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81 Cards in this Set
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Viking explorer who "discovered" America
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Leif Ericson
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Queen at the beginning on English colonization
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Elizabeth I
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King who started the Church of England
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Henry VIII (the eighth)
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People who wanted to change the Church of England
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Puritans
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When the colonists declared their independence from Great Britain
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July 4, 1776
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Where the "Shot Heard Round the World" occurred
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Concord
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Washington's sneak attack against the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas Day, 1776
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"Crossing the Delaware"
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Document that stated the reasons for the colonists separation from Great Britain
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Declaration of Independence
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Colonists dressed as Indians to protest high taxes
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Boston Tea Party
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The Continental Army spent the winter of 1777-78 here under extremely harsh conditions.
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Valley Forge
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When the American Revolution began
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April 19, 1775
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Five colonists were killed by British redcoats.
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Boston Massacre
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The battle for control of Boston Harbor
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Bunker Hill
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The main author of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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The last major battle of the American Revolution
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Yorktown
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This battle was "The Turning Point" of the American Revolution
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Saratoga
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This man rode to warn of the British attack
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Paul Revere
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The idea that citizens must give their permission to be taxed.
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"No Taxation without representation."
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Commander-in-cheif of the Continental Army
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George Washington
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When Christopher Columbus "discovered" America
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October 12, 1492
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Attempted naval invasion of England in 1588.
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Spanish Armada
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One of Christopher Columbus' ships
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Nina
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One of Christopher Columbus' ships
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Pinta
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One of Christopher Columbus' ships
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Santa Maria
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This man "discovered" America for the third time
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Christopher Columbus
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This man wanted to reform the Catholic church
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Martin Luther
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Attempt to change the Catholic Church.
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Reformation
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A series of religious wars for control of the Holy Land.
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Crusades
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The rule of a country by a king or queen
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Monarchy
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Period of time when the Earth's temperature dropped and the level of the oceans dropped
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Ice Age
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A social system in which one level of society owes something
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Feudalism
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Allowed migration of prehistoric people to North America from Asia
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Land Bridge
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People who wanted to leave the Church of England
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Separatists
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Dutch settlement, now called New York City
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New Amsterdam
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Where the first shots of the American Revolution took place.
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Lexington
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First Successful English settlement in America.
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Jamestown
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Ship on which the Pilgrims sailed to America.
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Mayflower
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Place where the Pilgrims landed in America.
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Plymouth Rock
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Cash crop the made Virginia successful
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Tobacco
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First document of self-government in America written by the Pilgrims
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Mayflower Compact
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Our first document of government for the United States
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Articles of Confederation
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A loose union of states or nations
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Confederation
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Form of government in which the people rule.
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Democracy
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A union of states with a strong central government
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Federal
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Land north of the Ohio River taken from Great Britain during the American Revolution
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Northwest Territory
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Document that sets the principles and the plans for the government
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Constitution
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Agreement to have a bicameral legislature
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Great Compromise
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Father of the Constitution
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James Madison
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The control of the government is divided among the three branches
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Separation of Power
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Carries out the law
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Executive
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One branch of government has some authority over the others
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Checks and Balances
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Enforces and defines the law
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Judicial
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Law making body
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Legislature
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Power is distributed between national and state governments
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Federalism
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Representatives from each state who selects the president
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Electoral College
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The acceptance of people with different beliefs
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Toleration
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Belief that people have the right to rule themselves
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Popular Sovereignty
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A period of change when machines took over the production of goods
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Industrial Revolution
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Court case that established the Supreme Court's power to declare a law unconstitutional
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Marbury vs. Madison
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The process by the Supreme Court to decide if a law is unconstitutional
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Judicial Review
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Presidential rejection of an act passed by Congress
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Veto
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A government where a small group has the power
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Oligarchy
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The upper house of Congress that consists of 100 members
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Senate
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Uprising of Massachusetts farmers that showed a weakness of the central government
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Shays' Rebellion
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The lower house of Congress that consists of 435 members
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House of Representatives
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Document that stated the reasons for the colonists separation from Great Britain.
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Bill of Rights
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Inventor of the cotton gin and developed the idea of interchangeable parts
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Eli Whitney
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Allows Congress to pass all laws necessary and proper to run the government
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Elastic Clause
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Changed the procedure for electing the President and the Vice-President.
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12th Amendment
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French emperor that sold the US Louisiana
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Napoleon
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Vice-President that killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
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Aaron Burr
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Marbury vs. Madison case that established the court's right to judicial review.
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John Marshall
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Explorers of the Louisiana Territory
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Lewis and Clark
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The movement of people from rural areas to the cities.
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Urbanization
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The right to know the crime of which you are accused before going on trial.
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Habeus Corpus
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This man invented the self-scouring steel plow
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John Deere
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Man-made water transportation route in northern New York
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Erie Canal
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Twenty-first state in the union; admitted in 1818.
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Illinois
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A policy that warned Europeans to not interfer in the Americas.
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Monroe Doctrine
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The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of this line
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36º 30' North
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Horse drawn machine used to harvest grain.
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Reaper
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