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- March 5, 1770, British soldiers killed five colonists:
- The British won this war against France in 1763 and controlled much of North America after, heavily taxing them:
- - the movement quickly spread in the US , Canada , & UK- the froup started up the catholic worker newspaper-well over 100 communitites exist today
- In this year, enslaved people were first brought to the colonies:
- This is the year and name of the first slave rebellion in the colonies:
- These other colonies of the British empire in North America were interdependent with the colonies, and they traded with each other:
- Exports from this tiny Carribbean island valued more than the total exports from all the colonies combined:
- -settle nomadic Indians -converted faith-set up schools, churches, marketplaces-taught men trade-taught women European domestic skills
- What was the conflict between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan?
- How did the New Deal try to help recovery from the Great Depression?
- Why did immigrants begin to move back to their countries of origin during this time period?
- Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy was in regards to what geographic region?
- What was the major impact of the Progressive Era political reforms of initiative, referendum and recall?
- The DOI suggest the people are the source of power, what type of government supports that idea?
- What are our natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence (DOI)?
- What allowed steel production to become more efficient?
- What philosopher inspired Thomas Jefferson's unalienable rights written in the DOI?
- Head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.
- -helped persuade officials to let women work as nurses-became the superintendent for the Union army-recruited large numbers of women to serve
- -Famous for her work in helping wounded soldiers in Richmond, Virginia. -captain of the confederate army and was the only female officer in the confeterm-4derate forces