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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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To settle and have farm land to grow crops

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Virginia Company

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Was a joint stock company in which investors bought shares or part ownership

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Jamestown

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Was a colony that was going out and was saved by tobacco which many used to keep Jamestown

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John Smith

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Was a leading surviver in Jamestown and he forced the settlers to work and had a connection with the Indians

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Pocahontas

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Was an Indian that aided the settlers and helped them get back on their feets

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John Rolfe

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Was married to Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Was the crop that saved Jamestown from going down

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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To rule against Governor William Berkley for making farmers pay tax for crops

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Plymouth Colony

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It was a clone for pilgrims seeking religious freedom

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Pilgrims

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Came to America on the mayflower and Were separatist who came to the colonies for religious freedom

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Mayflower

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Was the ship that brought the pilgrims to America

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Mayflower Compact

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Was a document that pilgrims signed to setup an organized,orderly government

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William Bradford

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Was the governor for the Plymouth colony

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Squanto and Samoset

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They are the ones helped pilgrims make peace with the Wampanoag people who lived in that area also the pilgrims invited the Wampanoag in a feast of thanksgiving

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Puritans

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Were protesters who wanted reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Was an route for puritans to escape prosecution and economic hard times

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John Winthrop

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Was the governor for the Plymouth company and led 900 men,women,and children to the Massachusetts bay

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Anne Hutchison was banished from Massachusetts for talking about how she viewed the religious teachings.Roger Williams was a minister of found Rhode island because he felt that the government should not force people to worship a certain way

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Salem Witch Trials

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Many women were accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts it was illegal to practice witchcraft and nineteen were killed before they were wrongfully convicted

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William Penn

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Was a wealthy English Quaker who saw a chance to put his Quaker ideals into practice

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Quakers

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They were a Protestant group that were prosecuted in England and they were pacifists which meant they refused to fight in wars and refused to use force

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Received a charter from George the 2nd for a colony where debtors and poor people to have a fresh start.

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First Great Awakening

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A new spirit of reform

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Triangular Trade

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It was a leg of a three-part route that shipped crops,slaves,and other goods to the Americas

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

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Was a way of telling people if they didn’t join the union that they would die

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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Because of him he made us have the freedom of speech

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Both wanted to expand their lands it the west which was Called the Ohio territory

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Proclamation of 1763

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Forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

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The Sugar Act

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Was passed to put tariffs on goods that were being shipped

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The Stamp Act

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Was an act of parliament that imposed a direct tax on goods

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The Boston Massacre

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Was propaganda to show others to fight but only 5 were killed

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The Boston Tea Party

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Was a protest by the Sons of Liberty which they dressed up as natives and dumped tea on the water

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Was a way to punish the colonists for throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston harbor

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Patrick Henry

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Became an orator during the movement of independence in Virginia

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams was a Sons of Liberty member which he was in the Boston tea party

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John Hancock

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He was president of congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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He wrote it so others could fight for independence

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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July fourth 1776,Freedom hall,Thomas Jefferson,that America finally had its independence

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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The British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share of the war debt

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Loyalists

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American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War

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Patriots

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Were colonists who rebelled against British control during the American war

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Saratoga

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Was the turning point

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Winter at Valley Forge

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Was the military camp where the American continental war spent the winter during the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Yorktown

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Where Cornwallis was forced to surrender

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Benedict Arnold

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A general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought but defected to the British army

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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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Colonial William Barton

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Marquis de La Fayette

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Was a French aristocratic and a military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War

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Friedrich von Steuben

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A Prussian military officer

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Francis Marion

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Acting with the continental army and South Carolina militia

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guerrilla warfare

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A hit and run tactic that was used in wars

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Ended the American Revolutionary War

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Was an act of the congress of the confederation of the United States

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Articles of Confederation

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An agreement among the 13 original states which acted as the first constitution

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Was an armed up rising and four thousand rebels against perceived economic and civil rights injustices

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The Great Compromise

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Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention

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The 3/5 Compromise

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The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Maddison,1789,creates check and balances so that no branch has more power than the others

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Bill of Rights

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First 10 amendments of the constitution

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1st Amendment

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Freedom of religion,speech,press,petition,assembly

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2nd Amendment

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The right to bear arms

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4th Amendment

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The freedom to prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures

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5th Amendment

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Freedom to witness against themselves in a criminal case

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6th Amendment

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The right to a speedy or public trial

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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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Executive,judicial,legislative
Executive:carries out the laws
Legislative:make laws
Judicial:interprets and applies the law in the name of the state

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Whiskey Rebellion

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Was to revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War

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Alexander Hamilton

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Was influential interpreter and promoter of the us constitution

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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To keep those who weren’t citizens out of the country but this act would not be helpful

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John Sevier

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Fought with the Cherokee

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Natchez Trace

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Was used to help getting near Tennessee easier

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Marbury v Madison

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Was exercise for the judicial

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Judicial review

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US Supreme Court of the constitutional validly of a legislative act

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McCulloch v Maryland

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Was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court

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