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15 Cards in this Set
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Jamestown
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The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607.
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The declaration of Independence
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was signed on July 4 1776.
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The constitution
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of the United States was written in 1787.
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Louisiana Territory
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President Thomas Jefferson purchased it from France in 1803.
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The Civil War
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was fought from 1861-1865.
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Lexington Massachusetts
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First shots of the American Revolution were fired.
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Concord Massachusetts
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Site of the first battle of the American Revolution,
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The battle of Saratoga
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Turning point of the American Revolution.
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Yorktown,Virginia
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The british defeat by George Washington's troops signaled the end of the American Revolution.
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Fort Sumter
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired in South Carolina.
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Turning point in the Civil War for the North.
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Vicksburg,Mississippi
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The capture by the north in 1863.
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Appomattox,Court House
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Small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrended the Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.
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Mercantilism
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Is an economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and the colonies exist for the benifit of the Mother Country.
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Abolitionist
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A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
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