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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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17
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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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22
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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
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
Was apart of the 7 years way among the European great powers including Britain and France
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Proclamation of 1763
Prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachian
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The Sugar Act
The first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British parliament
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The Stamp Act
Tax was imposed on all American colonists requiring them to pay tax on every paper they used
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The Boston Massacre
United the colonists against Britain, lead to the revolutionary war
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The Boston Tea Party
British we're mad by the action of the colonists so they needed a punishment
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Designed to punish the colonists
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Patrick Henry
Became notable for his inflammatory rhetoric against the stamp act of 1765
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
An organization that was created in the 13 American colonies and Samuel Adams was the founder
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John Hancock
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
Getting independents from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
1776,Thomas Jefferson, to announce and explain separation from Great Britain, Philadelphia
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Cause of American Revolutionary War
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
Also Tories, they opposed the revolution and many took up arms against the revels
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Patriots
Member of the 13 colonies who rebelled against British control during the American revolution
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Started the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Saratoga
Made a turning point in the Revolutionary War
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Winter at Valley Forge
Great trial for the American army, and of the 11,000 soldiers stationed there
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Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis surrendered to GW
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Benedict Arnold
An American hero who switched to fight for British
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
George 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
Prussian military officer
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Francis Marion
A military officer who served in the ARW with the continental Army and South Carolina militia commission
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guerrilla warfare
Fought by in fast moving, small scale actions against orthodox military
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Treaty of Paris 1783
Signed by US and British representatives on sept. 3 1783
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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
Agreement among the 13 original states of th USA that served as its first constitution
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Shays’ Rebellion
Led to writing of the new constitution
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The Great Compromise
Saved the constitutional convention
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The 3/5 Compromise
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
James Madison, 1787, to establish a federal govt
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Bill of Rights
Our first 10 A
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1st amendment
Prevents congress from making any law respecting and establishment of religion
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2nd Amendment
Right to bear arms
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4th Amendment
Protects people to unreasonable searches and seizures by the govt
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5th Amendment
No person shall beheld answer for a capitol
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6th Amendment
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
L-makes laws E- carries out laws J-interprets laws
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Whiskey Rebellion
A tax protest in the US
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Alexander Hamilton
Led the Treasury Department as a trusted member of President Washington pa first cabinet
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Alien and Sedition Acts
Series of four laws passed by the US congress in 1798
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John Sevier
Frontiersman and political and one of the State of Tennessee
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Natchez Trace
Network of trails
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Judicial review
Review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act

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