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- In 1531, he led an expedition into South America and began the conquest of the Inca Empire.
- He founded Georgia Colony in 1733 as a utopia, where rum and slavery were banned, and there was religious freedom
- After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, he was commissioned to raid Spanish towns and treasure in the New World, leading to his circumnavigation of the world in 1577.
- Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston
- Who does President Lincoln promote to General in Chief of all Union armies? How does this General plan to do to defeat the Confederacy?
- Unalienable rights, purpose of government (John Locke); social contract theory (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
- Turning point of the war; Patriot victory created support from France, Spain, Holland
- Left some of their navy back in Europe to protect England; had many parts of their navy scattered throughout their empire
- Washington, Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Comte de Rochambeau
- angry that the British had interrupted Dutch trade with American merchants in the West Indies
- Continued to boycott British goods and created colonial militias
- How many Americans died during the Civil War? If the same percentage died with today's population, how many Americans would have died?
- Name three Union victories help to seal a second term for President Abraham Lincoln?
- Which President was in power when the Freedmen's Bureau was disbanded?
- 1. set U.S.- Canada border- U.S. reached Mississippi river2. american fisherman allowed to fish in canadian waters3. british to leave frontier forts (broken)4. U.S. to return property to loyalists (broken)
- The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified following which war?
- large army and navy, well trained, plently of money and supplies, aided by loyalists
- 1. the british decided to take the war to the southern states to rally support among the many loyalists living there2. the population was smaller in the south so the british thought they would have an easier time invading
- 1. america gained independence from britian2. america's population continued to grow rapidly3. americans pushed further west onto native american lands4. increased equality between men and women due to the women carrying the load while their husbands were at war5. people left the church of england behind
- Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, which factor delayed the South's economic development?