History Flashcards
Cash crop
A crop raised for sale in markets
Apprentice
A person who learns a trade from a skilled crafts person
Middle Passage
A trip took a across the Atlantic Ocean to America
Why were most Africans brought to the United States?
To work as slaves
Explain how propaganda was used to make colonies upset with Britain.
People spread that they were doing things that they shouldn’t have been doing like the Boston Massacre.
The Declaration included Grievances that the colonists had about
Britain
The Declaration included a description of the basic
Rights every person is born with
The Declaration included the reasons that the colonists were forming a
New country
What country did America fight against for independence?
Great Britain
List three details about Valley Forge.
- American soldiers camped here
- The soldiers lacked supplies here
- 2,000 soldiers died
What occurred at Lexington and Concord? What bigger conflict did these events begin?
A battle occurred there called the battle of Lexington and Concord and this took place in the Revolutionary War.
Who was the president of the United States?
George Washington
How many amendments were there to the Constitution?
27
What was the purpose of the bill of rights?
It is the first ten amendments of the constitution and was guaranteeing the rights of the American people
Explain how the system of checks and balances separated power in our federal government.
It gave each branch equal power over each other.
