| A | B |
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| Early colony that people disappeared mysteriously from | Roanoke |
| word left behind at Roanoke | croatoan |
| 1st success north american colony | Jamestown |
| starving times | Jamestown got bad and people ran out of food and died. They even turned to cannibalism. |
| Captain John Smith | early leader of Jamestown and helped make the colony a success |
| Squanto | Native who taught Puritans how to farm |
| Puritans | Religious group that settled and create a new colony in North America |
| Pennsylvania settlers were mostly what? religious group | Quakers |
| indentured servants | would agree to work for those that paid their voyages to America - around 5-7 years |
| French and Indian Wars | 1754-1763 great britain v France was |
| Proclamation Line 1763 | after french and Indian war -colonists were told they could move west of this line. To try and pacify Native American - |
| Stamp Act | an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. |
| Townshend Acts | The Townshend Acts placed an indirect tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. These goods were not produced within the colonies and had to be imported from Britain. |
| British opened fire on a crowd that was harrassing British soldiers -five were killed | Boston Massacre of 1770 |
| People upset in colonies with unfair monopoly on tea that the British East India Company got so they did this is 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| In response to poor behavior of colonists, the British passed these acts in 1774 | Intolerable Acts |
| American Revolution | war to separate North American colonies from Great Britain |
| Lexington and Concord | first battles of the American Revolution 1775 |
| Declaration of Independence | when the US wrote a list of reasons why they were separating from the British government |
| Yorktown | last battle of the American Revolution |
| Articles of Confederation | early document that established the first form of government in America |
| States power | the article of confederation major problem |
| Virginia Plan | new government that would be formed -representatives based upon size of population of each state |
| New Jersey Plan | representatives based upon same number for each state |
| Great Compromise | Representative Plan that combined Virginia and New Jersey plans |
| Thee -Fifths Compromise | Slaves would could towards part of the representative numbers |
| Whiskey Rebellion | 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government |
| Federalist | wanted a strong central government |
| Anti-Federalists | worried about what a strong federal government would do...they got the Bill of Rights attached to the Constitution |
| 1794 battle in which Natives lost to Americans in Ohio-turned to British for help, but they wouldn't let them in their fort | Fallen Timbers |
| XYZ Affair | diplomatic crisis between USA and France |
| Quasi-Naval War 1798-1800 USA vs | France |
| tie in what presidential elections | 1800- Jefferson and Burr |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 USA purchased large amount of land from France |
| Lewis and Clark | explored Louisiana territory -claimed Northwest too |
| Burr killed who in a duel | Hamilton |
| President who named last minute judge = called midnight judges | Adams |
| Judicial Review | Supreme Court took on this power-where they can look at the constitutional validity of a legislative act |
| Tecumseh | Native American leader who built a confederacy in the Midwest against US expansion...died fighting with the British in the war of 1812 |
| Britain v. USA -many US men being pressed or forced to work on British ships -lead to | war of 1812 |
| Become a president, rose to fame during war of 1812-fought Natives and British | Andrew Jackson |
| Trail of Tears | forced removal of Natives west-many died along the route |
| Tariff crisis 1828 | South Carolina almost seceded from US over this issue before the Civil War |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. And prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 | It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery |
| suffrage | movement for women to gain the right to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | Suffrage activist arrested for voting |
| 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote -1920 |
| 13th Amendment | ended slavery |
| Twelve Years a Slave | Story of Solomon Northup about being kidnapped and forced into slavery in Louisiana |
| Manifest Destiny | Americans right to move West |
| Oregon Trail | Route people took west |
| Mexican-American War | Mexico and US go to war 1846-1848 |
| Alamo | Texans defeated by Mexico -tried to become independent |
| treaty of guadalupe hidalgo | US got entire Southwest added to its territory from Mexico after Mexican-American War |
| Abraham Lincoln | president during Civil War who advocated no slavery in the West and eventually later no slavery at all |
| Emancipation Proclamation | ended slavery in south -Civil War rebellious states |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from Union starting the Civil War |
| bloodiest battle of the Civil War | Antietam |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated Lincoln (April 14 1865- died 15th) |
| Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War where rights were given to African-Americans like the right to vote |
| Southern Democrats | leaders in the south who wanted segregation and to go back to the old ways |
| Rutherford B Hayes | president who ended Reconstruction to come to power in the 1876 election |
| Industrial Revolution | mass production of consumer goods |
| Vanderbilt | Railroads |
| Carnegie | Steel |
| Rockefeller | Oil |
| Labor Unions | groups that formed to represent workers and fight for them -better working conditions and pay etc. |
| The Jungle | story about meat packing industry in Chicago- really gross! |
| Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt- inspection and standards for food production -safety for consumers |
| Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 in Colorado -a large group of Natives killed by mostly 100 dayers - while under protection of the US army |
| Bear Creek Massacre | Idaho 1863- a Native group in winter camp attack in retribution of attacks on white settlers - over 250 killed |
| Ghost Dance | Lakota people believed performing this would help end white men's authority over them and restore balance to the land |
| Dawes Severalty Act | if natives moved off reservations would get their own lands -disaster -many lost lands b/c didn't have equipment to farm |
| Homestead Act | 1862-encourage people to move west -if move there for 5 years would get 160 acres of land |
| Benjamin Harrison | Indiana president (full term) famous for Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| Plessy v Ferguson | 1896 Court Case that upheld the legality of segregation |
| Spanish -American War | 1898- US took Puerto Rico and Philippines from Spain |
| 1894 | Hawaii became a Republic (Dole) after the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani |
| Ellis Island | Immigration center on the East Coast |
| Angel Island | Immigration center on the West Coast |
| Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 | Prohibited Chinese immigration for the most part- fueled by job competition and racism |
| LA Riots in 1871 | largest group lynched in USA history where Chinese at this attack |
| 1917 Immigration Act | Prohibited Asian immigration or those countries by Asian countries and set ideas on undesirables to keep out |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Set quotas or limits on the number of immigrants from each country to restrict immigration-based on 1890 census data |
| Progressive Era | Reforms aimed at improving society - poverty, conservation, better working conditions etc. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive president famous for land conservation |
| Archduke France Ferdiand | His assassination started WW1 -June 28, 1914 |
| Triple Entente | Britain, France, Russia |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire |
| Serbia had an alliance with | Russia |
| Schlieffen Plan | German plan- attacked France first and quickly defeat and then attack Russia |
| Gallipoli Campaign | 1915 unsuccessful campaign to get supplies to Russia |
| US declared war b/c | Zimmerman Note |
| US declared war when | April 6, 1917 |
| Russia -1917 the tsar stepped down (Feb Revolution) and later Lenin rose to power in October (October Revolution) he was a | communist |
| Brest-Litovsk | withdrew Russia from WWI in 1918 |
| Verdun | fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916, was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. |
| Treaty of Versailles | signed June 28, 1919 officially ending WWI |
| fourteen Point Plan | President Wilson's plan to encourage diplomacy and peace at the end of WWI |
| League of Nations | President Wilson idea- body where countries could go and resolve conflicts to ensure a war like this would never be fought again |
| Did the US ratify the Treaty of Versailles | NO |
