American History

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  1. 3. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain
  2. 4. Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves
  3. 5. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
  4. 8. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
  5. 11. founding father who served as the third president
  6. 12. The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  7. 14. was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787
  8. 17. was an American social reformer and abolitionist
  9. 18. war ended with the treaty of paris in 1763
  10. 20. an act of the British Parliament in 1765 to get revenue from America by imposing a stamp duty
  11. 22. On November 29, 1864, peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado
  12. 23. was a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature
  13. 27. a person that is anti slavery
  14. 28. This act, passed on July 1, 1862, provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States
  15. 29. a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,ooo Native Americans
  16. 30. he was one of the founding fathers of the uninted states
  17. 31. was a small but pivotal for America on Christmas day
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  1. 1. was a former slave that tried to sue for freedom but was rejected because he was told he was property
  2. 2. The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776
  3. 6. It was the first peaceful protest by the sons of liberty
  4. 7. founding father who was the first president
  5. 9. an estate on which crops such as coffee,sugar,and tobacco
  6. 10. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Lincoln
  7. 13. The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803
  8. 15. fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War
  9. 16. aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
  10. 19. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory
  11. 21. In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad
  12. 24. A democratic republic is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy
  13. 25. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
  14. 26. In response to Pontiac's Rebellion, a revolt of Native Americans led by Pontiac, an Ottawa chief