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American History review
Review for cummalinative test in Butler
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History
10th Grade
02/23/2009

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The first successful colony in America?
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Jamestown, Virginia
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Protestand Reformation
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Founded by Martin Luther, he nailed his complaints against the Catholic church door and argued that God's word was expressed only through the bible.
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Why was the Plymouth Bay colony established?
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a group of separatists in Holland came for religious freedom. (1620)
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New England Confederation
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formed in 1643, made only of Puritan colonies for protection from outside attack
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Pennsylvania, why was it founded and by who?
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A group of quakers, headed by William Penn, who was given the territory because the king owed his dad a large debt.
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Indentured Servants
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workers brought in from England to work on farms, in exchange for trans-atlantic passage. They were eventually given their freedom along w/ few other things as they went on their way.
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Reason for the rise of slavery in the colonies around the 1680's
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wages were raising in England so not as many indentured servants were interested in coming over to America
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The New England Family in colonial days
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men often died young, widows were given the rights to inherit land from their dead husbands
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Half-way convenant
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Hay Pacefot (1901)
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treaty between the U.S. and Britain that gave the U.S. the right to build the Panama Canal without British Interference
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Gentlemen's Agreement (1908)
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Japanese agreed to restrict emigration of Japanese workers to United States if Roosevelt pressured California to repeal segregation laws
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Compromise of 1850
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not about slavery in Nebraska, balanced slave and free states
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Factor in decline of the Whig Party
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the Know Nothing Party (nativists that were scared that U.S. was being overtaken by Irish Catholic immigrants
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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written by Stephen A. Douglas, declared popular soverinity
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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did not attempt to reconcile popular soverinity with Dred Scott decision
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Dred Scott decision
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ruled that any people brought into the country of African Descent could not be citizens and congress could not go act against slavery
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John Brown
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tried to arm slaves for a rebellion but failed
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Election of 1860
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Lincoln said slavery would not expand to new territories; republicans won presidency; NOT CONGRESS neither won popular vote, several southern states seceeded after election because of fear Lincoln would abolish slavery
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North advantages in Civil War
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superior railroad, navy, could produce more, and had an agreement on war aims
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original Union Strategy in Civil War
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to bockade and control Missippi (anaconda method), and keep border states that had factories
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Civil War did not cause
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industrial production
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