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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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To acquire new land and to spread Christianity

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Virginia Company

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The joint stock company that established James town

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Jamestown

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A town established by the Virginia company to search for gold

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John Smith

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The leader of Jamestown who is the reason why people their survived

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Pocahontas

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The chief of Powhatan’s daughter who married a colonist and moved to England

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John Rolfe

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The colonist who married Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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A cash crop that Jamestown grew and sold in England

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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A colonist named Nathaniel Bacon attacked Indian tribes one almost over took Jamestown which showed the government that they needed to listen to the people’s demands

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Plymouth Colony

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The colony where pilgrims landed

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Pilgrims

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People who went to America to freely practice their religion

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Mayflower

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The boat that the pilgrims traveled on

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Mayflower Compact

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The laws that were agreed to on the Mayflower

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William Bradford

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The governor of the Plymouth colony

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Squanto and Samoset

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2 Indian tribes that showed the Pilgrims how to plant and grow food on bad land. They had the first Thanksgiving together

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Puritans

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People who strongly believed in religion

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John Winthrop

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Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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People who defied the puritans and had their own teachings.

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Salem Witch Trials

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An occurrence in which many people were killed and jailed for apparently being a witch

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William Penn

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The founder of Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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People who very tolerant of other religions and were passive

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Pacifists

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People who didn’t believe in war or physical conflict

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Founder of Georgia which was a buffer colony between Britain and the Spanish and it was where dept collectors went

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First Great Awakening

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A religious movement that swept through Europe and The colonies

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Triangular Trade

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A trade between the colonies Europe and Africa

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

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Propaganda to get colonist to fight for independence

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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A man who got tried for writing bad things and punishing it on The New York Governor

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Fight for control of Indian trading and land

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Proclamation of 1763

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It forbade people from settling west of the Appalachian mountains

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The Sugar Act

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Taxed all sugar imports

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The Stamp Act

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Taxed all paper products

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The Boston Massacre

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When a snowball fight turned into a gun fight between colonists and British Soldiers

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The Boston Tea Party

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An event in which colonists dressed as Indians dropped millions of dollars of tea into the river

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Laws passed after the Boston tea party

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Patrick Henry

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A orator(public speaker) during the American Revolution

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Samuel founded the sons of liberty and the sons of Liberty protested many of the British taxi that were imposed

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John Hancock

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He fought for an American Revolution and is known for his large and stylish hand signature

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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A book/pamphlet that tried to get people to fight the British

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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1776, Pennsylvania State House, Thomas Jefferson, it declared war against Briton

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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High taxes without representation

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Loyalists

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People who wanted to stay with England

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Patriots

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People who wanted to leave England

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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The first battles of the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Saratoga

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The turning point of the war

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Winter at Valley Forge

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Where Washington and his army stayed in the winter

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Battle of Yorktown

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Where the British were defeated

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Benedict Arnold

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A general who defected to the British

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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

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Marquis de La Fayette

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A French military officer who fought for the us in the us 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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He was known as the swamp fox

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guerrilla warfare

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Untraditional warfare in which an army group charges from different sides and then retreats

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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A treaty to end the war

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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A governing ordinance passed for people northwest of the Mississippi River

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Articles of Confederation

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The first government formed for the US

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Shays’ Rebellion

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A rebellion which the federal government could not stop which proved the articles of confederation to be wrong

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The Great Compromise

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A compromise that made a superset house and senate

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The 3/5 Compromise

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It allowed states to count each salve as 3/5 of a person for the population total

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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Thomas Jefferson, 1787, and it established a better and stronger federal government while still keeping states powerful

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Bill of Rights

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The first ten amendments added to the constitution

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1st Amendment

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An amendment that grants free speech,free press, freedom of religion, protest, and petition the government.

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2nd Amendment

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It grants people the right to bear arms

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4th Amendment

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The right against unwarranted searches and seizures

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5th Amendment

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The right to a jury

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6th Amendment

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The right to a speedy and public trial

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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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Legislative to pass laws and represent the people
Executive to enforce the laws
Judicial to enforce justice and protect the constitution

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Whiskey Rebellion

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A protest over a tax opposed by the new government

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Alexander Hamilton

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He was the first treasure

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Controversial laws that targeted aliens and immigrants

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