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132 Cards in this Set
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____ also know as "Erik the Red" was among the first people sailing west and discovering _______, _______, and the New World.
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Leif Erikson
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_________ were spanish conquerors sent by the king to claim lands in the New World.
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Conquistadors
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______ conquered the Incas in Peru.
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Pizzaro
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______ explored the southwest United states as he was looking for the 7 Cities of Gold. He route later became the ____
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Coronado
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_____ conquered the Aztec empire.
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Cortes
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_____ __ _______ explored Florida.
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Ponce de Leon
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The _______ _______ is the imaginary route over the top of North America to the Pacific Ocean.
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Northwest Passage
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______ discovered the Pacific Ocean.
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Balboa
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______ discovered the Grand Banks
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Cabot
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______ claimed land around the St. Lawerence RIver.
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Cartier
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The ___ ______ was the continents discovered between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
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New World
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_____ sailed around the tip of Africa.
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Diaz
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Queen _____ financed Columbus' voyages to the New World.
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Isabella
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The man given credit for discovering America is ______.
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Columbus
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The first man to sail around the world was _______.
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Magellan
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The first to sail around Africa to get to the spice trading lands was _______.
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DaGama
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The English colony that mysteriously disappeared was _____ ___ and it was founded by by ___ ____ ____.
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Roanoke Island
Sir Walter Raleigh |
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The _____ _____ was thought to be the water route through North America.
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Northwest Passage
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____ ______ explored the Hudson River for Holland.
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Henry Hudson
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The first successful English colony in America ________. It was founded as a _____ _____ to make a _____.
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Jamestown
trading post profit |
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Captain ____ _____ was the leader of JAmestown.
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John Smith
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The _______ were the Native Americans that helped colonists at Jamestown.
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Powhatants
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People that came to North America and had to work off the price of their trip were called ______ _______.
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Indentured servants
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___ _____ brought tobacco to Virginia as a cash crop.
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John Rolf
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The _____ of _______ was the law making body of Virginia.
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House of Burgesses
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English colonists that came to Plymouth to find religious freedom were called ________ who had separated from the Church of England.
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Pilgrims
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The _________ was the ship that brought the Pilgrims to North America.
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Mayflower
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The _____ _______ was a list fo rules that the pilgrims agreed to live by.
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Mayflower Compact
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______ was a Native American that helped the Pilgrims get started.
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Squanto
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The ______ came to North America to purify the Church of England.
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Puritans
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The ___ ____ colonies were the northernmost English colonies in America made up of Massachusettes, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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New England
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The ___ _____ were just south of the New England. They included New York, Pennsylvannia, New Jersey, and Delaware.
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Middle Colonies
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The _____ _______ were the southermost English colonies made up of Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, and Georgia.
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Southern Colonies
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____ _____ was the business of buying and selling people for profit.
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Slave trade
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______ _____ _______ was trade between English colonies, Africa, and England.
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Triangular Trade Route
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______ were very large farms in the south tha grew cash crops.
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Plantations
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The rugged land between the Atlantic coast and the Appalachian Mountains was called the ________.
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backcountry
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__ _______ was Spain's first colony in what is now the US. Stone walls were built around it to ____ from attacks.
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St. Augustine
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A religious settlement where missionaries lived and worked was a ______.
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mission
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________ founded a trading post called Quebec.
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Champlain
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The war between the Britain and France with the help of the Indians was the _____ and ______ ____.
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French and Indian War
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The _________ _____ of ______ gave all land east of the Appalachian Mountains to the colonists. Lands west were set aside for the Native Americans.
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Proclamation Line of 1763
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______ explored the south central part of the US
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De Soto
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______________ something is to stop buying or using something as a means of protest
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Boycotting
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___________________ involved dumping British Tea into Boston Harbor.
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Boston Tea Party
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________ ____ were laws and taxes passes as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
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Intolerable Acts
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_________ _________ wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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Thomas Jefferson
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______ _____ was the second president of the United States.
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John Adams
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_________ _________ was the patriot who said "Give Me liberty of Give me death".
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Patrick Henry.
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____ ____ formed the Sons of Liberty.
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Samuel Adams
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______ __________ was killed in the Boston Massacre.
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Crispus Attuckes
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____ ______ was the wife of John Adams.
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Abigail Adams
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_____ ______ signed the Declaration of Independence large enough for the King of England to see without his glasses.
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John Hancock
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____ _____ warned the British were coming.
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Paul Revere
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_______ ________ wrote the book ___________ __________.
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Thomas Paine
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German mercenaries from Hesses were ___________.
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Hessians.
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People who favored splitting with Britain in the Revoluationary War were ___________.
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Patriots
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____________ were people who favored staying a British colony.
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Loyalists
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_____ _____________ was famous for saying, "I have but one life to lose for my country"
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Nathan Hale
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_______ was the site where Washington crossed the Delaware and captured a Hessian fort.
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Trenton
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___________ was a french man who came to America to help the Patriots fight.
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Lafayette
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___ _____ trained the Continental Army in European battle techniques.
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Von Stuben
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____ ____ ____ kept the British busy in the South.
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George Rogers Clark
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____ ____ ____ was a naval hero in the Revoulationary War.
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John Paul Jones
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____ ____ was a famous traitor in the American Revolution.
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Benedict Arnold
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______ __________ was also known as the "Swamp Fox"
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Francis Marion
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The commander of the British forces was __________ _________.
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General Cornwallis
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_______ __________ was commander in chief of the Continental Army.
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George Washington
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The last battle of the American Revolution took place in __________.
