Ahsge Ss Review- Places

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the oldest permanent settlement in the U.S. It was founded by the Spanish in 1565.

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St. Augustine

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.The original 13 colonies (along the Atlantic coast) were settled by the ______________.

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British

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._________________________ also called the Lost Colony was the first English settlement established by Sir Walter Raleigh

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Roanoke

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._________________________, VA was the first permanent English settlement. Founded in 1607.

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Jamestown

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.___________________________ was an island bought by the Dutch from the Native Americans for $24 worth of glass and beads.

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Manhattan

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5 people are killed here by British soldiers (including Crispus Attucks, an African American) and colonists will destroy British tea in the harbor here because of an unfair tax on tea.

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Boston (in the Boston Massacre)

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were nicknames for shanytowns or homeless slum areas during the 1930s.

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Hoovervilles

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shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at ___________________ , Massachusetts as the British troops were on their way to seize the arsenal at ___________where shots were fired again.

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Lexington
Concord

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Kansas-Nebraska Act- two territories where the issue of whether or not slavery would be allowed would be decided by popular sovereignty. This led to “_______________________________” clashes between pro-slavery forces and abolitionist groups over slavery. John Brown was a key figure.

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Bleeding Kansas

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In 1819, _______________________ becomes a state.

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Alabama

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First capital of the Confederacy was in _____________________, ________________

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Montgomery, Alabama

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The Confederate capital was later moved from Montgomery, Alabama to _______, ___________ to be closer to the fighting.

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Richmond, Virginia

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area of black fertile soil in Alabama excellent for growing cotton

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Black Belt

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In 1898 the U.S. Marines took ______. Queen Liliuokalani and her people were no match for the U.S. desire to control their sugar plantations and to set up a naval base and coaling station.

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Hawaii

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__________ was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. FDR called it a “date which will live in infamy”

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Pearl Harbor

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film capital of the U.S. starting in the 1920’s.

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Hollywood

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September 1, 1939 Germany invaded ______________. This officially started World War II.

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Poland

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First atomic bomb was dropped on ___________________, Japan. Second bomb dropped on _______________________________, Japan.

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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
(Hint: They are in ABC order...H comes before N)

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Infamous Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust.

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Auschwitz

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were land set aside for Native Americans who were relocated to Oklahoma during the 1800s.

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Reservations

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was the iron and steel center of Alabama- produced weapons for World War I

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Birmingham

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was the shipping and shipbuilding center in Alabama

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Mobile

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Thomas Jefferson authorized the purchase of this huge amount of land in 1803 from France/Napoleon.

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Louisiana Territory or Louisiana Purchase

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seceded from Alabama when Alabama seceded from the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

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Winston County (called themselves the Free State of Winston)

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left Virginia and formed a new state. They did not want to secede from the Union

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West Virginia

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site in Virginia where Robert E. Lee (South) surrendered to U.S. Grant (North) ending the Civil War.

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Appomatox Courthouse

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Union General William Tecumseh Sherman- burned ______________ on way to Savannah (March to Sea) during the Civil War.

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Atlanta (an important RR hub)

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a passageway that connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was begun during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency

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Panama Canal

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a perfect community where religious groups like the Quakers, Shakers, Amish, and Mennonites tried to achieve religious harmony.

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Utopia or Utopian community

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_________________ war crimes trials against Nazis were here for the slaughter of Jews during the Holocaust.

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Nuremberg, Germany

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A small strip of land purchased by the U.S. from Mexico to build the Southern Pacific Railroad through.

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Gadsden Purchase

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First shots of the Civil War were fired at this federal property

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Ft. Sumter
Charleston, South Carolina

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Gold was discovered at ______________in California in 1848.

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Sutter's Mill or Sutter's Fort

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meeting place of the 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention.

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Philadelphia