Final 150 Flashcards
Why did Europeans come to America to colonize
They were searching for gold and silver
Virginia Company
A joint stock company that gained a chapter to establish Jamestown
Jamestown
James town
John Smith
Captain john smith governor to Jamestown for its 1st year
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
John Rolfe
John Rolfe married the daughter of chief Powhatan , Pocahontas’s
Tobacco
Tobacco saved Jamestown
Bacon’s Rebellion
Had shown that the settlers were not content with being restricted to the coast
Plymouth Colony
A settlement a New Plymouth
Pilgrims
1st settler in American
Mayflower
The ship that bought the pilgrim
Mayflower Compact
First government documents
William Bradford
Govener of the Plymouth
Squanto and Samoset
Squanto had 1st think giving
Puritans
Wanted to puffery the crunches
Massachusetts Bay Colony
A colony based on investment
John Winthrop
Founder of Massachusetts
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
They both work together on government
Salem Witch Trials
A time when people being witch and killed a lot of music
William Penn
He has people believed the government
Quakers
Quaker that found Pennsylvania
Pacifists
Study about religion
James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony
He was about to colony
First Great Awakening
The time of invention
Triangular Trade
Traded run to Africa slavery to American
Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
They were persistent
John Peter Zenger Trial
Unfare Texas
Cause of French and Indian War
Warblers to sath
Proclamation of 1763
End of frach and ianidn war
The Sugar Act
A tax sugar to get money for war
The Stamp Act
The stamp act was passed by the British parliament
The Boston Massacre
It has Massachusetts
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston had tea party
The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Acts placed on Conley
Patrick Henry
Served as a delegation to first
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
People who took in our importan
John Hancock
Had the largest signature
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Trueurge people who got in to fight
Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
July 1776, Washington DC , Thomas Jefferson
Cause of American Revolutionary War
The British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share or war
Loyalists
The people want to be loyal
Patriots
People who indpeadend
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Final battle of American
Battle of Saratoga
Turning of the revaluation
Winter at Valley Forge
People start dying of starvation
Battle of Yorktown
Last manger battle
Benedict Arnold
Led battle of soara sofa
Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
Gorge Washington
Marquis de La Fayette
He was known as layfayette was a French
Friedrich von Steuben
former captain in the Prussian army, presented himself to George Washington
Francis Marion
Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
guerrilla warfare
guerrillas were everywhere and South Vietnamese and allied soldiers had to maintain constant
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
Shays’ Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787
The Great Compromise
Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure
The 3/5 Compromise
compromise they reached would arbitrarily count each slave as 3/5 of a person
The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose
James Madison,1787
Bill of Rights
English constitutional settlement of 1689, confirming the deposition of James II and the accession of William
1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
2
nd Amendment
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state
4th Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons
5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital
6th Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial
Three Branches of Government and their purpose
To ensure a separation of powers, the U.S. Federal Government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791
