| A | B |
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| Jamestown | first permanent English colony |
| House of Burgesses | first elected assembly in the New World |
| House of Burgesses | now known as the Virginia General Assembly |
| Mayflower Compact | established a "covenant community" in Puritan New England |
| First Slaves arrive at jamestown | occurred because of the development of the agricultural economy in the Couth |
| Great Awakening | sweeping religious movementthrough teh colonies in the mid 1700s |
| Middle Passage | slave trade route across the Atlantic |
| Cavaliers | noble who received land grants from the king to settle in VA |
| Founding of Rhode Island | happened because the Puritans were intolerant of dissenters |
| Quakers | settled inPennsylvania |
| Catholics | settled in Maryland |
| Common Sense | pamphlet that increased American revolutionary spirit |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbid settlers from moving past the Appalachian Mountains |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists, to protest the tea tax, dumped tea in Boston Harbor |
| First Continental Congress | first time that the colonies worked together |
| Boston Massacre | British troops fired on American anti-British protesters |
| Lexington and Concord | first shots of the revolutionary war |
| Yorktown | with French help the Aericans defeated the British in this final battle |
| Constitutional Convention | was called to rewrite the Articles of Confederation |
| Election of 1800 | first time political power was peacefully transferred between two political parties |
| first political parties | developed in the late 1790s, Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans |
| Marbury v. Madison | Supreme Court Case that established the policy of "Judicial Review" |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court case that said that states cannot tax the national govenment |
| War of 1812 | event between the U.S. and England, over the impressment of American sailors |
| invention of the cotton gin | led to the creation of the cotton kingdom and an increase in slavery in the South |
| Mexican American War | was that allowed the US to gain CA and much of the southwestern territories |
| Louisiana Purchase | land deal that doubled the size of the US |
| Trail of Tears | forced removal of the Cherokee from GA to Oklahoma |
| Panic of 1837 | economic situationthat resulted from speculation and led to bank failures |
| admission of new states | created tension over the balance in the Senate between free and slave states |
| Missouri Compromise | allowed 2 states to enter the Union, establish a blueprint for how to deal with slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | admitted CA as a free state and allowed popular sovereignty in the SW territories |
| Bloody Kansas | violent event between pro and anti-slavery forces |
| Lincoln Douglas Debate | organized arguments over the expansion of slavery in 1858 |
| Dred Scott case | Supreme Court case overturned Fugitive Act |
| Election of 1860 | prompted secession of 7 southern states |
| Fort Sumter | first shots of the Civil war |
| Battle of Antietam | bloody Union victory, that allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg | major Union victory, it was the turning point of the Civil War |
| Appomattox | site of Lee's surrender to GRant |
| Lincoln's Assasination | event that allowed the Radical REpublicans to control reconstruction |
| Civil War Amendments | ended slavery and established equal rights and voting rights for formaer slaves |
| Compromise of 1877 | event that ended Reconstruction |
| Jim Crow era | a time in the South where blacks were limited by racist laws |
