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History
5th Grade
12/20/2010

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 Civil War

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1860 -1865 New yorkers fought alongside of the northerners to save the union
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Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and moved to Auburn New York where she helped slaves escape from the South to Canada on the Underground" railroad.
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Abolitionists

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Northers became abolitionists because they were fighting against slavery.
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Industrial Revolution

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It began in England in the late 1700's people stopped producing goods by hand at home and started to use machines driven by steam power in factories
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Primary Sources[image]
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Diaries, interviews, and photographs
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Secondary sources[image]
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textbooks and articles..... do not come from someone who lived it.
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Fact/Opinion[image]
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A fact is a statement about something that is said to have happened. It is a truth. You have blue eyes.

An opinion is something that a person's thinks or a belief. You are pretty.
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Algonquians[image]
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they lived in wigwams, they are peaceful, they were hunters and gatherers
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Iroquois(Haudenosaunee)[image]
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Lived in longhouses. They were fierce warriors
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Wigwam[image]
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A small domeshaped house that could fit only one family made of branches and bark
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Longhouse[image]
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A long house that can fit a lot o families made of saplings and branches covered with bark and grass
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Iroquois Confederacy[image]
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All five Indian tribes united to form a union
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New Netherland

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The Dutch established a colony which they called New Netherlands. New Netherlands was known for his fur trade.
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Sons of Liberty
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The SOns of liberty organized parades and attacked British tax collectors
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Boston Tea Party
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Colonists in Boston threw chests of tea into the harbor in protest
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American Revolution
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By 1775 the colonists were in open rebellion against the British
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Loyalists
Definition
oppossed the revolution and took the side of the British
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Patriot
Definition
favored the revolution and were against the British
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Declaration of Independence
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Each of the colonies now became an independent state
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Articles of Confederation
Definition
The 13 new states also agreed to form a new national government under the Articles of Confederation
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Constitution
Definition
The new constitution proposed a much stronger government with a President, Congress, and Supreme Court.
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Bill of Rights
Definition
First ten amendments of the constitution
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War of 1812
Definition
Americans went to war again with the British
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