Apush Midterm Review

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Commonwealth v. Hunt

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Unions are legal if methods are "honorable and peaceful"

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Dartmouth v. Woodward

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States can't control business charters

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Fletcher v. Peck

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Protected property rights
Supreme Court can overturn state laws

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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Only Congress can regulate interstate commerce

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Marbury v. Madison

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Set up judicial review

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McCulloch v. Maryland

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Federal Gov't is supreme
Bank of US is legal

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Segregation is legal because separate but equal

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Tariff 1816

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Part of the American System

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Tariff 1828

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Tariff of Abominations
Caused Nullification crisis

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Panic of 1819

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Caused by over speculation of WESTERN LANDS

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Panic of 1837

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(In Part) caused by Jackson's banking policies

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Panic of 1857

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Added to social division between North and South
(Hit North worse than South)

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Adam-Onis Treaty

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Florida purchase

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Convention of 1800

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Ended Quasi-War w/ France

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Convention of 1818

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Fixed border at 49th parallel from MN to Rockies

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Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty

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Gave US Mexican cession

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Jay's Treaty

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Very unpopular w/ Democratic-Republicans

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Pickney's Treaty

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Treaty between US and Spain that gave US rights to use New Orleans

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Rush-Bagot Agreement

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Demilitarized Great Lakes

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Divided South America between Spain and Portugual

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Treaty of Ghent

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Returned thing to status quo after the War of 1812

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Treaty of Paris (1763)

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Gave GB huge land gains in N. America

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Treaty of Paris (1783)

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US Independance

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Great/Connecticut Compromise

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Bickering over how each state was represented
Created Bicameral/Two house legeslature

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Missouri Compromise

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Caused by debates over the expansion of Slavery
Balanced Slave/Free state numbers
Gave momentary peace

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Compromise of 1850

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Ended Slave in DC
California is a free state
Created Fugitive Slave Law
Popular Sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Supported by Stephen Douglas
Popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska

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3/5 Compromise

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Caused by debates over how slaves should be counted in population
North - Opposed; South - Should be a person
Slaves = 3/5 of a Person

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1st Amendment

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Protects basic freedoms:
Speech, Petition, Press, Assembly, Religion
(Remember RAPPS)

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5th Amendment

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Protection of those accused of crimes
Due Process
("I plea the 5th")

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9th Amendment

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People have more rights than just what it says in the Constitution

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10th Amendment

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Whatever powers are not given to the National gov't is given to the states

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13th Amendment

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Reconstruction Amendment
Freed the Slaves

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14th Amendment

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Reconstruction Amendment
All citizens are equal under the law

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15th Amendment

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Reconstruction Amendment
Gave suffrage to African Americans

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Crittenden Compromise

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(Did not pass) Last effort to avoid Civil War

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Currency Act

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The colonies couldn't print their own money

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Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Led to 1st Continental Congress;
British troops can stay in your home;
Closed Boston Harbor;
Soldiers can be tried in GB;
Ends Massachusetts Town Meetings, etc

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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Established procedure for dividing NW territory

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Maine Law of 1851

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1st Prohibition Law

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Maryland Toleration Act

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Believe in God and you're fine

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Molasses Act

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Taxed certain imports
Useless because of SMUGGLING

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Navigation Acts

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Supported British mercantilism

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NW Ordinance of 1787

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Passed by Articles of Confederation
Prohibited Slavery in certain areas

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Quartering Act

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Have to house British Soldiers

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Quebec Act

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left Quebec alone
combined w/ Intolerable/Coercive Acts caused uproar

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Revenue Act

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Reduced taxes/duties on molasses
Extended tax/duty to British Molasses

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Stamp Act

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First direct tax on colonies

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Sugar Act

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Duties on wine, coffee, and molasses;
1764

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Tallmadge Amendment

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(Before MO Compromise)
Proposed that there would be no more slaves in Missouri

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Tea Act

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Gave the East India Company a monopoly on a certain commodity

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Townshend Acts

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Taxes on things that the colonies could only buy from GB

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Wade Davis Bill

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Attempt at harsher Reconstruction Plans
Shot down by Lincoln

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Wilmot Proviso

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Proposal to restrict slavery extending into Mexican cession

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Led to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Embargo Act

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Made Thomas Jefferson very unpopular

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Force Bill

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Passed after the Nullification Crisis
To save face after lowering the tariff

