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93 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbis |
discovered america |
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Colombian Exchange |
exchange between the western and eastern |
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Hernando Cortes |
Spanish exploer |
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Mestizo |
A mix of mexicans and native americans |
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Juan Ponce de Leon |
Spanish explorer |
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John Smith |
Took control of Jamestown |
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Indentured servant |
served for the new settlers in America |
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Nathanial Bacon |
made the bacons rebellion |
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puritans |
a group of christians |
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John Winthrop |
A leader of the settlers |
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Consquistador |
A spanish exploere |
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separist |
separated from the church of england |
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Plymoth Colony |
where the settlers lived |
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King Phillip's War |
when he wanted war against the colonists |
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William Penn |
founded Pennsylvania |
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The new England Colonies |
colonies in the north |
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middle colonies |
colonies in the middle |
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southern colonies |
colonies in the south |
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mercantilism |
a group of christinas |
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navigation acts |
a leader of settlers |
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cash crop |
a crop sold lot because it is a good crop |
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middle passage |
a passage where slaves are taken from Africa and moved to America |
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Benjamin Franklin |
A founder of America |
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Great Awakening |
A religious revolution during the 17th or 18th Century |
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French and Indian War |
A war between the indians and the french |
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William Pitt |
founded Pittsburg |
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sugar act |
a tax levied by the british |
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Treat of Paris 1763 |
asked british to make peace between them |
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Iroquois |
a group of native americans sided with the native americans during the war |
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Royal Governor |
servants that help settlers |
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Ohio River Valley |
a place where everybody wanted to live |
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scientific method |
observe, hypothesis, experiment |
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indentured servants |
servants that help settlers |
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Three-fifths compromise |
when only 3/5 of the slave could vote |
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legislative branch |
creates laws |
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executive branch |
enforces the laws |
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judicial branch |
interprets the laws |
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marbury vs. madison |
supreme court case |
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Louisiana Purchase |
when we bought the territory of Louisiana and it doubled the size of american |
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Sacajawea |
native american guide |
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William Henry Harrison |
9th president. Had the longest innauguration speech, had shortest term |
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Andrew Jackson |
the 7th president, Indian removal act |
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Treaty of Ghent |
1814 declared an end to the war |
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Eli Whitney |
invented the cotton gin |
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mass production |
making more products than you need |
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Cotton gin |
invention made for picking cotton easier |
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Henry Clay |
The great compromise |
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American System |
americans getting things |
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John Quincy Adams |
treaty to make peace with indians |
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Missouri Compromise |
made sure to add california and texas |
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Andrew Jackson |
7th president, sent the indians west with the trail of tears and indian removal act |
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Indian removal act |
removed all the indians from their home land to the west |
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trail of tears |
the trail the indians went on to move west |
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bank of the united states |
held all peoples money |
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whig party |
a group of people with republicans |
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Martin Van Buren |
a president everyone hated because Andrew Jackson went against him. |
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Panic of 1837 |
Everyone was freaking out |
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William Henry Harrison |
9th president |
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John Tyler |
10th president |
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telegraph |
first long distance talking |
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John Deere |
made the first steel plow |
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oregon trail |
trail that leads all the way to the west |
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mormons |
a group of church leaders |
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Joseph Smith |
the founder of the mormoms |
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Brigham Young |
leader of the mormons |
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Fifty-four forty or fight! |
James K. Polk campaign |
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Land grant |
to get more land |
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
dictator of Mexico was captured by americans |
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texas revolution |
war between texas and mexico |
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alamo |
a war fought between mexico and texas - famous battle |
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Sam Houston |
President of Texas |
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Republic of Texas |
when Texas was its own land |
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Annex |
to move |
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JAMES K. Polk |
11th president |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
made peace between mexico and america |
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forty-niners |
men who moved to california only for the gold |
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gold rush |
when they found gold in California |
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Missouri compromise |
getting missouris |
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secede |
to take something away |
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fugitive slave act |
making slaves |
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Uncle Toms Cabin |
Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Kansas - Nebraska Act
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getting nebraska and kansas |
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Treason |
someone who takes something |
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martyr |
someone who is killed for their beliefs |
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John Brown |
killed 5 men by the river. was an abolitionist |
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Harpers Ferry |
where John Brown killed 5 men |
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the election of 1860 |
Abe Lincoln won |
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Northern Democrat |
Jefferson Davis |
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Republican |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Constitutional union |
John Breckenridge |
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Jefferson Davis |
Northern Democrat |
