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Political heavyweight to help revise and repair the Articles of Confederation.
James Madison
Search for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge
Writs of assistance
Political heavyweight to help revise and repair the Articles of Confederation.
Alexander Hamilton
Americans cut off British charge.
Battle of Saratoga
Revise of Articles of Confederation.
Constitutional Convention
Urged to correct wrongs.
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Raising colonial military force.
Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Arms
Last gesture of peace sent to Britian before total war.
Olive Branch Petition
Ended American Revolution
Treaty of Paris
Rose up during the summer of 1786 and demanded restitution and tax relief. (Shays Rebellion)
Daniel Shays
Colonists who fought for independence from the British.
Patriots
Colonists who sided with the British. Also known as Tories.
Loyalists
Colonists who sided with the British. Also known as Loyalists.
Tories
French expand borders
Quebec Act
Lowered the price of tax
Tea Act
Maintained the right of the Crown to tax the colonies.
Declatory Act
British soldiers stationed in colonist homes
Quartering Act
Ended the French and Indian War
Peace of Paris
Intimidated tax collectors by attacking their homes, burning them in effigy, and even tarring and feathering them.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Sermon given by “New Light” preacher Jonathan Edwards in 1741. Churchgoers were told that God was angry with the sinners of the Earth.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
This “New Light” preacher, started the Great Awakening.
John Edwards
In 1692, Massachusetts was the site of witchcraft hysteria.
Salem
Parliament overthrew King James II and replaced him with his daughter and Dutch husband.
Glorious Revolution
Large numbers of Puritan families ventured across the Atlantic, seeking religious freedom and a fresh start
The Great Migration
Appointed by Parliament as the successors of King James II.
William and Mary
Method established by the Spanish in order to enslave Native American populations.
Encomienda
First English settlement established by Sir Walter Raleigh in North America.
Roanoke
Spain and Portugal decided how Christopher Columbus’s discoveries of the New World would be divided.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Movement against the Catholic Church
Protestant Reformation
The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a Puritan minister. “city upon a hill”
John Winthrop
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.
Anne Hutchinson
Introduced tobacco to Virginia farmers.
John Rolfe