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14 Cards in this Set
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agreed to by the Pilgrims before they set foot on Plymouth. It guaranteed equal and just laws for all.
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Mayflower Compact
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Passed by British parliament-colonists can only trade with England on English ships
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Navigation Acts
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“No taxation without ______________”- Colonists were not represented in Parliament and felt the tax was unfair. (Britain involved in French/Indian War/Seven Years’ War- heavy debts- need to tax the colonies to pay their debts.)
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representation
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The ___________ Act was a tax on the colonies’ paper products
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Stamp Act
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The Coercive Acts, also known as the __________________________ Acts by the colonists, were passed to punish the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party. Their port was closed, they could only have 1 town meeting a year, British troops could be quartered in colonists’ homes, and British soldiers, accused of crimes, would now have their trials in Britain.
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Intolerable Acts
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The _______________________ of 1785 provided for the survey and sale of public lands of the NW territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.)
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Land Ordinance
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Passed by Congress and attached to the Compromise of 1850, northerners must return runaway slaves to the South or else be guilty themselves.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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The _________________ of 1787 set up how territories would become states (60,000 people, write a state Constitution).
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Northwest Ordinance
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Passed during Andrew Jackson’s presidency and forced Native Americans to relocate to Indian territory in Oklahoma
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Indian Removal Act
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The ______________ Act did away with reservations and attempted to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society but was a failure.
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Dawes
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The Sugar Act prior to the Revolutionary War was a tax on _____________
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molasses
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A tax on imported glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint before the American Revolution
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Townshend Acts
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Chinese Exclusion Act, Emergency Quota Act, and National Origins Act limited __________________ from Eastern and Southern Europe and Asia.
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immigration
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Laws were nicknames for southern segregation laws. Treated blacks as second class citizens.
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Jim Crow laws
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