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- Leif Erikson
- Vinland = Modern Day Canada

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- Christopher Columbus
- Had a mission from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (they financed his trip) Spain
- His mission was to find a new route to India to make trade/imports easier
- His trip was not a success at the time

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- Protestants (aka Pilgrims) were Separatists
- Travelers included merchants, craftsmen, indentured servants, orphans, and Protestants

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- France and Spain helped the Americans
- General George Washington
- Battle of Yorktown (we won!)
- Cause: Tax without Representation
- ended with treaty of paris

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July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence 

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July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence 

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- Writer: Thomas Jefferson
- It separated us from England
- Signing it was a death warrant

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- May 14 to September 17
- needed to revise the Articles of Confederation
- meetings were in Philadelphia, Liberty Hall

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- John L. O'Sullivan (coined the term)
- the belief that the US was destined to expand across North America (east coast to west coast)

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- $15 Million (3 cents an acre)
- Best real estate deal ever!
- doubled the size of the US
- President: Thomas Jefferson
- Lewis and Clark explored it

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- aka the "2nd War of Independence"
- Britain tried to restrict trade between the US and France
- the British burned down the White House
- the British kidnapped US sailors for their navy (impressing our citizens)
- Treaty of Ghent ended the war
- Andrew Jackson led us to victory

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- September 14, 1814
- Author: Francis Scott Key
- written during the War of 1812 (Fort McHenry Battle)

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- or "US Invasion"
- Cause: President James K. Polk wanted Mexico's land (California, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Arizona)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war

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- North States (Union) NO slaves
- South States (Confederacy) State's rights
- President Abraham Lincoln
- North states never recognized that the South seceded

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- January 1, 1863
- by Abraham Lincoln
- It did not end slavery completely
- it was only applicable to the Southern (rebellious) States

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- April 21 to December 10, 1898
- Rough Riders: 1st US Volunteer Army
- one leader was Teddy Roosevelt
- U.S.S. Maine was sunk, which brought US into the war
- U.S. and Cuba vs Spain

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- "Growing Pains"
- President Teddy Roosevelt
- Muckrakers (journalists) wrote to expose corruption
- Social injustices = voting for women, segregation, lynching
- Amendments 16, 17, 18, 19

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- US joined the war 1917
- Began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife
- Allied Powers: Great Britain, Russia, France, and Belgium
- Central Powers: Germany, Austra, Hungary, Bulgaria
- Treaty of Versailles
- "The Great War"

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- try to solve disputes between countries
- US did not join
- President Woodrow Wilson
- Not very successful
- Ended during World War 2

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- Women's right to vote
- Susan B. Anthony: activist
- Women's suffrage association
- NAWSA (National American Women's Suffrage Association)

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- Causes: Stock market crash, bank failure, dust bowl
- crash = panic = bank runs = bank failure
- deflation: prices drop, cut cost, laid off workers

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- Stock Market Crash
- October 24
- Black Tuesday, October 29, stock prices collapse completely

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- Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
- targeted jews, LGBTQ, etc.
- Concentration Camps
- 6 million people

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- December 7
- Japanese bombed US battleships

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- Axis - Germany, Italy, Japan
- Allied- US, France, Great Britain, USSR, China
- USA joined December 8, 1941
- Started with the invasion of Poland

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- During WW2
- It happened because of Pearl Harbor
- President Roosevelt

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- Started October 24
- Started with 50 countries
- Based in New York City
- League of Nations part 2
- Purpose: to protect human rights for ALL people

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- March 12, 1947
- Wanted to contain communism, not allow it to spread to small nations
- Domino Effect

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- US vs Soviet Union
- Iron Curtain (East and West)
- Space Race, Arms Race, etc.

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- North vs. South
- North = Communism
- Truman Doctrine instigated it
- ended in "cease fire"
- Peace treaty signed 2018
- 1953 no more fighting

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- started with Brown vs. Board of Education
- next, Rosa Parks and bus boycott
- Then, Martin Luther King Jr. & the march on Washington (1963)
- 1964 = Voting Rights Act
- 1968 = Civil Rights Act

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- preacher, nonviolence, civil disobedience, and boycotts
- "I Have A Dream" Speech!

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- Supreme Court Case in Topeka, Kansas
- Oliver Brown sued public schools on behalf of Linda Brown

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- 9 Black students were forced to enroll at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
- Needed to have US military protection
- People did NOT like this at all!

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- North = Communism
- South = No Communism
- Gorilla/Jungle like warfare
- Chemical warfare used
- Result = One Communist Nation
- Draft. You could avoid it by going to college

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- President Nixon
- All about a cover-up, not the burglary
- Watergate = Democratic Headquarters
- Nixon resigned in 1974

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- Dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait
- President George H. W. Bush
- Saddam Hussein = Hitler
- Hussein did not allow US to go in and investigate for weapons of mass destruction
- We crushed them, many of their lives lost

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- 8:45am-10:30am
- Osama Bin-Laden = Leader of Al-Queda
- World Trade Centers & Pentagon

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- Saddam Hussein (Dictator)
- President Bush (jr.)
- Iraq was creating weapons of mass destruction