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Who:Old & New Worlds
What: An exchange of animals, plants, and goods.
When: 1492
Where: All over East & West Hemispheres
Why: to obtain needed goods |
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Who: Settlers of the New World
What: America's first stettlement
When: 1607
Where: Virginia
Why: To settle in the NW |
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Who:Puritans
What: a settlement for Puritans
When: 1630
Where: Massachusets
Why: religous freedom |
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Who: America, Europe, Africa
What: Trading of goods, animals,slaves, and plants
When: 16th century- 19th century
Where: NA, E, AFRICA
Why: to obtain needed goodss/ slaves |
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Who: Europe
What: Advances in science and religion
When: 1700's
Where: Europe
Why: the scientific revolution brought on new ideas |
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| when a country exports more than it imports |
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Who: William Penn
What: Founded PENNsylvania
When: 1681
Where: born in England
Why: moved to A for religious freedom |
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Who: Roger williams
What: founded Rd. Island
When: 1644
Where: from Massachusetts
Why:founded RI for separation of Church and State |
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Who: Britain & Colonies
What: Britan secluded the colonies
When: 1690-1760
Where: A. & GB
Why:Britain was more concerned with own country |
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Who: British Soldiers, Colonists
What: Soliders could stay in colonists house, and the colonists had to provide food.
When: 1765
Where: Colonies
Why: GB didnt want to have to pay for soldier housing |
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Who: colonies & GB
What: Tax on every sheet of paper
When: 1765
Where: Colonies
Why: GB needed money, so taxed colonists |
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Who: GB & colonies
What: Colonists could not cross border (APPALACIAN MTNS)
When: 1763
Where: NA
Why: to prevent colonists from expanding and leaving GB control |
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Who: proposed by BEN FRANKLIN
What: the first attempt at unifying the colonies.
When: 1754
Where: Albany, NY
Why: To stand up against GB |
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Who: author: Thomas Payne
What: A book
When: Pub. 1776
Where: Colonies
Why: openly wanting independace |
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Who: colonists & GB
What: a battle
When:1702
Where: By the Hudson River
Why: independance |
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Who: Colonist & GB
What: the battle that ENDED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
When: 1781
Where: Yorktown
Why: independance |
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Who: Colonists & GB
What: A battle; also where the colonists ALMOST gave up
When: 1777
Where: Valley Forge
Why: Independance |
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Who: Europe & Americas
What: increased religous participation (scared people into religion)
When: 1725
Where: Europe & Americas
Why: new religions, increase in churches |
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Who: GB & France
What: A war
When: 1754-1763
Where: America
Why: territory |
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Who: written by colonists
What: 1st governing document of Plymouth colony
When: 1620
Why: to keep order in the new world |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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Who: Citizens of America
What: 1st Constitution of USA
When: 1777
Where: United States
Why: to set how the government will run |
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| Declaration of Independance |
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Who: Colonists & GB
What: Declaring independance
When: 1776
Where: USA
Why: Colonists had decided it was time to be independant |
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Who: Women of America
What: Women's rights convention
When: 1848
Where: New York
Why: Women wanted rights |
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Who: James Madison
What: 4th President, philosopher
When: 1751- 1856
Where:born in Virginia
Why: N/A... |
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Who: escaping slaves and whites
What: a series of paths and safehouses
When: 19th Century
Where:Throughout the US to Canada
Why: slaves wanted freedom, people were beginning to agree with them |
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| Constitutional Convention |
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Who: James Madison, Aleander Hamilton
What: to revise the Articles of Confederation
When: 1775
Where: Piladelphia, Pennsylvania
Why: to revise and create a Constitution |
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| The Second Constitutional Convention |
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Who: Alexander Hamilton James Madison
What: a meeting of the states
When: 1787
Where: Phylidelphia, Pennsylvania
When: 1787
Why: to create and revise a constitution |
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Who: Gen.s Lee & McClellan
What: a civil war battle
When: 1862
Where: Sharpsburg, Maryland
Why: freedom for South |
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WHo: Gen.s Grant & Sherman
What: Seige of Vicksburg
When:1863
Where: Mississippi
Why: Southern Freedom |
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Who: Grant
What: civil war general, 18th president
When: 1822-1885
Where: born in Ohio
Why:N/A |
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Who: Robert E. Lee
What: civil war general, post war icon
When: 1807-1870
Where: born in Virginia
Why:N/A |
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Who: William T. Sherman
What: Civil war General, served under Ulysses S. Grant
When: 1820-1891
Where: born in Ohio
Why: N/A |
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Who: Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson
What: trying to rebuild America (mainly South)
When: 1863-1877
Where: All over US
Why: to maintain unity |
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| prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude |
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| nobody can be denied life, liberty, and property. |
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| No citizen can be denied the right to vote |
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Who: Northerners and Southerners
What: limited the rights and civil liberties of blacks.
When: 1866
Where: United states
Why: many whites didnt want to accept blacks as equals |
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Who: Abraham Lincoln, freed blacks
What: medical care & food
When: 1865
Where: all over US
Why: to help slaves & refugees |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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Who: Abraham Lincoln
What: freed 3.1 million slaves
When: 1862-1863
Where: United States
Why:Lincoln knew slavery was wrong and wanted to fix it |
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Who: North and South
What: Nickname for the North by South
When: 1865
Why: Northeners were moving to the South and the Southerners didnt like it |
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Who: Nat Turner
What: a slave, leads slave rebellion
When: 1831
Where: United States, mainly South
Why: to try to gain freedom for slaves |
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Who: Dred Scott
What: sued for being owned in a slave-free state
When: 1831
Where: US Supreme Court
Why: Law said he was in a free state, but he was still considered a slave |
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Who: Sen. John J. Crittenden
What: a comprimise that allowed slaver
When: 1860
Where: United States
Why: wanted to reestablish the Missouri Compromise 36' 30' line, to try and resove the US Secession crisis |
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Who: Abraham Lincoln
What: offered 160 acres to anyone who hasnt gone against the union
When: 1862
Where: the West
Why: to expand the North, so the South couldnt claim more land |
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| Northerners with Southern sympathies |
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Who: Andrew Jackson
What: surrounded himselfwith people who supported him, fired all government workers and replaced them with followers
When: 1829
Where: US
Why: To attempt to control the government |
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