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Quarter Exam 1 Flashcards

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First chief justice of the Supreme court

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John jay

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Explore the Southern portion of Louisiana territory.

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Zebulon pike

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Prussian general for the patriot army

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Baron von Stuben

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appointed to be the military governor of masseChussets

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sin william Howe

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John adams vice president

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Thomas Jefferson

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brought to trial for criticizing the government

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John Peter Zenger

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sent by Queen Elisabeth I to search for the northwest passage

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Sin martin Frobisher

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discoverd the Cumberland Gap

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Danial boone

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conquera the aztecs

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Hornado Cortes

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wrote the first american dictionary

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Noah Webster

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declared give me Liberty or give me death

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Patrick Henry

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wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England

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willian Blackstone

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wrote commentaries on the laws of england

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william blackstone

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wrote Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania

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John dickenson

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the first Governor of the massachusets bay colony

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John winthrop

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native american who helped the british in the war for independence

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Joseph brant

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founder of log colleage

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william tenant

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first secratary of the treasury and the one responsible for organizing americas economic system

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Alexander Hamilton

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commanded the american forces at the battle of Saratoga

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Horatio Gates

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who said we have met the enemy and they are ours

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Oliver Hazard Perry

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prime minister that passed the stamp act

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George Grenville

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the Leader of a rebellion during the critical period

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Danial shays

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Proposed the albany plan for a union of the colonies

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Benjamin Franklin

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Preached sinners in the hands of an angry God

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Jonathan Edwards

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invented the movabletype printing press

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Johan Gutenberg

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american diplomat who negotiated a treate with Spain

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Thomas Pinkeny

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the year that Christopher columbos discovered the new world

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1492

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the year the spanish armada was defeated

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1588

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the year that Jamestown was founded

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1607

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the year that the massachussets bay coloniy was founded

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1630

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the year the french and indian war started

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1754

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the year the first continental Congress happened

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1774

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the day the war for independance started

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April 19,1775

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the day George Washington claimed trenton from the Hessians

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December 25, 1776

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the year of the constitutional convention

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1787

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the year of the Bill of Rights

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1791

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the year of the election containing candidates from two different Political parties

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1796

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the year of the Louisiana purchase

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1803

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the year of the treaty of Ghent

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1814

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intended tiimplement mercandiism

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The navigation acts

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captured the serious

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Bonhomme Richard

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Gave rise to the middle class in Europe

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crusades

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name for the trend of raising fences or hedges to farm sheep

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Enclosure movement

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Economic system in Europe and the middle ages

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feudalism

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uniquely important trades to new England

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fishing whaling

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statea that the Supreme Court has the authority to strike down unconstitutional Laws

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Marbury V. Madison

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Claimed that states Could nullify federal laws

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Hartford convention

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first written constitution in the present day United States

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fundamental orders of connecticut

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indian tribe that didn’t ally with france during the french and indian war

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Iriquois tribe

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Similar to the articles of confederation

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New Jersy plan

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resolund the issue of the states slave population

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The Three/fifth compromise

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first institution of higher Learning in british NA

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Harvard

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most widely used text book in colonnal america

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New England Primer

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believed that the Law of nature came from reason

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John Locke

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believed that the law of nature came from God

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william blackstone

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Prohibited the colonists from accepting any parlamentary taxes

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No taxation without representation

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Church that the Southern colonies followed

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anglacan church

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intended to bo a haven for english Catholics

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Maryland

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what state apposed the war of 1812

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New England

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aliance of Native american tribes formed about A.D. 1400

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Iriqois Confederacy

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allowed Napolion to manipulate the U.S. into war with Great Britain

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Macon Bill

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Set the precadent for limited representative Government

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Magna Carta

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divided government owned land into townships

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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method of education in the southern colonies

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old-field Schools

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George Washington failed to capture this fort during the french and indian War

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fort Duquesne

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3 branches of Government

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executive Leguslative judicial

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