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1
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___________ is a person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time,

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Indentured servant

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______________ is a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.

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Mestizo

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____________ are Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

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Conquistadores

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__________ is an independent city of southwest Virginia west-southwest of Richmond

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Roanoke

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___________ was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia

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Jamestown

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_____________ was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century

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Henry hudson

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____________ was a Venetian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England

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John Cabot

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__________ is the belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

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Mercantilism

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______________ is the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Monopoly

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___________ was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

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John Hancock

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______________ was the first person killed in the Boston massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely considered to be the first American casualty in the American Revolutionary War.

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Crispus Atticus

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______________ was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Samuel Adams

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_______________ is an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

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Blockade

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______________ was a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British

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Ethan Allen

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______________ was an American general of the Revolutionary War.

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Benedict Arnold

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______________ was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary

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Thomas Paine

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_____________ was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat

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Benjamin Franklin

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______________ is the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions

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Emancipation

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_____________ is a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

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Abolitionists

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______________ the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

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Bill of Rights

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________________ was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia

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Patrick Henry

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_____________ was an American statesman and writer on government

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Alexander Hamilton

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____________ was 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution

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George Washington

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______________ was a figure in American history who completely failed at everything he did, and his name can now be used as an insult meaning “weak”,

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John Jay

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___________ was the first vice president (1789–1797) and second president (1797–1801) of the United States

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John Adams

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_____________ is the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid

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Ratification

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____________ is the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

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Secession

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___________ is a compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.

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Conscription

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29
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___________ was the 3rd President of the United States

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Thomas Jefferson

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30
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____________ was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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John Marshall

31
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_____________ was a United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River

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Meriwether Lewis

32
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______________ was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

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William Clark

33
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_______________ was an American naval commander, born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

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Oliver Hazard Perry

34
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______________ was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Georgetown who wrote the lyrics to the United States’ national anthem

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Francis scott key

35
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______________ was a nineteenth-century lawyer, representative, senator, Secretary of State, and one of the great orators in U.S. history

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Daniel Webster

36
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The _____________ are five Native American nations—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole

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Five Civilized Tribes

37
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______________ was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author

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Noah Webster

38
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______________ was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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Washington Irving

39
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_____________ was rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery

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The industrial Revolution

40
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______________ was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.

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Eli Whitney

41
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___________ is a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.

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Cotton Gin

42
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____________ was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat

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Robert Fulton

43
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____________ was a purchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana Territory in 1803

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Louisiana Purchase

44
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______________ is an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

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Embargo

45
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______________ is the act of taking men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice

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Impressment

46
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______________ was America’s ninth president, served just one month in office before dying of pneumonia

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William Henry Harrison

47
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______________ was fought on November 7, 1811, in what is now Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American warriors associated with the Shawnee leader Tecumseh.

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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_______________ was any of the congressmen from the South and West, led by Henry Clay and John Calhoun, who wanted war against Britain in the period leading up to the War of 1812.

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War Hawks

49
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_____________ was a war between Britain and the United States, fought between 1812 and 1815

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War of 1812

50
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______________ was the last major battle of the War of 1812

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Battle of New Orleans

51
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_____________ was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States

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Andrew Jackson

52
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______________ was the major battle of the Creek War, in which Jackson sought to “clear” the Mississippi Territory for American settlement.

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Battle of Horseshoe Bend

53
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__________ is an artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River

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Erie Canal

54
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______________ was an American inventor and businessperson, the founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company

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McCormick

55
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______________ is an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.

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Morse

56
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_____________ was an inventor and manufacturer of farm implements

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John Deere

57
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_____________ is a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.

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Telegraph

58
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_____________ was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery “Free-Staters” and pro-slavery “Border Ruffian”, or “southern” elements in Kansas.

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Bloody Kansas

59
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_______________ was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Melville

60
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_____________ is a prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.

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Racism

61
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_____________ was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia

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Nat Turner

62
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_______________ was a United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North

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Frederick Douglass

63
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_______________ became the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845) when President William Henry Harrison died in April 1841. He was the first Vice …

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John Tyler

64
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____________ was an American abolitionist and author

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

65
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____________ was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters

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Dred Scott

66
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________________ was a U.S. politician, leader of the Democratic Party, and orator who espoused the cause of popular sovereignty in relation to the issue of slavery in the territories before the American Civil War

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Stephen A Douglas

67
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____________ was the 16th President of the United States

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Abraham Lincoln

68
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____________ was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system.

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John Brown

69
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____________ was a Civil War Confederate leader from West Point to the Southern secession.

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Jefferson Davis

70
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_______________ was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross.

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Clara Barton

71
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___________ were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.

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Black codes

72
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______________ was racial segregation that were directed against blacks at the end of the 19th century

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Jim Crow Laws

73
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______________ was an African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama

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Booker T Washington

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