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Final 150 Part 1 Flashcards

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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Acquire new land and spreading Christianity

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Virginia Company

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The joint stock company that established Jamestown

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Jamestown

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The land that the Virginia Company established.

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John Smith

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Governor of Jamestown for its first two years

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Pocahontas

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Woman that married John Rolf and was the daughter of Chief Powhatan

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John Rolfe

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Learned how to grow and sell tobacco and husband to Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Saved Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Showed that the settlers didn’t want to stay on the coast

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Plymouth Colony

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The colony of the pilgrims

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Pilgrims

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Separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom

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Mayflower

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The ship the the pilgrims came to America on

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Mayflower Compact

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What the pilgrims followed

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William Bradford

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Led the pilgrims for over 30 years and is responsible for Thanksgiving

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Squanto and Samoset

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Befriended some Pilgrims and showed them how to grow corn, beans, and squash and showed them how to hunt and fish

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Puritans

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Protestants who wanted reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Colony based on the bible established by The Massachusetts Bay Company

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John Winthrop

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Massachusetts Bay Colony’s governor

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Taken to trial over disagreeing with Puritans and were kicked out of Massachusetts

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Salem Witch Trials

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Series of trials for people accused of witchcraft

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William Penn

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Founded New York

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Quakers

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Tolerant of other people’s views

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Pacifists

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People who refuse to fight in wars or use force

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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First governor of Georgia, which was set up as a buffer colony and a place for English debtors

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First Great Awakening

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A religious revival that swept through the colonies

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Triangular Trade

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A system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and American Colonies

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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Acquire new land and spreading Christianity

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Virginia Company

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The joint stock company that established Jamestown

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Jamestown

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The land that the Virginia Company established.

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John Smith

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Governor of Jamestown for its first two years

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Pocahontas

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Woman that married John Rolf and was the daughter of Chief Powhatan

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John Rolfe

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Learned how to grow and sell tobacco and husband to Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Saved Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Showed that the settlers didn’t want to stay on the coast

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Plymouth Colony

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The colony of the pilgrims

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Pilgrims

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Separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom

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Mayflower

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The ship the the pilgrims came to America on

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Mayflower Compact

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What the pilgrims followed

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William Bradford

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Led the pilgrims for over 30 years and is responsible for Thanksgiving

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Squanto and Samoset

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Befriended some Pilgrims and showed them how to grow corn, beans, and squash and showed them how to hunt and fish

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Puritans

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Protestants who wanted reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Colony based on the bible established by The Massachusetts Bay Company

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John Winthrop

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Massachusetts Bay Colony’s governor

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Taken to trial over disagreeing with Puritans and were kicked out of Massachusetts

44
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Salem Witch Trials

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Series of trials for people accused of witchcraft

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William Penn

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Founded New York

46
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Quakers

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Tolerant of other people’s views

47
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Pacifists

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People who refuse to fight in wars or use force

48
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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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First governor of Georgia, which was set up as a buffer colony and a place for English debtors

49
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First Great Awakening

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A religious revival that swept through the colonies

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Triangular Trade

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A system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and American Colonies

51
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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon

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Written by Ben Franklin

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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John Peter Zenger accused the governor of New York of corruption in the New York Weekly Journal

53
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Cause of French and Indian War

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Ohio River Valley

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Proclamation of 1763

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Halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains

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The Sugar Act

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Lowered the tax on molasses to try and convince people to stop smuggling

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The Stamp Act

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Placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

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The Boston Massacre

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A fight breaks out between townspeople and British soldiers

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The Boston Tea Party

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A group of colonists board an East Indian Trading Company ship and they destroy the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Harsh laws intended to punish Massachusetts citizens as a reaction to the Boston Tea Party

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Patrick Henry

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“I am not a Virginian, but an American”

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Founded The Sons Of Liberty, which was a secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists mad fight taxation by the British

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John Hancock

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Owned The Liberty

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Showed that the colonies should be a refuge from tyrants and persecution

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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July 4, 1776, Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson, and it explained why the colonies chose to form a new nation

65
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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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Taxation without representation

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Loyalists

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Didn’t think these taxes were enough of a reason to fight

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Patriots

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Determined to fight until Independence was won

68
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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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The Minutemen fired the “shot heard around the world”

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Battle of Saratoga

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Turning point of the American Revolutionary War

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Winter at Valley Forge

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A time of terrible suffering without decent food, clothing, or shelter for Washington and his troops

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Battle of Yorktown

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Last major battle of the American Revolution

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Benedict Arnold

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The hero of the battle of Saratoga

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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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Believed that the future of America had a great influence on he future of mankind

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Friedrich von Steuben

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Drilled the troops at Valley Forge

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Francis Marion

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Known as the Swamp Fox

77
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guerrilla warfare

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A hit and run war technique

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Ended the American Revolution

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Created one territory out of the lands North of the Ohio River Valley and East of the Mississippi River

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Articles of Confederation

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America’s first constitution

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight the governments taxes on poor farmers

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The Great Compromise

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Established the model for Congress used to this day

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The 3/5 Compromise

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Allowed Southern states to count slaves as 3/5 of one free person for representation

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison, 1787, and supreme law of the land

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Bill of Rights

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1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution

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1st Amendment

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Guarantees freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition the government

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2nd Amendment

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The right to bare arms

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4th Amendment

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Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause

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5th Amendment

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Natural rights can not be deprived without due process of law

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6th Amendment

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You have the right to a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury

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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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Legislative: law making branch- congress (Senate and House of Representatives)
Executive: carries out the laws- President- Chief Executive
Judicial: interprets laws and declares laws or Presidential Acts Unconstitutional- Supreme Court and Federal Courts

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Whiskey Rebellion

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A civil uprising against the taxing power of the federal government

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Alexander Hamilton

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Proposed a plan that would have the federal government take care of the state debts from the war

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Alien- allowed President to deport aliens

Sedition- a crime to speak or write false criticisms to try and weaken the government

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John Sevier

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First governor of Tennessee

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Natchez Trace

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Became an important route for trade between Mississippi and Nashville

97
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Marbury v Madison

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Marbury didn’t get his job because his Supreme Court decided that it would be unconstitutional for a new president to be forced to accept propositions not finalized.

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Judicial review

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The court can nullify actions of other branches

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McCulloch v Maryland

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Supreme Court case over state’s rights

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