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Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
-->sent by Spanish
-->started Columbian exchange
-->Spanish set encomiendas within region

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1607: Jamestown established as England's first successful permanent colony

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1607: Jamestown established as England's first successful permanent colony

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-->John Smith (leader, brought tobacco to colony and with it financial wealth
-->modern day VA
-->joint stock economy (investor based)
-->indentured servants used

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1730s: Great Awakening and Enlightenment

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1730s: Great Awakening and Enlightenment

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-->Great Awakening: old light vs new light
John Edwards: congregationalist, message about predestination
George Whitfield: evangelical, church outdoors to people
-->Enlightenment: questioning tradition with science and morals
John Locke: natural rights
Montisque: sep. of powers
-->basis of revolutionary thought with founding fathers

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1754: Albany Plan and French and Indian War

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1754: Albany Plan and French and Indian War

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-->Albany Plan
Ben Franklin: creator, enlightenment man
inter-colonial defense vua gov.t plans
not accepted
-->French and Indian War (ends 1963)
George Washington: soldier
colonists fought for Ohio River territory
British won; didn't let colonists settle
anti-British sentiment starts

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-->forbade travel past app mountains
-->enraged colonists
-->begin of British ending salutary neglect (laze faire leading)
-->major turning point

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1776: Common Sense and Declaration of Independence

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1776: Common Sense and Declaration of Independence

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Common Sense
-->Thomas Paine (author)
-->explain patriots side for needing revolution; shifted public perception for independence
Declaration of Independence
-->Thomas Jefferson (author, founding father)
-->discussed abused suffered from the British crown and fundamental goals should the US become independent

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-->signed by Ben Franklin, John Adams and Jay
-->gave US land beyond proclamation and independence
-->end Rev. War

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-->first president under modern Constitution
-->Jefferson (sec. of state), Hamilton (treasury)
-->created nat.l bank, Hamilton's plan to eliminate war debt, neutrality proclamation, no 3rd term precedent, Pinckney treaty

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-->Thomas Jefferson vs Aaron Burr
-->Aaron (political rival of Hamilton)
-->Jefferson won b/c federalists left too much debt in office
(serious debate over politicians should strictly adhere or loosely interpret constitution)

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-->Henry Clay ("The Great Negotiator", senator)
-->Missouri enter US as a slave state, Maine carved out of Massachusetts as a free state
-->no slave state past the 36 30 parallel beyond the Louisiana purchase

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-->Andrew Jackson (president)
-->allowed gov.t to exchange land from east to west to pay off any losses
-->resulted in tribes (ex: Cherokee) being placed in reservations and 1/4 population dying on the way there

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-->Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas (senator)
-->California as a free state, Utah and Kansas territories would have popular sovereignty (voter choice) over slave/free statehood
-->stronger fugitive slave law
-->abolished slave trade in DC
-->caused Bloody Kansa

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-->republican president
-->following his unprecedented election (barely being known to the public), South Carolina succeeded from Union
-->7 states followed and became the Confederate states of America
-->Jefferson Davis (first and last president of confederate states)

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1865: Civil War Ends, Assassination, and Reconstruction

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1865: Civil War Ends, Assassination, and Reconstruction

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-->Lincoln assassinated by confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Boothe
-->reconstruction of South began
-->originally easy on south, Congress later took control after no change in the South and put it under military control and enforcements

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-->Tilden vs Hayes
-->Hayes wins via electoral votes
-->in return for Hayes winning, trooped withdrawal from South, ending recontstruction
-->less rights for black people in the south almost immediately
-->gov.t sent money to South for their own transcontinental railroad

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-->William McKinley (president)
-->Joesph Pulitzer (yellow journalist, sensationalized USS Maine)
-->Theodore Roosevelt (war hero)
-->"Splendid Little War": short timespan, little deaths
-->US gained Philippines, Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico
-->established America as an imperialist force

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-->Theodore Roosevelt (president)
-builds onto Monroe Doctrine (America is dominant force in Western Hemisphere)
-big stick policy (showcasing extreme military prowess with navy was made easier by having a shortcut)

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-->FDR (democrat) vs Herber Hoover (republican)
-->created party switch (democrats=more liberal)
-->started New Deal era government and expanded federal power

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Yalta Conference:
-->FDR(US), Stalin (USSR), and Churchill (UK)
-->discussed post-war reorganization of Europe post fall of Germany
-->disagreement from Stalin swearing that Poland would be democratic when they made it become a satellite state
Manhattan Project:
-->A-bomb
-->New Mexico
-->Fat man and little boy
-->Harry Truman sent bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WW2
-->it worked

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Gulf of Tolkien Incident:
-->president Lyndon B Johnson used false reports of US naval ships being attacked by Viet forces as an excuse to go full throttle into the Vietnam war
-->spawned hundreds of anti-war sentiment and protests
Civil Rights Act of 1968:
-->Martin Luther King assassinated
-->prohibited discrimination based on race, sex, religion, and nation origin in employment and housing

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-->Ronald Regan (face of new conservative movement) against Jimmy Carter ("failed" president)
-->broke key figure in New Deal coalition; half a century democrat dominance, took more than 50 percent of blue collar votes

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-->September 9th attacks
-->Osama Bin Laden (leader of Al Quidea, extremist muslim terrorist organization)
-->George Bush (president during time)
-->lead to "total war on terror"
-->Iraq war and Afghanistan war/military invasion by American troops
-->highly expensive and controversial