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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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Found that it was a good area for growing cash crops

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Virginia Company

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Join-stock company that gained a charter to establish Jamestown

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Jamestown

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Tobacco saved this town because there was no gold or silver there, The House of Burgess was the legislative assembly

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John Smith

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Governor of Jamestown for its 1st 2 years

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Pocahontas

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Daughter of Chief Powhatan, married John Rolfe

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John Rolfe

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Learned how to grow tobacco and sold the first crop in 1614, England. Help Virginia grow because of tobacco and married Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Saved Jamestown, cash crop for Maryland and Virginia

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Shown that the settlers were not content with being restricted to the coast

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Plymouth Colony

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Pilgrims Colony

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Pilgrims

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Separatists who came to the colonists for religious freedom, ca,e to America on the Mayflower, their colony was Plymouth

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Mayflower

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Brought Pilgrims to America

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Mayflower Compact

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First agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America

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William Bradford

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Led the Pilgrims for over 30 years, most famous for writing “Of Plymouth Plantation”

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Squanto and Samoset

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The First Thanksgiving, autumn 1621, with their tribe, Wampanoag, showed the Pilgrims how to grow corn, beans, squash; they also showed them how to hunt and fish

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Puritans

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Were protestants who wanted to reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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In 1629 a group of Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Company, and the Mass. Bay Colony was their Colony based on the Bible

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John Winthrop

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Massachusetts Bay Colony governor

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Both taken to trial over disagreeing with Puritans and were kicked out of Massachusetts, formed Rhode Island

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Salem Witch Trials

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a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693

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William Penn

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Founded Pennsylvania, Quaker that wrote their constitution

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Quakers

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Equal in God’s sight, tolerant of other people’s views, pacifists

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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, set up as a buffer state between the stronger English colonies and Spanish attacks and as a place where English debtors and the lower class could get a fresh start

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First Great Awakening

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Religious revival that swept through the colonies

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Triangular Trade

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System in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and the American colonies

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

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All designed by Benjamin Franklin, PRA- a collection of witty sayings, such as “a penny saved is a penny earned”, APOU- designed to help the colonies defend themselves from French, JoD- first political cartoon

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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Accused the governor of New York Weekly Journal and was thrown in jail, found not guilty and this helped lead us to freedom

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Failure of the Albany Plan of Union

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Proclamation of 1763

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Great Britain signed, halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains to appease the NA’s

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The Sugar Act

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Lowered the tax on molasses to try and convince people to stop smuggling in 1764

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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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March 5, 1770, used successfully as a propaganda

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The Boston Tea Party

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Midnight December 16, 1773, done as a response to the Tea Act of 1773

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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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Said “I am not a Virginian, but an American”

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists and fight taxation by the British and was founded by Samuel Adams

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John Hancock

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First to sign DoL

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Paine believes that the colonies should be a refuge from tyrants and prosecutions

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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British made American colonies pay a large share of the war debt from the French and Indian War

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Loyalists

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Colonists still loyal to GB

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Patriots

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GB relied on Hessians to fill their army

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Caused American Revolutionary War

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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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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 the future of mankind

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Friedrich von Steuben

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Drilled troops at valley forge

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Francis Marion

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Swamp Fox, father of guerrilla warfare, helped Patriots defend South

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guerrilla warfare

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Hit and run War technique

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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GB recognized the Us as an independent nation, September 3, 1783

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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

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Articles of Confederation

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Provided a central government where the states gave up little power

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight the government 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 gain more delegates in the House of Representatives

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison, 1787, establish federal government

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Bill of Rights

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1st ten amendments of Constitution

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1st Amendment

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

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2nd Amendment

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Right to own firearms

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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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Due process of law

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6th Amendment

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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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L- makes laws

J- process law

E- carries out

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Whiskey Rebellion

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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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A- allowed President to deport aliens

S- crime to speak or write false criticisms to try and weaken government

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John Sevier

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Founding farther of Tennessee

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Natchez Trace

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Network of trails

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Marbury v Madison

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Landmark court case that established judicial review

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Judicial review

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Court can nullify actions of other branches

74
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McCulloch v Maryland

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States rights

8th History (17 decks)

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