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Leif Erikson a Viking explorer. He found Vineland which is modern day Nova Scotia

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He wanted to find a new trade route to India. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain sponsored the trip.

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The pilgrims/separatist came for freedom. The first form of government was the Mayflower Compact.

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The Colonist versus Great Britain. They didn't want taxation without representation.

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Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) 

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Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) 

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Main author was Thomas Jefferson. Formally separated the U.S to England.

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Philadelphia in independence hall is where it took place. The "Father of the Constitution" is James Madison.

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The idea that the United States need to be expanded from the East to the West Coast.

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Thomas Jefferson bought it from France because they were in debt. It doubled the United States for 15 million dollars.

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Also called the "second war of independence" We had this war because of Britain's trade restriction and impressing American Citizens. This is one of two times the white house was burned down.

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Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner. The Battle of Fort McHenry was a part of the war of 1812 the day before he wrote the Star Spangled Banner in Maryland.

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President Polk had a belief in Manifest destiny and believed that Texas and California was ours. Treaty of Hidalgo was the treaty that the president signed selling over Texas and California.

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Started with saying that Succession was unconstitutional and then turned into slavery.

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Emancipation Proclamation  ( January 1, 1863)

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Emancipation Proclamation  ( January 1, 1863)

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Free Slaves ONLY in the confederate states. ONLY during war time.

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United States and Cuba versus Spain. They send the USS Maine in the Havana and it blows up. This was what started the declaring of war. Rough Riders included Teddy Roosevelt (a group of people who fought because they needed more people due to the civil war) and they fought which ended the war.

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Major change in a lot of moral issues. Child Labor laws, EPA, Branding on cans, protecting National Resources, Muckrakers, getting rid of monopoly. National American Women Suffrage Association. The 19th Amendment passed (Women's Right to Vote) 1920.

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Tank Warfare and Trench Warfare. The US didn't get into the war in 1917, because they blew up a ship with 120 Americans on it. They called it the 'Great War' of the 'war to end all wars' It started with the assassination's of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Paris Peace conference between the Allies and the Central Powers, the treaty ultimately failed.

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An international diplomatic group developed after WW1. Precursor to the United Nations. It failed and we had WWII. The main purpose was to solve disputes or problems before it leads to warfare. Woodrow Wilson was really pushing it but he eventually dies and congress doesn't join. The downfall of the league is when WWII breaks out and big member wanted to be neutral.

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Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started the National American Women Suffrage Association. They wanted to make an amendment to the constitution making it legal for women to vote. The 19th Amendment says that no one can be denied voting based on sex.

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The Great Depression and Black Thursday (1929-1939)

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The Great Depression and Black Thursday (1929-1939)

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During the 20's the stock market was huge! Anyone could take out a loan through the stock market. On Oct. 24, 2929 the market opened and immediately fell 11% and people had to pay off their loans. It hit rock bottom in 1932 in the middle of the depression. The dust bowl was because the farmers were incentivized to farm and then the price of wheat dropped and over farming happened and the dust was blown up everywhere because of the drought. Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the great depression with the new deal and other programs.

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Hitler believed the Jews were an inferior race and a threat to Germany. He wanted 'pure genes'. People in the Holocaust were put into concentration camps to be used for labor and kept under hard conditions. Extermination camps was where they would go to basically die because they weren't "useful." 1933 was the first Concentration Camp outside of Munich. 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.

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Happened in Ohawa in Hawaii. The next day the US joined the war. It happened because they were hurting China and so we stopped trading Oil.

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Allies versus the Axis. Adolf Hitler wanted all the land back from WWI *They invaded Poland) and they were trying to get land money and people. Japan wanted China. Pearl Harbor started when the US join. Atomic bombs were the last thing to really end the war in Japan.

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After Pearl Harbor they took all of the Japanese Americans and made them leave their homes for interment camps.

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Pretty much league of nations 2.0. Located in New York Today we have 193 countries in it. Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the Phrase.

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Harry S. Truman gave a speech called the faithful hour basically saying that we do not stand for communism. We are going to step in to defend democracy. This was the start of cold war.

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The arms race. We armed ourselves with nuclear weapons. The iron curtain is the imaginary curtain between democracy and communism. Not a single bullet was fired but it was more of a fear of war.

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North Korea supported communism, and South Korea wanted capitalisms and so they split (the 38th parallel) which lead to the war. In 2018 the president of North Korea signed a peace treaty with the Dictator of North Korea

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Brown vs. Board of Education
(1954) overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson (Separate but equal) the result was ending the legal desegregation in schools. Rosa Parks doesn't give up her seat in the bus (1955). The US Congress passes the Civil Rights act of 1957. The March on Washington and MLK's I have a dream speech. MLK was assassinated in 1968.

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Public schools are to be integrated due to Brown vs. Board of Education. They chose 9 students to integrate into Central High School in Little rock. The governor sent the National Guard to keep them from entering the school. Pres. Eisenhower sent over 1,000 members of the Army to lead the charge to escort the Little Rock 9 to high school safe.

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Vietnam has a split, very similar to the Korea war, so there was north vietnam and south vietnam. America sends troops to help South Vietnam because North believed in communism. We do not win and North Vietnam takes over.

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Richard Nixon wanted to win the election and so he stole classified documents and bugged phone lines. He did win the election but reporters found he was involved. He didn't turn in the tapes, but when he did he erased parts. He then resigned because he knew he was going to be impeached. This was the start of mistrust between the people and politicians.

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Iraq wanted to seize Kuwait. We did not like this. The UN pretty much gave him an Ultimatum. Once they didn't follow they sent in troops to fight. We won and Iraqi troops ceased. Operation Desert Storm was how we won.

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This was a terrorist attack where they attacked the twin towers, the pentagon, and most likely the white house. 4 planes were hijacked and did suicide crashes into the targets. The people on flight 93 took back the airplane and crashed it into a field in Pennsylvania. It happened because Osama Bin Laden wanted to send a message to America that he disagreed with us

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We were worried that Iraq was building nukes. This was especially scary after 9/11. We did not like Iraq's support of al-Qaeda. It was a big political problem of when to bring the troops home. We eventually did in 2011.