American History

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• Freedom
• Political liberty
• Religious freedom
• Economic opportunity
• Escape persecution

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• American Indians
• Native Americans

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• Africans
• People from Africa

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• American Revolution
• The (American) Revolutionary War
• War for (American) Independence

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• High taxes
• Taxation without representation
• British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses (boarding, quartering)
• They did not have self-government
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party (Tea Act)
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable (Coercive) Acts

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• (Thomas) Jefferson

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• July 4, 1776

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• (Battle of) Bunker Hill
• Declaration of Independence
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton)
• (Battle of) Saratoga
• Valley Forge (Encampment)
• (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)

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• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

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• (U.S.) Constitution

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• (James) Madison
• (Alexander) Hamilton
• (John) Jay
• Publius

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• They helped people understand the (U.S.) Constitution.
• They supported passing the (U.S.) Constitution.

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• Founded the first free public libraries
• First Postmaster General of the United States
• Helped write the Declaration of Independence
• Inventor
• U.S. diplomat

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• "Father of Our Country"
• First president of the United States
• General of the Continental Army
• President of the Constitutional Convention

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• Writer of the Declaration of Independence
• Third president of the United States
• Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase)
• First Secretary of State
• Founded the University of Virginia
• Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom

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• "Father of the Constitution"
• Fourth president of the United States
• President during the War of 1812
• One of the writers of the Federalist Papers

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• First Secretary of the Treasury
• One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
• Helped establish the First Bank of the United States
• Aide to General George Washington
• Member of the Continental Congress

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• Louisiana Territory
• Louisiana

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• War of 1812
• Mexican-American War
• Civil War
• Spanish-American War

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• The Civil War

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• (Battle of) Fort Sumter
• Emancipation Proclamation
• (Battle of) Vicksburg
• (Battle of) Gettysburg
• Sherman's March
• (Surrender at) Appomattox
• (Battle of) Antietam/Sharpsburg
• Lincoln was assassinated.

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• Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
• Saved (or preserved) the Union
• Led the United States during the Civil War
• 16th president of the United States
• Delivered the Gettysburg Address

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• Freed the slaves
• Freed slaves in the Confederacy
• Freed slaves in the Confederate states
• Freed slaves in most Southern states

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• The Civil War

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• 14th Amendment

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• After the Civil War
• During Reconstruction
• (With the) 15th Amendment
• 1870

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• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Lucretia Mott
• Lucy Stone

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• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• (Persian) Gulf War

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• Because Germany attacked U.S. (civilian) ships
• To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia)
• To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria)

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• 1920
• After World War I
• (With the) 19th Amendment

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• Longest economic recession in modern history

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• The Great Crash (1929)
• Stock market crash of 1929

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• (Franklin) Roosevelt

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• (Bombing of) Pearl Harbor
• Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
• To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia)
• To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)

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• General during World War II
• President at the end of (during) the Korean War
• 34th president of the United States
• Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System)

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• Soviet Union
• USSR
• Russia

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• Communism
• Nuclear war

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• To stop the spread of communism

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• To stop the spread of communism

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• Fought to end racial discrimination

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• Fought for civil rights
• Worked for equality for all Americans
• Worked to ensure that people would "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

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• To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait

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• Terrorists attacked the United States
• Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City
• Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia
• Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania

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• (Global) War on Terror
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq

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• Apache
• Blackfeet
• Cayuga
• Cherokee
• Cheyenne
• Chippewa
• Choctaw
• Creek
• Crow
• Hopi
• Huron
• Inupiat
• Lakota
• Mohawk
• Mohegan
• Navajo
• Oneida
• Onondaga
• Pueblo
• Seminole
• Seneca
• Shawnee
• Sioux
• Teton
• Tuscarora

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• Light bulb
• Automobile (cars, internal combustion engine)
• Skyscrapers
• Airplane
• Assembly line
• Landing on the moon
• Integrated circuit (IC)

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