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Treaty of tordesillas (1494)

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Moved line is demarcation west, allowing Portugal to claim Brazil, the remaining western hemisphere reserved for Spain

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Line of demarcation

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Drawn by the pope reserving sections for exploration given to Portugal in the east and Spain in the west (1493)

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Great awakening

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A religious movement that swept Protestant Europe ms British America in the 1730s and 1740s. (“Sinners in the hand of an angry God” by Jonathan Edwards)

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Jonathan Edwards / George whitefield

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Religious revivals from 1720s-1740s

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Act of religious toleration

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Granted freedom of worship

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Jamestown

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(1607) first permanent settlement in North America

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Halfway covenant

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(1662) reflected a shift of established colonies toward secular values

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Mayflower compact

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Established an orderly government based on consent of the governed

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French and Indian war

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French and Britain disputes over territories in the Ohio valley. France lost most North American holdings

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Proclamation of 1763

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Colonists forbidden to settle west of Appalachian mountains

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John Locke

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Believed government should protect the rights of life, liberty, property

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Thomas Hobbes

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Advocate of absolute power

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Jean-Jacques rosseau

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Political authority lies with the people

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Montesquieu

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Government power divided: legislative, executive, judicial

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Articles of confederation

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Developed in a single chamber congress to settle disputes between states

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Treaty of Paris (1783)

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Declared the U.S. An independent nation; Boundaries of Canada, Mississippi, and Florida

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Treaty of Paris (1898)

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Due to Spanish-american war the U.S. Obtained Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam

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Quartering act

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Required colonists to pay for maintaining British troops in America

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Article I, II, and III of the constitution

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I. Legislative
II. Executive
III. Judicial

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1st amendment

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Freedom of speech, religion, press, and peaceable assembly

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13th amendment

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Abolished slavery

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14th amendment

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Civil right to born US citizens

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15th amendment

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Gave African American men the right to vote

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16th amendment

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Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes

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18th amendment
Prohibited alcohol
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19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote
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Formation of the constitution
Largely written by Thomas Jefferson
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Federalist papers
85 essays defending the constitution
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Anti-federalists
Wanted bill of rights/strong state government
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Alexander Hamilton
Federalist, treasury secretary
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Thomas Jefferson
Republican
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"Popular sovereignty"
The right to vote
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Bill of rights
First 10 amendments to the constitution
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The Declaration of Independence
Listed grievances against Britain, developed principle for new government
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
Scott sues for freedom on grounds that his owner took him to a free state
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Marbury v. Madison
The court case that established judicial review
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McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819) established federal immunity from states taxation
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The Marshall court
Refers to the Supreme Court of the U.S between 1801 and 1835, when John Marshall served as Chief Justice
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Monroe doctrine
(1823) declared that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to European colonization
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War of 1812
Fought against Great Britain due to their interference with american shipping
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Preconditions to civil war
A. US constitution protected slavery, contrasts the Declaration of Independence
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Eli Whitney
Inventor; cotton gin
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Jefferson Davis
President of the confederate states of America during the American civil war
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Compromise of 1850
Required northerners to assist in captures- fugitive slave law
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Missouri compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and extended a line at 36'30 to divide territories based on the institution of slavery
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Manifest destiny
The belief that the U.S. Should own North American land to the Pacific Ocean
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"Uncle tom's cabin"
By Harriet Beecher stowe's ; represents the evils of slavery
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The emancipation proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued this legislation freeing the slaves in states fighting the union
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Black codes
Laws passed by southern states after the civil war restricting African Americans freedom and compelling them to work
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Jim Crow laws
Racial segregation laws
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John brown's raid
Brown and 18 followers seize federal arsenal @ harpers ferry and attempt to start a slave uprising
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Secession
South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas seceded from the union and became confederate states
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Gettysburg
(July 1-3, 1863) largest defeat of confederate troops in the civil war
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Lincoln's ten percent plan
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction
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Appomattox court house
Lee surrenders to grant (April 9,1865)
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Abolitionists
Believed they had the authority to prohibit slavery
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Suffragists
Voters
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Marcus Garvey
A Jamaican political leader of the black nationalism
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W.E.B Dubois
Founded the Niagra movement, calling for full equality (1905)
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Booker T. Washington
An African American advisor to presidents of the US and a dominant leader in the black community
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Carpetbaggers/ scalawags
Republicans that played a role in shaping new southern governments during reconstruction
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"Bleeding Kansas"
The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory
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Kansas-Nebraska act
Repealed the Missouri compromise, allowing for popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in each of those states
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Morrill land grant act
Provided free land to states for "agricultural and mechanical colleagus"
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Homestead act
Gave Land to any citizen who never neared arms against the U.S.
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Freedman's bureau
Gave food, shelter, and education to newly freed slaves
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Theodore Roosevelt
Won the 1904 election
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Roosevelt corollary
Stated that the U.S. Reserved the right to intervene in Latin America
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William Howard Taft
Elected president in 1908
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Dollar diplomacy
Taft encouraged investments in Latin America
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Open door policy
Proposed China be open for trade to all countries
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Food lever act
Mobilized food and fuel resources for World War I
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Indian removal act
Relocation of Indian tribes (reservations)
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Taft-Hartley act
Monitors the activities and power of labor unions
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Teapot dome scandal
Scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves of the interior, Albert bacon fall
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Gentlemen's agreement
Limited Japanese immigration in the U.S. In 1907
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Social Darwinism
Belief that the rich are superior to the poor
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Purity crusaders
Sought to end immoral or corrupt behavior
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Pullman strike
President Cleveland sent federal troops to end the protest of the American railway union
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Haymarket riot
Radicals protesting the killing and wounding of several workers by Chicago police
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Labor unions
Representatives of workers in many industries
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Populist party
Represents the common folk
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Chinese exclusion act
Prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
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Settlement houses
Mixing middle class people with low-income people
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The spoils system
The act of winning parties rewards its campaign workers giving government jobs
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Sherman anti-trust act
Congress Prohibits trusts
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Bland-Allison act
Required the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars
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Interstate commerce act
Made the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation
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The Mexican war
Mexico lost 1/3 of its territory
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USS Maine
Battleship that blew up in Havana harbor during the Spanish-american war
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Spanish-american war
Gained Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines
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William McKinley
25th president of the U.S.
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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
Added an additional 525,000 square miles to US territory
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The great white fleet
US navy fleet sent around the world to show naval dominance
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Alfred T. Mahan
A US navy navy admiral with the "sea power" concept
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Graft
Political "bosses" used position to gain profit
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Tammany hall
Democratic Party that played a role in controlling New York's politics
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Boss tweed
Convicted in 1873/died in jail
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Lost generation
A group of writers who became of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920's
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Monopolies
An enterprise that is the only seller of a good or service
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Americanization
The influence the U.S. Has on the culture of other countries

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