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Final 150 Part 1 Flashcards

1
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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Because there was stuff their they wanted

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Virginia Company

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Joint stock company

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Jamestown

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English men and boys arrived in North America to settle their

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John Smith

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Leader of Jamestown settlement

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Pocahontas

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Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown

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John Rolfe

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He brought tobacco to the colony of Virginia

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Tobacco

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After john Rolfe brought it to Virginia many places began buy selling growing and trading it

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Bacon’s Rebellion was the first rebellion in the American colonies.

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Plymouth Colony

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It is most famous for introducing Thanksgiving and, more important, introducing self government into America through the Mayflower Compact

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Pilgrims

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They were people that founded thanksgiving

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Mayflower

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The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the Pilgrims

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Mayflower Compact

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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

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William Bradford

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William Bradford was an English separatist and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower

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Squanto and Samoset

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Squanto, was a member of the Patuxet tribe

Samoset was an Abenaki sagamore and the first American Indian to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony.

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Puritans

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a member of a group of English Protestants

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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an English settlement on the east coast of North America

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John Winthrop

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English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams spoke their minds

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Salem Witch Trials

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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft

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William Penn

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William Penn was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur

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Quakers

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Quakers are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church

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Pacifists

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a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer Colony

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He and a group of charitable investors asked King George for permission to create a utopian experiment

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First Great Awakening

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revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies

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Triangular Trade

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used to refer to the trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves

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

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Join or die cartoon is political

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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The trial of John Peter Zenger, a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists

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Cause of French and Indian War

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The conflict was a part of the Seven Years’ War among the European great powers including Britain and France

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29
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Proclamation of 1763

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prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia

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The Sugar Act

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was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament

31
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The Stamp Act

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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

32
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The Boston Massacre

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it united the colonists against Britain, which would eventually lead to the Revolutionary War

33
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The Boston Tea Party

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The British were furious with the actions of the colonists and needed to impose a punishmen

34
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Designed to punish the colonist

35
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Patrick Henry

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quickly became notable for his inflammatory rhetoric against the Stamp Act of 1765

36
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies and Samuel Adams was the founder

37
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John Hancock

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one of Boston’s leaders during the crisis that led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775

38
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Getting independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

39
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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1776, Thomas Jefferson,

To announce and explain separation from Great Britain

40
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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 from the French and Indian War

41
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Loyalists

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Were called Tories. They opposed the Revolution and many took up arms against the revels

42
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Patriots

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Patriots were members of the 13 British colonies who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution

43
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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Started the American Revolutionary War

44
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Battle of Saratoga

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marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War

45
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Winter at Valley Forge

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a great trial for the American army, and of the 11,000 soldiers stationed here

46
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Battle of Yorktown

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Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington

47
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Benedict Arnold

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An American hero who switched to fight for the British

48
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

49
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Marquis de La Fayette

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French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War

50
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Friedrich von Steuben

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Prussian military officer

51
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Francis Marion

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was a military officer who served in the ARW Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions

52
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guerrilla warfare

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fought by irregulars in fast-moving, small-scale actions against orthodox military

53
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Treaty of Paris 1783

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signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory

55
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Articles of Confederation

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agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.

56
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Shays’ Rebellion

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led to the writing of the new Constitution

57
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The Great Compromise

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saved the Constitutional Convention

58
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The 3/5 Compromise

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outlined the process for states to count slaves as part of the population

59
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison, 1787, to establish a federal government

60
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Bill of Rights

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To. Are up the first 10 amendments

61
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1

st Amendment

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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion

62
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2nd amendment

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Right to bear arms

63
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4

th Amendment

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protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.

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5

th Amendment

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger

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6

th Amendment

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establishes the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land

66
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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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Legislative-congress and makes the laws
Executive-carries out and inforces laws
Judicial-supreme court and interpret the laws

67
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Whiskey Rebellion

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was a tax protest in the United States

68
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Alexander Hamilton

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led the Treasury Department as a trusted member of President Washington’s first Cabinet

69
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Alien and Sedition Acts

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series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent

70
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John Sevier

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frontiersman and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee

71
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Natchez Trace

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Network of trails

72
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Marbury v Madison

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Landmark court case that established judicial review

73
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Judicial review

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review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act

74
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McCulloch v Maryland

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Court case over states rights

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