peace treaty was signed in 1815 in Europe |
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| What was the problem in the trail of tears? |
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| The population of georgia was increasin and the western pushed the settelers causing the creek to leave. Andre Jackson forced them to move Natives to the west. 1,000 natives died. |
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| why is the trail of tears important? |
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| It was the longest battle between natives and north america. |
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| How did the mexican-american war result in? |
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| Mexico lost almost half of their land. Dynamic and politically important |
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| In uncle toms cabin, whoo was involved and what did they do? |
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| Josiah Henson helped slaves and escaped to Canada. He bought land in Canada and sold lumber to the USA and to great Britain. Hariet Tubman helped 120 slaves escape, |
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| What year was Abraham Lincoln elected? |
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| What speech/document did Abraham present that banned slavery? |
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| Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| What was different about Abraham lincoln? |
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| in 1861 when the cival war began, what side wanted slavery and what didn't? |
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| The south, the Confederacy wanted slavery and the south- the union did not. |
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| How many borderline states were there and what were they? |
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| Four. Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and Missouri. |
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| Where did the cival war begin? |
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| Fort Sumter in south carolina |
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| North won and got rid of slavery. |
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