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Yorktown
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The _______ __ _______ finalized the Revolutionary War.
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Treaty of Paris
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The __________ __ __________ was the frist form on national government in the US
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Articles of Confereration
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The ____________ __________ was a law passed by COPngress in 1787 organizing Northwest Teritories for settlement and statehood.
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Northwest Ordinance
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________ __________ insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
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George Mason
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The Virginia Plan vs. the New Jersey Plan for representation became known as the __________ __________.
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Great Compromises
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Wilderness road was founded by ___________ _________.
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Daniel Boone.
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An ___________ is a change to the Constitution.
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amendment
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The __________ __________ is the law making part of the government with the power to raise money needed to run the government
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Legislative Branch
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The _______ ________ is a system of government in which powers are shared between _______ and _____ governments.
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Federal System
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The _______ _________ is part of the government headed by the President that carries out all laws.
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Executive Branch
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The _________ ___ ______________ is the house of Congress in which each state is represented according to population.
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House of Representatives
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_______ ___ _______ refers to a system in which the powers of each branch of government is balanced by powers of another branch.
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Checks and Balances
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The _________ _________ is the part of a government that interprets the meaning of laws.
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Judicial Branch
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The ___________ is the house of Congress in which each state has an equal number of representation.
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Senate
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__________ refers to refusing to approve something.
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Veto
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The ________ ________ through the Appalachian Mountains that led to Kentucky.
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Wilderness Road
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The land bought from the French that doubled the size of the US was the ______ ________.
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Lousiana Purchase
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__________ and _________ were explorers sent by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
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Lewis and Clark
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_____________ helped Lewis and Clark on their journey through the Louisana Purchase.
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Sacajawea
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________ ______ was the grandson of an indentured servant who became an important writer, inventor, and politician in US history.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A major route between New Mexico and Mexico was _______ _____.
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El Camino Road
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___ ____ was land claimed by France along the St. Lawerence River and the Great Lakes.
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New France
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________ and ________ set out together to find the Mississippi River.
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Marquette and Joliet
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________ ______ claimed land along the Mississippi River for France.
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Robert La Salle
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The ____ __ _____ was the far fought that showed the world that the US had the ability to wage war.
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War of 1812
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______ ______ saved George WAshington's portrait and other documents while the British were burning Washington during the War of 1812.
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Dolly Madison
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_____ ___ ____ wrote the "Star SPangled Banner"
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Francis Scott Key
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The _____ _____ states that the US opposed any further expansion or colonization in Latin America.
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Monroe Doctrine
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_____ _____ was the first president elected by the common man.
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Andrew Jackson
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The Cherokee alphabet was written by ______.
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Sequoyah
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The _____ ____ ____ removed all Indians east of the Mississippi RIver to Indian Territory.
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Indian Removal Acts
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The _____ ____ was the time in American history when machines and factories began mass production of goods.
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Industrial Revolution
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____ ____ was the English immigrant who was responsible for building the first factory in the US
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Samuel Slater
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_____ ______ built the cotton gin and introduced the idea of interchangeable parts.
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Eli Whitney
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The machine that removed seeds from cotton as called a ______ ____.
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cotton gin
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The _____ ______ was an engine run by steam that allowed boats to go upriver and locomotive to pull great loads.
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steam engine
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The canal that connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River was the _____ ____.
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Erie Canel
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The ______ was where a battle in Texas was fought in an old Spanish mission, and all of the men were killed.
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Alamo
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The ______ ____ was the war fought over the boundary of the US and Mexico that established our Souther border.
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Mexican War
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The ______ ______ was compromised land obtained from the British in 1846.
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Oregon Territory
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The ____ ____ was the wagon trail leading to Oregon.
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Oregon Trail
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The ______ were a religious group led by Brigham Young that settled in Utah.
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Mormons
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_____ _____ was a name given to people who rushed to mine gold int he great gold rush of 1849 in California.
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Forty Niners
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People who opposed slavery were called _______.
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abolutionists
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The ______ _______ was a series of secret routes that excaping slaves could follow to freedom.
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Harriet Tubman
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The imaginary line from east to west through the Louisana Purchase that established a border between the slave and free states was a result of the ______ ______
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Missouri Compromise
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______ _____ _____ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to protest unfair slave laws.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The _____ _____ court decsion established slaves were property.
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Dred Scott
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_______ was elected to the presidency in 1860, and oversaw the Civil War.
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Lincoln
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The ______ ____ ___ _______ seceded from the Union and established their own constitution, and elected their own president Jefferson Davis.
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Confederate States of America
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____ _____ was the battle fought in Charleston, South Carolina that began in Civil War.
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Fort Sumter
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The _____ ____ was the war between the Northern and Southern states.
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Civil War
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The _____ __ _____ was the name given to the trail that the Indian Nations took to Indian Territory.
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Trail of Tears
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The ______ _____ was a series of secret routes that escaping slaves could follow to freedom.
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Underground Railroad
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______ _ _____ was the commander of the southern army.
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Robert E Lee
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_______ and ________ was the first battle of ironclad ships.
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Monitor and Merrimack
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The ________ _______ set slaves free.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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_______ __ _______ was the commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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____________ was the turning point of the Civil War for the north.
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Gettysburg
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The __________ ___________ was the speech given by Lincoln to commemorate the cemetry at Gettysburg.
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Gettysburg Address
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__________ _________ was the place of surrender where General Lee and General Grant signed the surrender of the Confederate soldiers.
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Appomattox Courthouse
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_____________ was the plan for rebuilding the South.
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Reconstruction
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____________ is the separation of people by race.
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Segregation
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