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62 Cards in this Set
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1492
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Colombus discovers America; beginning of "Black Legend"
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1607
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Founding of Jamestown
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1620
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Mayflower Compact
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1675-1676
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King Phillip's War
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1676
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Bacon's Rebellion
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1688
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Glorious Revolution
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1688-1763
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Salutary neglect
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1692
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Salem witch trials
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1734-1760
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1st Great Awakening
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1739
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Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
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1754-1763
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French and Indian War
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1754
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Albany Plan
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1765
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Stamp Act
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1770
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Boston Massacre
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1774
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Intolerable Acts
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1773
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Boston Tea Party
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1775
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War for Independence begins; Shot heard round the world
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1776
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Declaration of Independence; Common Sense published by Thomas Paine
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1777
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Battle of Saratoga (French become our allies)
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1781-1787
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Articles of Confederation
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1783
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Treaty of Paris (America becomes an independent nation up to the Mississippi River)
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1785
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Land Ordinance
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1786-1787
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Shay's Rebellion (shows the need for a strong centralized government)
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1787
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Federalist Papers published; Northwest Ordinance
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1788
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Constitution ratified
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1791
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Bill of Rights ratified
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1793
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Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin
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1794
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Whiskey Rebellion (put down by George Washington)
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1798
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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1801
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Midnight Judges; John Marshall's court (1802-1830s)
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1803
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Marbury vs. Madison (Judicial Review); Louisiana Purchase
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1807
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Embargo Act
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1808
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International slave trade outlawed
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1814
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Treaty of Ghent
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1817
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American Colonization Society established
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1820
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Missouri Compromise
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1823
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Monroe Doctrine
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1824
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Corrupt Bargain; American System takes effect; Lowel Mill Girl's Strike
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1831
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Nat Turner's rebellion; Garrison's The Liberator is published
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1832-1833
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South Carolina Nullification Crisis
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1836
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The Alamo
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1840's
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2nd Great Awakening
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1840
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Margaret Fuller edits The Dial
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1846-1848
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Mexican-American War
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1848
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Seneca Falls Convention
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1849
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California Gold Rush
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1850
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Compromise of 1850 - California admitted; Fugitive Slave Act
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1851
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Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I A Woman"
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1852
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Uncle Tom's Cabin published
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1854
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
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1857
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Dred Scot Decision
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1859
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
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1861-1865
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Civil War
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1863
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Emancipation Proclamiation issued after Battle of Antietam
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1865-1877
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Reconstruction
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1865-1900
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Gilded Age (Era of Good Stealings)
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1870
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Rockefeller formed Standard Oil
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1872
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Creit Mobier Scandal hurt President Grant's administration
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1876
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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1877
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Ruther'fraud' Hayes elected; Compromise of 1877
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1881
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"A Century of Dishonor" by Helen Hunt Jackson published
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1883
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Pendleton Act (civil service reform)
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