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Jamestown
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2c.asp /// https://www.nps.gov/colo/images/20080125152941.jpg (picture)
The colony Jamestown was settled in 1607. It was found by 144 people, English men and boys. -
Slave Uprising
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The Boston Massacre
http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2015/04/hith-boston-massacre-152189046.jpg Angry civilians taunted soldiers and threw snowballs a them so other British soldiers showed up and ended it by shooting and killing 5 people.
-5 deaths
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American Revolution
http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/American-Revolution.jpg The american revolution between united thirteen colonies in N America and Great Britain. Resulted in independence and added democracy and had people realizing the British empire didn't have as much control over them as they once thought. -
Lewis and Clark expedition
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-They were sent by Thomas Jefferson to find a water route across North America
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the second war for American Independence
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-James Madison signed congress's official declaration of war against England
-War was fought on land and sea and lasted for 3 years
-"O say can you see" was the song for that war -
The Underground Railroad
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/the-underground-railroad.jpg https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=when+was+the+underground+railroad+started&oq=when+was+the+undergr&gs_l=psy-ab.1.3.0l4.10643.17553.0.19845.23.21.1.0.0.0.390.2711.1j17j0j1.19.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.20.2718.0..0i131k1j35i39k1j0i20k1.kAHhhZ_pGOs- Homes and buildings that were known as "stations" or "depots
- For slaves to escape their masters and be free
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Indian Removal Act
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-Andrew Jackson was superior and indians were inferior.
-Native Americans died from "trail of Tears" -
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The American Mexican War
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-Americans and Mexicans
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California Gold rush
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-James W. Marshall
-Found gold in Coloma, California
-300,000 people came in search of gold -
The Compromise of 1850
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-Henry Clay
-attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dAro964zGmk/TXz46f4Bo9I/AAAAAAAAACw/zT3O3Ji05Q4/s910/uncle-toms-cabin.jpg https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=when+was+uncle+tom%27s+cabin+published&oq=when+was+uncle+tom&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l4.2131.5930.0.7288.21.17.1.0.0.0.371.3234.1j5j4j4.14.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..6.15.3242.0..35i39k1j0i67k1.PkvFt0hfmJM- Anti- slavery novel
- Made by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Kansas/ Nebraska Act
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-Allowed places in Kansas and Nebraska to decided if they wanted slavery allowed within their borders.
-Biggest cause to civil war
-"Bloody Kansas" -
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Bleeding Kansas
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-americanhistory/BleedingKansasFight.jpg
-Anti- slavery "Free- staters" and pro- slavery "Border Ruffian", or "Southern" elements in Kansas.
-In Kansas and Missouri
-Resulted in Free state victory -
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Pottawatomie Massacre
http://www-tc.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/states/kansas/ks_pottawatomie.jpg
-pro- slavery town
-John Brown and Co. killed 5 men settled along Pottawatomie Creek in s/e Kansas
-Victims were pro- slavery but didn't own slaves -
The Dred Scott Decision
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-Dred Scott was the slave of an army surgeon
-Scott stayed in what is now Minnesota for a prolonged amount of time so when he left he sued for the freedom he had in Minnesota. -
The Election of 1860
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-Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, John Bell
-Lincoln got only 40% of popular vote and 180 eelectoral votes which caused him to win.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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-The Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina
-The Confederate States Army
-Confederate Victory
-Beginning of the U.S Civil War -
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The U.S Civil War
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-Between the united states and 11 southern states that seceded from the union and formed the Confederate States of America
-Union won
-Battle of Fort Sumter
- Battle of Antietam -
Canadian Confederation
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-Colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick united into one Dominion of Canada.
-Canada wasn't own country yet
-Took place in South America
