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Instructions
• TAKS Lesson Objective 1– Copy the information from the powerpoint onto
index cards– Term goes on the front of the card (no lines) and
definition goes on the back of the card (lines)– If you do not have cards, you may write everything
on paper
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1215
• The Magna Carta was signed– It limited the power of the king– Protected the rights of nobles
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1607
• Jamestown was founded in North America
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1776
• The Declaration of Independence was signed
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1787
• The Constitutional Convention met
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1803
• The Louisiana Purchase
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1861-1865
• The American Civil War
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1861
• Attack on Ft. Sumter started the Civil War
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1862
• Emancipation Proclamation– Lincoln announced slaves would be free by the
end of the year
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1863
• The Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address
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1865
• Confederates surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse to end the Civil War
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George Washington
• Comander of the Continental Army• Led the Constitutional Convention• First President of the United States
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Thomas Jefferson
• Author of the Declaration of Independence• 3rd President of the U.S.• Ambassador to France
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Thomas Paine
• Wrote Common Sense– Essays regarding the need for the Revolutionary
War
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King George III
• King of England during the American Revolution
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Robert E. Lee
• Commander of the Confederate Army (South) during the Civli War
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Ulysses S. Grant
• Commander of the Union Army (North) during the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
• Elected in 1862, he was the president of the United States during the Civil War
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Nullification Crisis
• Challenged the right of states to void a federal law
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Bill of Rights
• First 10 amendments to the Constitution• Guaranteed individual freedoms
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Stamp Act
• Placed a tax on all printed materials
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Proclamation of 1763
• Stated colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Boston Massacre
• British troops fired on a crowd of colonists• Contributing factor in the Revolutionary War
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Lexington and Concord
• The Shot heard ‘round the world• The first shots of the American Revolution
were fired
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Saratoga
• Turning point of the American Revolution• Convinced the French to help the Americans
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Yorktown
• Final battle of the American Revolution– Cornwallis (British General) surrendered
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Appomattox Courthouse
• Lee surrendered to Grant there to end the Civil War
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MORE FLASH CARDS – World History
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1492
• Columbus “discovered” the New World
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1066
• The Battle of Hastings
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1789
• The French Revolution
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1914-1918
• World War I
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1939-1945
• World War II
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The Treaty of Tordesillas
• Divided the “New World” between Spain and Portugal
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Monroe Doctrine
• Closed the Western Hemisphere to European colonization and kept Europe out of western affairs
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The Neoloithic Revolution
• The shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture
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The Industrial Revolution
• Movement of the 1700s and early 1800s in which machines were used in factories to mass produce items
• It brought a shift from rural to urban living