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European armies tried to take Holy Lands from Muslims
the Crusades
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rebirth of art and literature which began in Italy
the Renaissance
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Martin Luther began this revolt against the Catholic Church
The Protestant Reformation
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Plants animals, and diseases were transferred beteen Europe and the Americas
The Columbian Echange
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Christopher Columbus arrived in the "New World" in
1492
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Spanish soliders who came to the Americas serching for treasure
Conquistadors
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The oldes permanent European settlement in the U.S.
St. Augustine
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Ghe oldest permanent English settlement in the U.S.
Jamestown
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The first elected legislture in the English colonies
Virgina House of Burgesses
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Who won the French and Indian War
The British
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limited the King of England's power in 1215
Magna Carta
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Wrote about natural rights (including right to rebel)
John Locke
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Wrote the Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Huge American revival during the 1700s
The Great Awakening
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What did George Washngton warn against in his Farewell Address
political parties and foreign alliances
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The Supreme Court can cancel laws that they believe are unconstitutional
Judicial review
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When was the declaration of Independence was signed
July 4, 1776
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Key phrases "all men are created equal" + "life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
Dec. of Independence
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When was the Constitution written
1787
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"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..."
Preamble to Constitution
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3 branches of U.S government
Legislative, executive, judicial
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5 rights protected by 1st amendment
religion, speech, press, assembly, petition
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2nd Amendment
Right to bear arms
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4th Amendment
Protects against "unreasonable" searches
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5th Amendment
due process and right to remain silent
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8th Amendment
no "cruel and unusual punishments"
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abolished slavery in 1865
13th Amendment
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guaranteed rights of citizenship to black Americans
14th Amendment
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right to vote can't be denied based on race
15th Amendment
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women got the right to vote
19th Amendment
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African American slain at the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
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led the Sons of Liberty at the Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams
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2nd Continental Congress chose him to lead the Continental Army
George Washington
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first shots of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
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Colonial victory that convinced French to join us
Battle of Saratoga
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G.B. recongnized U.S. independence and gave us all land east of the MS River
Treaty of Paris, 1783
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plan for adding states north of Ohio River (didn't allow slaves there)
Northwes Ordinance, 1787
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Doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
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Forbade new slave states north of 36 30' (in 1820)
Missouri Compromise
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the idea that the U.S. would spread from coast to coast
Manifest Destiny
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warned European against starting new American colonies
Monroe Doctrine
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the forced removal of Native Americans from the Southeast
Trail of Tears
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people who demanded an immediate end of slavery
abolitionist
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wrote anti-slavey novel called Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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runaway slave, great abolitionist speaker and writer
Frederick Douglass
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first women's rights convention in U.S, history (1848)
Seneca Falls convention
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Andrew Jackson led defeat of British days after a treaty ended the War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
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poet who wrote Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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Made CA a free state tougher Fugitive Slave Law ended slave trade in DC
Compromise of 1850
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When was the Civil War?
1861-1865
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