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First people to visit Americas
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Russian Siberians
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1st group of people found
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Clovis Point
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Disconnects America from Eurasia and creates this
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Ice Age; Bering Strait
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Eskimos/Inuits
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Arctic/Subarctic
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Fishermen; cedar plank houses, pit houses and potluck
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Pacific Northwest
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California, Idaho, Utah..Chumash Culture.
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Far West
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Part desert, Part forest. Dominated by Paitues, Utes and Shoshoni.
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Great Basin
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So Cal, Arizona, So Nevada, Guatemala. Mayans and Aztecs (from Toltec).
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Southwest
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Established extensive trade networks, advanced agriculture, built dams/reservoirs.
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Anasazi
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Villages 25-150 people
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Eastern Woodlands
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Vast trade network
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Adena culture-Hopewell culture
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Long distance traders. Canokia- major trading center. Monsmound also.
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Mississippian culture
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Rats cause plague in:
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1400s
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Created moveable type for printing press
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Gutenberg
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Age of Exploration
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1450-1650
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Navigator who started the Naval Institute open to all Europeans
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Patrick Henry
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Ferdinand and Isabella marry uniting what two major principalities
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Castille and Aragon
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Iberia
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Portugal and Spain
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Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. August 1492- October 1492
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Christopher Columbus' three ships.
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History of West Indies
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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Colombian Exchange
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Plants, flaura, fauna, animals...
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Roanoke Island. Drops people off 1585, ship taken over 1587, returns 1590 to nothing
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The Lost Colony
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Roanoke Island
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Virginia Company
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6 millions acres of land
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Settlement of Jamestown
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April 1607
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Starving Time
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Winter 1609-1610
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"Bloody flux"
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Dysentary
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John Rolf marries Pocahantus
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1612
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Powhatan attack English on Good Friday killing 300
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1622
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Virginia Company becomes Royal charter
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1630
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Lord Baltimore proprietary colony granted by King Charles I
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Maryland
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Bacon's Rebellion
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October 1676; Threaten Burgesses to move Fall Line
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The Carolinas
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1663 charter from Charles II; 1670 settlement in Charles Town
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Georgia
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Last English colony est. James Oglethorpe receives charter. Bans alcohol and slavery.
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Canada 1583--Newfoundland; Pilgrims Plymouth Rock
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Humphrey Gilbert
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Predestination
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Dutch Calvanist
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William Bradford sets sail on Mayflower and settles in Massacusetts
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1620
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Agreement to let Puritan Elders run colony
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Mayflower Compact
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Bubonic Plague
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1616-1619
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1640 Plymouth's population
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3,000
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Puritans migration
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1629-1630
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Massachussetts Bay Company charter to John Winthrop
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New England-- "City upon a hill"
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1630s-1640s
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20,000 people travel to New England
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Roger Williams, Radical
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Responsible for seperation of church and state
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Smallpox epidemic among Connecticut Indians
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1633-1634
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Pequot and Puritan War killing 500 Pequots during early morning raid
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1637
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King Philip's War (Metacom's War)
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1676
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Trades between New England, Africa and Europe
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South Atlantic System
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"City upon a hill" corrupted, but does well economically.
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1679
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Working off debt; contract labor
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Indentured servitude
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When indentures expire
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Freedom dues--clothes, tools and seeds
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First to control slave trade
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Portugal
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Dutch break Portugese monopoly
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Collapses the headright system
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First indication of Africans
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John Rolf's diary, 1619
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Slaves outnumber whites 2 to 1
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1724
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Slaves 2nd in global economy to
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Gold
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Slave Codes
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1661
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Defines slaves as property
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Virginia Law, 1669
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Property you can touch or move
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Chattel property
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Enlightenment
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Early to mid 1800s. Scientific emphasis.
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Series of Religious Revivals in North Hampton, Massachussetts.
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Great Awakening
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Itinerant prechers who promote Natural Rights
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Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield
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Choice of type of Christianity
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Democratization
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France revokes Edict of Nantes making Catholicism only allowed in church
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1685
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Salutary Neglect, 1688-1763
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England leaves colonies alone
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Glorious Revolution that removed King James from thrown
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1688
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Albany, NY conference called by Ben Franklin to talk about British getting into war with French
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1754
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Alliance if one colony is attacked all others come to its aid. Colonies disagree
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Albany Plan of Union
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French/English war starts
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1754
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Prime Minister William Pitt sends Regulars to colonies
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1757
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Impressment
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Making people join Navy
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Seizures
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Taking foods and foods, tools, weapons, silver
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Quartering
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Forcing housing of soldiers
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War ends
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1760
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Treaty of Paris
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French claim all land east of Mississippi
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Pontiacs Rebellion. Attack 7 British forts and win.
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Fall 1763
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Paxton Boys attack Indian village and kill 50
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Demand more representation in legislation. Actually ended up being a Christian praying village
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Ends salutary neglect
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French/Indian War
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Sugar Act of 1764
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Lowers tax on Frnech molasses; raised fines for smuggling
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Stamp Act 1765
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Tax on paper products and printed documents
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The Revolution of 1775
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Debate over who has right to tax
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Patrick Henry
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Virginia Assembly; "Virginia Reolves"
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Sons of Liberty
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Artisans of Boston
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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1766
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Declatory Act of 1766
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Parliament has power to legislate over colonies in all cases whatsoever
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Charles Townsend replaces Grenville
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Townsend duties- tax on trade: glass, paper, paint, lead, tea.
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Lord North replaces Townsend
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Repeals all acts except tea tax
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Boston Massacre; propagandist Samuel Adams
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March 5, 1770
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Boston Tea Party
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April 1773
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Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
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1. Shuts down Boston Harbor
2. Dissolves Mass. assembly
3. More troops, more quartering
4. Any crime committed by British soldiers put on trial. Right of Enlgishmen trial bu jury in vicintage.
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First Continental Congress
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September 1774
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Minutement
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Boston militia
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Thomas Gage
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Leader of British Regulars
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American Revolution
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April 1775
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Declaration of Independence
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July 4, 1776
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Prohibitory Acts of 1776
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Shuts down all harbors and sends in Navy
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Colonial Assembly declares war because
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1. Britain recruited foreign mercenaries to fight colonists
2. Recruited Indians and slaves
3. British Regulars burned three towns to ground
**King considers colonists as foreign enemies
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