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15 Cards in this Set
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Jamestown
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First permanent English settlement was founded in 1607.
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Declaration Of Independence
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Was signed on July 4,1776.
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Constitution
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United States was written in 1787.
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Louisiana Territory
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President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
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Civil War
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Civil War was fought from 1861-1865.
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Lexington, Massachusetts
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The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington,Massachusetts in 1775.
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Concord,Massachusetts
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was the site of the first battle of the American Revolution.
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Battle of Saratoga
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was the turning point of the American Revolution
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Yorktown, Virginia
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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
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Battle of Gettysburg
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turning point in the Civil War for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
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Vicksburg, Mississippi
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the North in 1863, effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
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Appomattox Court House
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the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered 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 that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country.
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abolitionist
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was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
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