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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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New land and spread Christianity

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Virginia Company

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Jointstock company that made Jamestown

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Jamestown

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Virginia company established this. Easy to defend

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John Smith

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Husband of Pocahontas. Built ties with powhatans. Forced settlers to work

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Pocahontas

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Saved John smiths life. Brought some peace between British/native Americans after marriage to Rolfe

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John Rolfe

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Married Pocahontas. Learned how to grow tobacco and sold it

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Tobacco

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Saved Jamestown. Jamestown depended on this

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Showed gov’t that it could not ignore demands of its people. Attacked Native American villages

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Plymouth Colony

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Colonists that went off track and landed at a place they called Plymouth

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Pilgrims

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Separatists that came to America. Someone who undertakes a religious journey

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Mayflower

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Supply ship that carried the pilgrims to America

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Mayflower compact

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Organized orderly gov’t signed on the mayflower. Key step for America

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William Bradford

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Most famous for writing Of Plymouth Plantation

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Squanto and Samoset

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Showed pilgrams how to grow corn beans and squash

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Puritans

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Little toleration for for other religions

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Formed in 1629 to escape religious persecution

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John Winthrop

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Governor of mass bay colony

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Founded Rhode Island

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Salem Witch Trials

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Series of hearings and persecutions of people accused of witch craft

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William Penn

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Founded Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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Protestant ground that had been persecuted in England. Founded Pennsylvania aka pacifists

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Pacifists

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No fighting

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Georgia

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First Great Awakening

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Religious revival that swept thru colonies. All people r equal

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Triangular Trade

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Slaves crops and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, Caribbean, and the colonies

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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon

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PRA-Franklin wrote this. Collection of sayings such as “a penny saved is a penny earned”
ABU-1 General gov’t. Designed to help colonies defend themselves from the French
Join or die-First political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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Criticized the gov’t and was thrown in jail

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Wanted to control the fur trade

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Proclamation of 1763

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Stopped western expansion. Control fur trade

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The Sugar Act

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Lowered tax on molasses to try and convince people to stop smuggling

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The Stamp Act

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Placed tax on almost all printed material

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The Boston Massacre

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Used as propaganda. Tow shed acts repealed. Ga e east India trading company the right to ship test to colonies

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The Boston Tea Party

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Sons of Liberty boarded a ship and dumped it all out in the river

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Intended to punish Massachusetts as a reaction to Boston tea party

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Patrick Henry

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“I am not a Virginian, but an American

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Secret society formed to protect the colonists rights and fight taxation

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John Hancock

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First person to sign the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Encouraged people to fight for independence

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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1776,Philadelphia Thomas Jefferson and to explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation

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Cause of American Revolution war

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People in the colonies were still divided and GB wouldn’t let the colonies go without a fight

41
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Loyalists

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GB side

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Patriots

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Colonists

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Showed dispute between colonists and GB had worsened

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Battle of Saratoga

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Turning point

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Winter at Valley Forge

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Terrible suffering

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Battle of Yorktown

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End of war. Colonists and French surrounded Cornwallis and troops

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Benedict Arnold

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Hero of Saratoga. Didn’t get promotion he thought he deserved so switched to British

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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

49
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Marquis de La Fayette

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Believed future of America had a great influence on future of mankind

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Friedrich von Steuben

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Taught continental army the essentials of military drill and discipline

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Francis Marion

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Swamp fox. Father of guerilla warfare

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guerrilla warfare

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Hit and run war technique

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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GB recognized US as an independent nation

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Created one territory out of the lands north of Ohio river and east of Mississippi River

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Articles of Confederation

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Nov 1777. Americas first constitution

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight gov’ts taxes on poor farmers

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The Great Compromise

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Franklin created a committee which established the model for congress used to this day

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The 3/5 Compromise

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Allowed southern states to count slaves as 3/5 of 1 person for representation

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison 1787. Crestes the 3 branches of gov’t, checks and balances, and divides power between state and federal govt

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Bill of Rights

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First 10 amendments of the constitution. Limits power of the gov’t and protects right of people

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1

st Amendment

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Freedom of speech religion press assembly petition

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2

nd Amendment

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Right to bear arms and for states to be able to maintain a militia

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4

th Amendment

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Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause

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5

th Amendment

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Natural rights can’t be deprived without DUE PROCESS OF LAW

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th Amendment

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Right to a speedy public trial you an impartial jury.

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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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L-makes laws

E-carries out laws

J-interprets laws and declares laws or presidential acts r unconstitutional

67
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Whiskey Rebellion

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Civil uprising against the taxing power of federal gov’t

68
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Alexander Hamilton

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First secretary of treasury

69
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Alien and Sedition Acts

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A-allowed president to deport aliens that he thought were dangerous

S-crime to criticize the gov’t

70
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John Sevier

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First governor of TN

71
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Natchez Trace

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Allowed farmers to get back to TN after selling their crops down the Mississippi River

72
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Marbury v Madison

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Established judicial review. First time surprise court decided something unconstitutional. Madison won

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Judicial review

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Court can nullify actions of other branches

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McCulloch v Maryland

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Over states. Marshall ruled that Maryland had no right to tax the bank bc the court didn’t want states to have that much power

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