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French And Indian War
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Proclamation of 1763
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Quartering Acts of 1765
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Boston Massacare
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The Tea Acts of 1773
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Boston Tea party
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Battle of Lexington
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American Revolution
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Articles of Confederation: Created/Adopted
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Articles of Confederation: Ratified/Approved
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Treaty of Paris
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Ratification of the Constitution
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George Washington
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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Whiskey Rebellion
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Adoption of the Bill of Rights
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XYZ Affair
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John Adams
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Alien and Sedition Acts
Four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798. (Specific end date uncertain) -
Thomas Jefferson
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Louisiana Purchase: Treaty signed
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James Madison
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James Monroe
5th President: Democratic-Republican -
Florida Treaty
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Missouri Compromise
Slave states though that if there were more free states in the United States slavery would be outlawed. So, the Missouri compromise was made to balance out the number of slave holding and free states. -
John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson presidency
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Indian Removal Act of 1830
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American Anti-Slavery Society
This society helped spread the message of banning slavery. -
Burning abolitionist literature in Charleston, South Carolina
A mob of people burned all the abolitionist literature in which were some of the pamphlets that the American Anti-Slavery Society passed out -
Gag Rule
This rule said that all the petition sent n by the abolitionists would not be read and acted upom -
Pennsylvania Hall burns
A mob of slavery supporters burned down the Pennsylvania Hall in which a lot of abolitionists were -
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James K. Polk presidency
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Texas annexation
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Mexican American War
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Oregon Treaty June 15, 1846
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Mexican Cession
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Compromise of 1850
When the United States got the new land from Mexico, people debated over wether they should allow slavery in this new land, so the Compromise of 1850 was made. It stated that California is a free state; the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah were allowed to vote over wether they should allow slavery or not; Washington D.C. would be a free state -
Fugitive Splave Act
This act stated that the North cannot help slaves escape from South and must return the slaves to their masters in South -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
After reading this, many people turned into abolitionists. This book explained the evils of slavery. -
Gadsden Purchase
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Passed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, this bill removed the missouri compromise and added nebraska and kansas as slave holding states -
Bleeding Kansas
people moved to Kansas and led violent and bloody wars over wether slavery should be allowed here not -
Dred Scott decision
dred scott, a slave, sued against his master because his master had taken him to live in a free state and he believed that he should have free. The court said that dred scott could not sue because he was not an American citizen. -
John Brown's Raid
John brown and 22 more men attacked Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The mob held the town's most important people captive but were taken down within 24 hours. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
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Secession
This is the time period in which many of the southern states began to leave the union because they were afraid that slavery was going to be abolished. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee left in this time period. -
Fort Sumter
President Abraham Lincoln aid that he would not start a war with the South unless the South attacked first. The Confedarates attacked Fort Sumter and therefore president Lincoln started the Civil War. -
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Syrian Revolution
