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Political heavyweight to help revise and repair the Articles of Confederation.

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James Madison

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Search for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge

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Writs of assistance

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Political heavyweight to help revise and repair the Articles of Confederation.

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Alexander Hamilton

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Americans cut off British charge.

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Battle of Saratoga

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Revise of Articles of Confederation.

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Constitutional Convention

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Urged to correct wrongs.

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Declaration of Rights and Grievances

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Raising colonial military force.

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Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Arms

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Last gesture of peace sent to Britian before total war.

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Olive Branch Petition

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Ended American Revolution

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Treaty of Paris

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Rose up during the summer of 1786 and demanded restitution and tax relief. (Shays Rebellion)

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Daniel Shays

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Colonists who fought for independence from the British.

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Patriots

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Colonists who sided with the British. Also known as Tories.

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Loyalists

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Colonists who sided with the British. Also known as Loyalists.

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Tories

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French expand borders

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Quebec Act

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Lowered the price of tax

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Tea Act

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Maintained the right of the Crown to tax the colonies.

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Declatory Act

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British soldiers stationed in colonist homes

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Quartering Act

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Ended the French and Indian War

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Peace of Paris

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Intimidated tax collectors by attacking their homes, burning them in effigy, and even tarring and feathering them.

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Sons and Daughters of Liberty

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Sermon given by “New Light” preacher Jonathan Edwards in 1741. Churchgoers were told that God was angry with the sinners of the Earth.

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“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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This “New Light” preacher, started the Great Awakening.

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John Edwards

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In 1692, Massachusetts was the site of witchcraft hysteria.

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Salem

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Parliament overthrew King James II and replaced him with his daughter and Dutch husband.

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Glorious Revolution

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Large numbers of Puritan families ventured across the Atlantic, seeking religious freedom and a fresh start

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The Great Migration

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Appointed by Parliament as the successors of King James II.

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William and Mary

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Method established by the Spanish in order to enslave Native American populations.

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Encomienda

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First English settlement established by Sir Walter Raleigh in North America.

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Roanoke

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Spain and Portugal decided how Christopher Columbus’s discoveries of the New World would be divided.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Movement against the Catholic Church

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Protestant Reformation

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The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a Puritan minister. “city upon a hill”

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John Winthrop

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Believed that God’s chosen people were either predestined for Heaven or not, so they did not have to obey God’s or man’s law.

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Anne Hutchinson

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Introduced tobacco to Virginia farmers.

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John Rolfe

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Governor of the Virginia colony. Enraged the poor farmers in the backwoods by remaining friendly with the Native Americans.

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Sir William Berkeley

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Collective security from attack by surrounding Native American tribes.

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New England Confederation

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Puritans who felt that they needed to abandon the Church of England and set up a new church.

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Separatists

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Protested against the similarities between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.

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Also known as the Anglican Church. Broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created this Church.

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Church of England

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These Puritans believed they must remain within the Church of England to reform it.

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Nonseperatists

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“First constitution” in colonial America.

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Fundamental Orders

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Colonies existed to provide raw materials for the Mother coutry.

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Mercantilism

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Native Americans rebelled against Spanish government.

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Pueblo Revolt

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Gave non converted Puritans partial membership in the Church.

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Halfway Covenant

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“Inner light” (non-Puritans)

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Set aside a parcel of land for public education.

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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Can’t settle past the Appalachian Mountians

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Proclamation Act of 1763

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First venture to settle in Jamestown

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Virginia Compromise

46
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Taxed sugar. Lost money through Triangular Trade

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Said we had no right to live on lands taken from the Native Americans. Discovered Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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Established Calvinism. Said that we were predestined to heaven or hell

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John Calvin

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Religious freedom in Maryland

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Act of Toleration

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Aimed to bring colonies under stricter control.

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Dominion of New England

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Secular body in leadership

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Mayflower Compact

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Citizens set fire to Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Lure to Pennsylvania for promises of freedom.

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Holy Experiment

54
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Called for confederation if countries

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The Albany Plan of Union

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Event in response to the Tea Act

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Boston Tea Party

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Angered about enforcement of the Quartering Act

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Boston Massacre

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Indians launched attack on colonial settlements from Michigan to Virginia.

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Pontiac’s Rebellion

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9 of 13 colonies attended. Came to agreement that only colonial legislatures had authority to tax the colonists.

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Stamp Act Congress

59
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Challenged the rules of the kings; theory of natural rights

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John Locke

60
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Helped construct the Albany Plan of Union

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Benjamin Franklin

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Social structure’s distance gap of the rich and poir

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Stratification

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For statehood, at least 60,000 people

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

63
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Necessary template for government

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Articles of Confederation

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Wanting freedom from Britain

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Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Paine believed that we should gain freedom from Britain. It advocates natural rights.

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Common Sense

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Demanded tax relief

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Shay’s Rebellion

67
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Met to discuss the reactions of the Intolerable Acts.

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First Continental Congress

68
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Left the colonists alone. Britain didn’t pay attention to them

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Salutary Neglect

69
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Wrote Common Sense. Wanted our independence from Britain.

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Thomas Paine

70
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Letting the French expand on our Ohio River Valley; French expanding boarders

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Intolerable Acts

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Leader of Bacon’s Rebellion

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Nathanial Bacon

72
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His son established Maryland; wanted a safe haven

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Lord Baltimore

73
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Movement against Catholics

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Protestant Reformation

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Closed the Boston harbor until the tea was paid off

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Coercive Acts

75
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No distinction with internal and external tax

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Massachusetts Circular Letter

76
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Stamp on all papers show a tax had been paid

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Religious fever of the 1630s

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Great Awakening

78
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New England colonies provided fish lumber and manufactured goods; in return for molasses and African slaves

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Triangular Trade

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Indentured servant for 50 acres of land

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Headright System

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Revivalist ministers who emphasized emotive spirituality and encouraged missionary work among the natives.

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New Light Preachers

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