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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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To seek religious freedom

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Virginia Company

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Joint-stock company that gained a charter to establish Jamestown

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Jamestown

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First permanent settlement

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John Smith

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Pocahontas

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Saved the life of john smith

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John Rolfe

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Married Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Saved Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Rebellion led by Nethanie Bacon

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Plymouth Colony

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The colony of pilgrims

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Pilgrims

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Came to America to seek religious freedom

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Mayflower

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Ship the pilgrims came on

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Mayflower Compact

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the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

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William Bradford

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Wrote the Plymouth plantation

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Squanto and Samoset

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Native Americans that helped the pilgrims

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Puritans

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Protestants that wanted reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Based on the Bible

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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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Kicked out of Mass. and formed Rhode Island

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Salem Witch Trials

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Series of hearings that accused people of whichcraft

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William Penn

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founder of the State of Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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Were tolerant of others peoples views

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Pacifists

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believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Georgia

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First Great Awakening

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religious revitalization movement

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Triangular Trade
Trade between America, England, and Africa
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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
Ben Franklin
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John Peter Zenger Trial
established the first important victory for freedom of the press
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Cause of French and Indian War
superpower competition between Britain and France.
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Proclamation of 1763
No American could settle out west past the line
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The Sugar Act
Lowered the tax on molasses to try to cut down on smuggling
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The Stamp Act
Placed a tax on almost all printed materials
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The Boston Massacre
People were shot and killed during a protest
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The Boston Tea Party
Tea was thrown into the Boston harbor. Used as a way to protest
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
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Patrick Henry
well known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Wikipedia
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government
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John Hancock
He served as president of the Second Continental Congress
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson, it gave America there independence
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Cause of American Revolutionary War
Taxation without representation
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Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British
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Patriots
Patriots were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rebelled against British control
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
First battle of the revolutionary war
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Battle of Saratoga
The turning point of the revolutionary war
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Winter at Valley Forge
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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Benedict Arnold
Trader that left the America to join the British
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
Gorge Washington
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Marquis de La Fayette
French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
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Friedrich von Steuben
Drilled American troops in valley forge
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Francis Marion
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guerrilla warfare
Type of warfare used during the revolutionary war.
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Treaty of Paris 1783
ended the revolutionary war
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory,
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Articles of Confederation
Served as first constitution
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Shays’ Rebellion
armed uprising in Massachusetts
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The Great Compromise
12 states came together at the Constitutional Convention to address national reform.
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The 3/5 Compromise
Counted slaves as 3/5 of a person
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose
1789, James Madison, gov't of the US
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Bill of Rights
First 10 amendments
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1st Amendment
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
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2nd Amendment
right of the people to keep and bear Arms
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4th Amendment
Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause
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5th Amendment
Natural rights cannot be deprived without due process of law
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6th Amendment
The right to a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury
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Three Branches of Government and their purpose
The judiciary is the system of courts, executive the president, and Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives
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Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest
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Alexander Hamilton
one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
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Alien and Sedition Acts
Put into place because the fear of imagrants taking over the country
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John Sevier
John Sevier was an American soldier, frontiersman and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee.
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Natchez Trace
travel corridor used by American Indians, ...
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Marybury V Madison
landmark case by the United States Supreme Court which forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
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Judicial review
All branches can review the others to see if there constructional
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McCulloch v Maryland
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