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Civil war, cause and result

Lincoln, election, new repub party, abolitionists, material adv of N, spiritual adv of S, preserve the union, abolish slavery, emancipation proclamation

North and South

abolitionists, the Missouri compromise, cotton gin, Fugitive Slave Act, bounty hunters, Underground railroad, John Brown-bleeding Kansas, new Republican party

the number of states, main regions and most prominent states there

50, ...

westward movement/growth

Louisiana purchase (Naploeon 15m), need $ for war with UK, Lewis & Clark expeditions, Oregon trail > west -wagon trains

Indians are moved from their lands - forced migration

Northwest ordinance - the land of the indians will stay theirs, > Indian Removal act, > Trail of tears, Cherokee tribe

The Bill of rights

first 10 amendments in the constitution, human rights

peculiarities of different states (SNEW)

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the end and the outcome of the american revolution

1781 - British army surrender to Washington, 1783 - TReaty of Paris, official recognition by the UK

[country] helped americans during the war of independence

France, by the proxy of B. Franklin, the American ambassador in Paris at the time, 1778 French King signed an alliance with Americans

main challenges of the war of independence

no military training or discipline of the troops, though commanded by G. Washington,

Declaration of Independence

07/04, 1776, Continetal Congress issued, drawn up by Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer from Virginia, John Hanckock-first to sing, famous signature phrase

First fire shots of the American REvolution

1775, Lexington village, eight people dead, sb fired the first shot - British troops replied

Militiamen / minutemen

part-time soldiers, colonists ready to take guns to protect their colonial interest, ready in a minute

The Boston Massacre

1770, first armed conflict with the British army, three poeple dead, resonated across the country due to the popular engraving thereof

The Boston Tea Party

1773, colonists disguised as Amerinidians throw tea from the British ships into the ocean

"No taxation without representation"

colonists to the Crown, no seats in parliament - no taxes

Who said and why: "let sleeping dogs lie"

British Pm Robert Walpole about the colonists, wasn't wise to distrub them

Roots of the War of Independence

Stamp acts, Trade laws, new taxes, housing British troops

Stamp acts as one of the roots of American Revolution

used "stamps" as a way to collect taxes from colonists by the British crown

American mountain ranges

The appalachians, The Rocky mts, Sierra Nevada

Wilderness road, Daniel Boone

1775, explorer D. Boone found the way foe the settlers to the west through the Appalachians

"Frontier" way of life for settlers

Independent American settlers: long distance between villages/farms, people depended solely on themselves, tough character

moving westward in the colonies

moved in search of more fertile soil

Tidewater period in the colonies

majority lived close to the coast, travelled by rivers and close to them

Biggest Lakes

Superior, Michigan, Ontario, Huron, Erie,

Longest rivers

Missouri, Missisipi, Rio Grande, Yukon, Arkansas, Colorado

Geography of the North American continent

is washed by the Atlantic(E) and the Pacific(W) o, borders Canada, Mexico,

Thanksgiving origin and meaning

Nov 1621, first year survived, amerindians helped. showed where to fish and how to farm on the American soil

State names origins

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the lost colony of Roanoke

1585, first settlers, after 3 years came back from London with supplies - disappeared,no trace, no clue

the Virginia Company

commissioned by King James I - it had the power to appoint a Council of leaders in the colony, a Governor, other officials

Slavery beginnings in America

1619, a Dutch ship brought first 20 black slaves from Africa

Pilgrim fathers

settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England ( arrived on Mayflower ship in 1620)

First original colonies? How many? Can you give names?

13: New Hampshire, Mass, Rh Isl and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, NY, NJ, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N & S Carolina, Georgia

First British colony in the New World. City, state, date.

Jamestown, Virginia, 1607

Why people moved to America in the beginning?

in search of riches, from religious or political persecution,

The story of Pocahontas.

A daughter of an Indian tribe's chief who saved a settler from being killed. First Amerinidian to visit London in 1616.

First European explorers before Columbus

Vikings from Iceland, Lucky Leif

Discovery of America, who/when, naming of the continent

discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492; named after Amerigo Vespucci, an italian merchant, who first understood that it was the new continent

Potlatches. An Indian giver

a ceremony of giving gifts; the one who wants sth back

Native American tribes. Their names & typical lifestyle

Apache, Pueblo, Iroquois, Dakota (Sioux); fierce warriors, farmers, fishermen, wandering tribes