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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Land religion

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Virginia Company

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Joint stock company

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Jamestown

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Governor-john smith

Tobacco saved Jamestown.

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John Smith

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Governor of Jamestown

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Pocahontas

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Saved john smiths life

Brought peace to religions after marrying John rulfe

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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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Plymouth Colony

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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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Pilgrims came to America on the mayflower

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William Bradford

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Led pilgrims for over 30 years

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Colony based on the Bible

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John Winthrop

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Groups governor of Massachusetts bay colony

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Formed Rhod island,kicked outta Mass. taken to trial

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Salem Witch Trials

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Series of trials and killings due to witchcraft

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William Penn

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Founded Pennsylvania colony, wrote their constitution

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Quakers

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Tolerant of peoples views, were pacifists

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Pacifists

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People who refuse to fight in wars of use force

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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First governor of Georgia

Lower class and English debaters could get a fresh start

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Triangular Trade

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Slaves,crops, manufactured goods were traded between Africa, carabbean, and American colonies

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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First rebellion in the American colonies

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Mayflower Compact

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First governing document of Plymouth colony

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

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Join or die hard is political

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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A New York printer, it 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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Was apart of the 7 years way among the European great powers including Britain and France

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Proclamation of 1763

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Prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachian

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The Sugar Act

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The first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British parliament

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The Stamp Act

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Tax was imposed on all American colonists requiring them to pay tax on every paper they used

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The Boston Massacre

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United the colonists against Britain, lead to the revolutionary war

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The Boston Tea Party

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British we’re mad by the action of the colonists so they needed a punishment

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Designed to punish the colonists

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Patrick Henry

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Became notable for his inflammatory rhetoric against the stamp act of 1765

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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An organization that was created in the 13 American colonies and Samuel Adams was the founder

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John Hancock

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One of Bostons leaders during the crisis that lead to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War 1775

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Getting independents from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies

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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, Philadelphia

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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The British govt decided to make the American colonies pay a large share of debt from the French and Indian war

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Loyalists

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Also Tories, they opposed the revolution and many took up arms against the revels

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Patriots

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Member of the 13 colonies who rebelled against British control during the American revolution

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Started the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Saratoga

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Made a turning point in the Revolutionary War

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Winter at Valley Forge

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Great trial for the American army, and of the 11,000 soldiers stationed there

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Battle of Yorktown

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Cornwallis surrendered to GW

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Benedict Arnold

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An American hero who switched to fight for British

46
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

47
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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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Prussian military officer

49
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Francis Marion

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A military officer who served in the ARW with the continental Army and South Carolina militia commission

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guerrilla warfare

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Fought by in fast moving, small scale actions against orthodox military

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Signed by US and British representatives on sept. 3 1783

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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North west territory provided a method for admitting new states to the union from the territory and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory

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Articles of Confederation

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Agreement among the 13 original states of th USA that served as its first constitution

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Led to writing of the new constitution

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The Great Compromise

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Saved the constitutional convention

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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

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison, 1787, to establish a federal govt

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Bill of Rights

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Our first 10 A

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1st amendment

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Prevents congress from making any law respecting and establishment of religion

60
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2nd Amendment

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Right to bear arms

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4th Amendment

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Protects people to unreasonable searches and seizures by the govt

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5th Amendment

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No person shall beheld answer for a capitol

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6th Amendment

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Establishes the laws and treaty’s of the US made in accordance With it as the supreme law of the land

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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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L-makes laws
E- carries out laws
J-interprets laws

65
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Whiskey Rebellion

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A tax protest in the US

66
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Alexander Hamilton

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Led the Treasury Department as a trusted member of President Washington pa first cabinet

67
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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Series of four laws passed by the US congress in 1798

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John Sevier

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Frontiersman and political and one of the State of Tennessee

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Natchez Trace

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Network of trails

70
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Judicial review

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

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