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Fugitive Slave Law

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Runaway slaves must be returned to their owners
Part of the Compromise of 1850
enraged the North

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Homestead Act

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The gov't will pay you to move West in land

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Indian Removal Act

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Forced Native Americans to move West of the Mississippi

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Judiciary Act of 1789

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Set up the Supreme Court

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Legal Tender Act

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Allowed the Union to issue currency during the Civil War

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Macon's Bill No. 2

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Ended trade restriction on France and Britain w/ the promise to reinstate restrictions on one country if the other respected US trade

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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Granted states land on which to build colleges

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Non-Intercourse Act

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Retained embargo on Britain and France
Ended it on other countries

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Pacific Railway Act

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Gave land to companies to build the transcontinental

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Reconstruction Acts

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Instituted military rule in the South
Enfranchised blacks
Required approval for the 14th Amendment

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Tenure of Office Act

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The sole purpose of this act was to impeach Andrew Johnson
That's it
They didn't want him anymore so they made this

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Election of 1800

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Referred to as a revolution because of the peaceful transfer of power from on party to another

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Election of 1824

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Corrupt Bargain
Winner - John Adams
Loser - Jackson

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Election of 1860

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Led to secession of 7 southern states
Winner - Lincoln

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Election of 1876

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Resulted in a compromise
Troops pulled out of South, then Hayes wins

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J. Adams' Administration

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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W. Harrison's Administration

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Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign

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T. Jefferson's Administration

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"We are all Republicans, We are all Democrats"

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A. Jackson's Administration

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Mass politics

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J. Polk's Administration

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Manifest Destiny

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J. Monroe's Administration

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Era of Good Feelings

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Federalists

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Party destroyed by the Hartford Convention

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Democratic Republicans

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Favored smaller federal gov't
Strict interpretation of Constitution
French Interests

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Whig

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Aside from having a stupid name
Party formed in opposition of Andrew Jackson

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Republicans

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Against the expansion of slavery in the new territories

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Know-Nothing Party

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Anti-immigrant party in the early 1800's

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1600-1650s

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English Civil War, Anne Hutichinson;
City upon hill, Pilgrims, headright system, Freedom of conscience;
Colonial of Jamestown and Quebec;
Fundamental Orders, 1st slaves imported, Rolfe and tobacco
Mayflower Compact, Indentured servants, Roger Williams, Puritan Migration, VA House of Burgesses

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1650-1700s

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Trade & Navigation Acts, King Phillip's war, Halfway Covenant;
Restoration Colonies, Bacon's Rebellion, Dominion of New England;

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1700-1750s

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Peter Zenger Trial, Great Awakening, James Oglethorpe, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards;

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1750s

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French & Indian War, Albany Plan, Mercantilism, Salutary Neglect, William Pitt

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1760s

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Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Paxton Boys, Sugar Act, Not Taxation without Representation;
Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements, Pontiac's Rebellion, Townshend Acts;
Proclamation Act, Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years War, Declaratory Act

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1770s

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Battle of Saratoga, Thomas Pain's "Common Sense," Coercive/Intolerable Acts, Olive Branch Petition, Boston Tea Party;
Tea Act, Boston Massacre, Gaspee Affair, 1st/2nd Continental Congress;
Committee of Correspondance, Lextington and Concord

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1780s

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VA Statue of Religious Freedom Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, 1st Land Ordinance passed

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Navigation Acts were part of the British policy known as:

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Mercantilism

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Dutch settled New Netherlands because:

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Expansion of Wealth

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France negotiated a Treaty of Alliance w/ the new American Nation after:

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Defeat of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga

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Caused discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army:

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The soldiers feared for their families back home
Inadequate arms/ammunition
Paid in deprecate paper money
Inadequate clothing and nurishment

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Puritans are:

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NON-SEPERATISTS

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Proclamation Line of 1763

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Colonists can't go past he Appalachian Mountains
Created to avoid conflict between the trans-Appalachian Indians

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By the 1750s, British colonies were characterized by:

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Many religious denominations
A Society without a hereditary aristocracy
A growing number of non English settlers
Acceptance of slavery

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Colonial cities primary functions were to:

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Mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

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Indentured Labor allowed what:

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the poor to come to America

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Stamp Act Crisis was important because:

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Demonstration of willingness to use violence
Revolution was inevitable
British says they have no right for Independence
Denied them of their birthrights