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30 Cards in this Set
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1606 |
Investors pull resources and form "Virginia company" |
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1607 |
Establishment of Jamestown |
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1608 |
2/3rds of population have died due to unfamiliar disease |
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1622 |
Native attack on Jamestown |
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1630 |
Winthrop brings more Puritan settlers to New England |
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1637 |
Pequot War |
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1735 |
The Great Awakening |
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1756 |
The Seven Years War |
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1763 |
Treaty of Paris (Britain acquires more territory) |
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1753 |
Sugar Act |
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1770 |
Boston Massacre |
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1773 |
Tea act |
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1774 |
First Continental congress |
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1776 |
Thomas Paine: Common Sense (Arguing for independence) |
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1777 |
Battle of Saratoga (Turning point in revolutionary war) |
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1776 |
Declaration of Independence signed |
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1787 |
Constitution is written |
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1828 |
Jackson voted president |
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1832 |
Jackson vets bill extending charter of the bank |
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1832 |
Nullification crisis |
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1763 |
Proclamation line forbids settlement past point along Appellation mountains |
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1807 |
Slave Trade made illegal |
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1860 |
By _____ there were around 4million slaves in the US |
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1846 |
Mexican war (more territory acquired, question as to if it would allow slavery) |
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1850 |
Compromise of ______ |
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1854 |
Run away slave Anthony Burns caught - causes mass mourning |
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1854 |
Kansas Nebraska bill |
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1857 |
Dred Scott decision |
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1861-65 |
Civil War |
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1862 |
Battle of Shiloh |
