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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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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

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Trade between America, England, and Africa

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

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Ben Franklin

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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established the first important victory for freedom of the press

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Cause of French and Indian War

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superpower competition between Britain and France.

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Proclamation of 1763

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No American could settle out west past the line

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The Sugar Act

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Lowered the tax on molasses to try to cut down on smuggling

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The Stamp Act

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Placed a tax on almost all printed materials

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The Boston Massacre

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People were shot and killed during a protest

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The Boston Tea Party

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Tea was thrown into the Boston harbor. Used as a way to protest

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament

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Patrick Henry

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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

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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

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He served as president of the Second Continental Congress

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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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

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Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson, it gave America there independence

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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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Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British

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Patriots

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Patriots were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rebelled against British control

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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First battle of the revolutionary war

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Battle of Saratoga

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The turning point of the 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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Benedict Arnold

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Trader that left the America to join the British

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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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Gorge Washington

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Marquis de La Fayette

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

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Friedrich von Steuben

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Drilled American troops in valley forge

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Francis Marion

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guerrilla warfare

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Type of warfare used during the revolutionary war.

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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ended the revolutionary war

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory,

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Articles of Confederation

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Served as first constitution

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Shays’ Rebellion

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armed uprising in Massachusetts

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The Great Compromise

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12 states came together at the Constitutional Convention to address national reform.

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The 3/5 Compromise

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Counted slaves as 3/5 of a person

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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1789, James Madison, gov’t of the US

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Bill of Rights

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First 10 amendments

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1st Amendment

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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

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right of the people to keep and bear 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 cannot be deprived without due process of law

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6th Amendment

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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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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

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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest

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Alexander Hamilton

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one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Put into place because the fear of imagrants taking over the country

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John Sevier

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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

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travel corridor used by American Indians, …

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Marybury V Madison

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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

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All branches can review the others to see if there constructional

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McCulloch v Maryland

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