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AHSGE Social Studies Review I
Study Guide for AL Grad Exam
49
History
10th Grade
10/02/2008

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St. Augustine, FL
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first permanent settlement (by Spanish)
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Jamestown
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first permanent English settlement in America
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Lexington & Concord
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first shots of American Revolution fired here
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Saratoga
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turning point of the American Revolution
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Valley Forge
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site where Wasington and his men spent a cold winter
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Yorktown
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surrender to end the American Revolution (Cornwallis to Washington)
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Oklahoma
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Indians were moved from the southeast to Oklahoma
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Sutter's Mill, California
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gold was discovered here
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Utah
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the Mormons moved west and settled here
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Fort McHenry
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War of 1812/where Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner
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Horseshoe Bend
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Andrew Jackson defeated the Indians here in Alabama
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South Carolina
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first shots of Civil War were fired here
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Montgomery
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first capital of the Confederacy
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Richmond
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where the capital was moved to during the Civil War
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Winston County Alabama
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wanted to secede from Alabama/opposed to war
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Gettysburg
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turning point of the Civil War
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Appomattox Courthouse
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where Lee surrendered to Grant to end the Civil War
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Seneca Falls
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location of convention promoting women's rights
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Panama Canal
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connected Atlantic and Pacific Ocean-yellow fever here
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Poland
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Germany invaded Poland-started WWII
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Pearl Harbor
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Japanese bombed here/U.S. declared war on Japan
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Normandy
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Allied Invasion/known as D-Day
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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atomic bombs were dropped here by U.S. / ended WWII
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Promontory Point Utah
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where first Transcontinental Railroad was completed
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Trail of Tears
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route of the Indians forced to move from southeast to OK
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Tuskegee Institute
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agricultural & industrial school started by Booker T. Washington
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First 10 Amendments
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Bill of Rights
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13th Amendment
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Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
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former slaves now citizens
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15th Amendment
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gave all men the right to vote
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19th Amendment
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women were given the right to vote
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Martin Luther
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had 95 Theses/complaints against the Catholic Church started the Reformation
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Hernando Cortes
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Spanish conquistador/led the defeat of the Aztec in Mexico
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Francisco Pizarro
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led the Spanish defeat of the Incas in South America
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John Smith
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leader of Jamestown Colony
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George Washington
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leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutioin
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Thomas Jefferson
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wrote most of Declaration of Independence
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Harriet Tubman
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led slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad
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Eli Whitney
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invented the cotton gin & interchangable parts
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Henry Clay
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American System/for better roads, Bank of U.S. tariff
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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organized the Seneca Falls Convention
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John Marshall
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early Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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Andrew Jackson
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started the Spoils System/giving gov. jobs to friends
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John Brown
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opposed to slavery/led a raid on Harper's Ferry to get weapons to arm the slaves/executed for treason
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Francis Scott Key
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wrote the Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
commander of the Confederate forces during the Civil War
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Ulysses Grant
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President during the Reconstruction Period
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