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COLONIZATION
REVOLUTION
CONSTITUTION
WESTWARD EXPANSION
CIVIL WAR
100
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
What is Middle Colonies?
100
Colonists destroy 342 chests of tea at Boston Harbor
What is The Boston Tea Party?
100
America's first form of government after the American Revolution-had many weaknesses
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
1803, Thomas Jefferson-doubles the size of America
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100

Plan that was used during the Battle of Vicksburg to control the ississippi River

What was the Anaconda Plan?

200
Colonists cannot move west of the Appalachian Mt.
What is Proclamation of 1763?
200
General of the Continental Army, first president of the U.S.
Who is George Washington?
200
First 10 Amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
200

These people rushed to California for jobs with the gold and later worked on the railroads.

Who were the Chinese?

200
When a slave escapes to the North, the slave's owner can bring the slave back to the South
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
Cold, rocky soil, mountainous, forests, many rivers, and poor farming
What is New England?
300

Turning Point of the American Revolution

What is the Battle of Saratoga?

300

2 house legislature-house of rep. based on population, senate: each state has two senators

What is the Great Compromise?

300
Believe that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent-Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
First form of self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400

Principle in which the powers of the state and federal governments are shared.

What is Federalism?

400

Teas and Florida were previously occupied by this country

What is Spain?

400
April 12, 1861-Confederate forces fired upon
What is Fort Sumter?
500
Flat open plains, good for farming, fertile soil, HOT summers, abundance of slaves
What is Southern Colonies?
500
The first battle of the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
500

Was ratified on September 17, 1787

What is the Constitution?

500
California comes in as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500

Delivered by President Lincoln during the Civil War-one of the greatest speeches in American history

What is the Gettysburg Address?